{"id": "0000039162", "text": "And I would refer you to his own comments about abortion and a woman's right to choose and make decisions about her body with her doctor, which is what any of those women would do.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000039163", "text": "But our focus and the focus of many economists who look at this question of whether we're headed toward a recession is on fundamental economic data, including the number of jobs that have been created, the growth of -- of the GDP.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000039164", "text": "Our export controls with more than 30 other countries have throttled Russia's access to critical technology it needs to maintain its military.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000039165", "text": "Yes, we are a country that promotes democracy, and we certainly allow for peaceful protest in a range of places in the country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039166", "text": "The Chinese have also had record imports last month from China -- from Russia to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039167", "text": "So, some South Korean officials are saying that North Korea is likely to conduct another nuclear test around the time that President Biden goes to South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000039168", "text": "He's been accused of corruption -- MS.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000039169", "text": "Well, we're facing -- we've been battling a historic pandemic, Jeff, I think.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039170", "text": "Also on abortion, Jen, we've seen the President speak out against states that had passed laws that he disagreed with.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000039171", "text": "If Finland and Sweden are successful in their attempts to join NATO, that would put the U.S. on the hook, again, for military -- defending those countries, even potentially with nuclear weapons.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000039162", "text": "And I would refer you to his own comments about abortion and a woman's right to choose and make decisions about her body with her doctor, which is what any of those women would do.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000039163", "text": "But our focus and the focus of many economists who look at this question of whether we're headed toward a recession is on fundamental economic data, including the number of jobs that have been created, the growth of -- of the GDP.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000039164", "text": "Our export controls with more than 30 other countries have throttled Russia's access to critical technology it needs to maintain its military.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000039165", "text": "Yes, we are a country that promotes democracy, and we certainly allow for peaceful protest in a range of places in the country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039166", "text": "The Chinese have also had record imports last month from China -- from Russia to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039167", "text": "So, some South Korean officials are saying that North Korea is likely to conduct another nuclear test around the time that President Biden goes to South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000039168", "text": "He's been accused of corruption -- MS.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000039169", "text": "Well, we're facing -- we've been battling a historic pandemic, Jeff, I think.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039170", "text": "Also on abortion, Jen, we've seen the President speak out against states that had passed laws that he disagreed with.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000039171", "text": "If Finland and Sweden are successful in their attempts to join NATO, that would put the U.S. on the hook, again, for military -- defending those countries, even potentially with nuclear weapons.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000039172", "text": "Jacqui, I don't think anyone doesn't think inflation is an issue.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039173", "text": "As it relates to Russia, you caused this.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039174", "text": "And, you know, that is -- NATO is a defensive alliance.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000039175", "text": "And obviously, now there's high demand because there's a shortage because of this recall, which was done, again, to save babies' lives.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000039176", "text": "Well, there -- because the reason for this shortage is not because there was a supply chain issue in a foreign country.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000039177", "text": "There are also areas, some of which you touched on - of course, depending on where things land with the invitation for diplomatic talks on Iran - Russia is a P5+1 partner.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039178", "text": "But -- but right now, it's a -- it's a reported view of a transaction of a private investor.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000039179", "text": "But while we have certainly condemned the actions of Russia in Ukraine and their -- the actions of a war criminal in invading Ukraine, are -- the biggest obstacle to an Iran deal moving forward is Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039180", "text": "The President's top priority -- and you heard him say this the other day -- is addressing costs and addressing inflation for the American people.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039181", "text": "For the American people, what they can know and understand is we all agree inflation is an issue; we all agree costs are too high.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039182", "text": "And this entire country has paid the price for political leaders who ignored the science when it comes to the pandemic.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000039183", "text": "And we had - of course, Cecilia Rouse was confirmed as the first woman of color to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers with 94 votes.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039184", "text": "Yesterday, North and South Korea actually stood together to denounce a Harvard University professor's article.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000039185", "text": "Because it -- we are, as Kaitlan alluded to earlier, there is still -- we are still in the middle of a war with the pandemic, and he will certainly be clear about that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039186", "text": "Of course, China is a topic on the minds of many leaders in countries, but we expect they will talk about the climate crisis, about economic cooperation, about addressing COVID, a range of issues and discussions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039187", "text": "The four leaders did discuss the challenge posed by China, and they made clear that none of them have any illusions about China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039188", "text": "He vowed a new approach on China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039189", "text": "And to lift up democracy, as the signal -- form of government that can deliver for people and meet the challenges going ahead.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039190", "text": "A number of influential New York lawmakers, including Representatives Nadler and Ocasio-Cortez, have now called for the resignation of Governor Cuomo in light of new allegations of harassment, including one that was referred to law enforcement.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000039191", "text": "Unaccompanied children -- of course, another category -- all unaccompanied children encountered at the border receive a medical screening by contract medical professionals that includes a medical assessment or health-intake interview.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039192", "text": "When it comes to the vaccine -- when it comes to the vaccine, the administration is saying, Hey, get vaccinated as soon as you can with the vaccine that's available to you first.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039193", "text": "And of course, our objective, though, here continues to be to get the COVID pandemic under control, and we don't want the people of New York or any state to be impacted negatively.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039194", "text": "Because, as you know -- as all of you know, big issues here are expediting what's happening at the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039195", "text": "One, the Treasury Secretary said yesterday that a wealth tax is something you haven't decided on yet and can look at.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039196", "text": "Right now, the phase we're in is that demand for the vaccine still outstrips supply.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039197", "text": "We'll continue to work with China, of course, going forward, where it's in the interests of the American people.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039198", "text": "And today, the U.S., EU, and other countries announced new sanctions on China -- MS.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039199", "text": "And what next steps do you think -- China has retaliated against the EU.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039200", "text": "We've shared interests in countering terrorism, ending the conflict in Syria, and deterring malign influence in the region.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000039201", "text": "And so we have to address this epidemic, address the threat of gun violence across many avenues.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000039202", "text": "So, about a year ago, I would say, President Biden -- then-candidate Biden committed to putting a black woman on the Supreme Court.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039203", "text": "He believes in decriminalizing the use of marijuana, but his position has not changed.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000039204", "text": "And to reiterate, as the President did yesterday, as Dr. Walensky did yesterday, that we continue to be at war with the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039205", "text": "Well, China has been a member of the P5+1, an important partner as it related to getting the deal passed to begin with.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039206", "text": "There's a long history of agreement on infrastructure and the need to invest in infrastructure -- the need to take steps to be more competitive with China.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039207", "text": "They support investment in infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039208", "text": "It accounts for -- I think the number is about 1 percent of our GDP, so it certainly is a significant attempt to address that.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000039209", "text": "So, on Ukraine -- we talked about this on Friday -- but the State Department has now asked Russia to explain these provocations.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039210", "text": "And so, of course, we're happy to hear proposals, but, you know, I think this -- the definition of infrastructure we have a disagreement about.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039211", "text": "On Friday, in the President's remarks in the State Dining Room, he said, I won't raise a penny tax on a family making less than $400, 000 a year.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039212", "text": "President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, he has said publicly that that country needs to join NATO to avoid a war in the Donbass region with Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039213", "text": "Well, one, that has long been the aspiration of Ukraine and one that has been raised in a range of conversations with U.S. officials over the course of several years.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039214", "text": "But that's a decision for NATO to make, and we'll continue to be, you know, recipients of their interests.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000039215", "text": "On infrastructure, some Republicans have quibbled with the way infrastructure should be defined in the bill.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039216", "text": "He has also consistently, over the course of the last decade, spoken out about his concerns about the war, and that has consistently been his view -- even back when he was Vice President and it wasn't aligned with everybody else in the administration.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039217", "text": "On Iran, the foreign minister is vowing revenge against Israel for its alleged attack on its nuclear facilities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039218", "text": "The Secretary of State said that there will be consequences if Russia continues its escalation on the border.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039219", "text": "But, again, Iran must resume compliance with a significant -- with the significant nuclear constraints under the deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039220", "text": "Again, the first step here is to Iran -- is for Iran to comply with the significant nuclear constraints under the deal, but I am certain we will continue to discuss this issue in here and at the State Department and other parts of government.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039221", "text": "In terms of specific prioritization of the vaccine, I would point you to the Department of Defense and leaders over there to speak to that more specifically.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039222", "text": "Republican senators have criticized attaching the withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan to September 11th.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039223", "text": "I will remind everyone that he has been someone who has long viewed our -- the -- he opposed the surge in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039224", "text": "And if I could ask just a question on the Russia sanctions today -- in a statement, the White House noted reports that Russia had encouraged Taliban attacks against U.S. coalition personnel in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039225", "text": "This information really puts the burden on Russia and the Russian government to explain their engagement here.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039226", "text": "Q Jen, the U.S. has been leveling sanctions on Russia for its behavior for years, as you know well.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039227", "text": "The -- his most important focus here -- or his line in the sand -- is the vital imperative of investing in infrastructure and modernizing our infrastructure, creating jobs for the American people.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039228", "text": "He has described this as an epidemic -- gun violence in this country.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000039229", "text": "Well, I think the President's view is that Russia is on the outside of the global community in many respects, at this point in time.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039230", "text": "India is facing a critical shortage of raw materials necessary to make vaccines.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000039231", "text": "And officials there are urging the U.S. to lift the U.S. embargo of exporting those raw materials.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000039232", "text": "And he said that he now supports legalizing marijuana on a national level.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000039233", "text": "He also supports legalizing medicinal marijuana.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000039234", "text": "Some people in prison on marijuana charges are asking President Biden to keep his campaign promise and release them.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039235", "text": "Following up a little bit on a question earlier -- President Biden still opposes the legalization of marijuana.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000039236", "text": "And then, on a related note, yesterday the House passed the SAFE Banking Act, which is meant to -- in states where cannabis is legal -- let businesses use the banking system legally there.", "issue": "cannabis"}
{"id": "0000039237", "text": "In Iowa, for instance, they're now declining a new shipment of vaccine because the demand isn't there.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039238", "text": "And, Jen, there were some reports out of Iran over the week -- over the weekend about a potential deal for the release of some U.S. hostages there.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039239", "text": "This is a significant investment, a historic investment that he's proposing, but we're less than, I know, 100 -- less than 107 days, I know we are, into the administration.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039240", "text": "If confirmed, she would be the first woman confirmed to lead the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039241", "text": "So, we certainly respect and value that, but it is still our view -- is that -- that science is the North Star.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039242", "text": "And part of the reason some of these lawmakers say that is, is because China is not cooperating right now.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039243", "text": "He remains committed to continuing to make healthcare more affordable and more accessible for Americans.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000039244", "text": "As we all know, the pandemic and its economic impact significantly increased the risks of abuse for victims of domestic violence and made it much harder for them to seek safety and support.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039245", "text": "But -- so is there any amount of casualties from COVID in this country that would make you want to not wait for an international effort and just do it as a U.S.-led -- MS.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039246", "text": "I mean, despite Russia's announced withdrawal, a senior Ukrainian official told Reuters earlier that Russia still had about 100, 000 troops near the border and in Crimea.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039247", "text": "During the campaign, Biden promised to host a summit for democracy during the first year of his presidency.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039248", "text": "As the President prepares for the summit with leaders of the NATO, some reports surfaced regarding spying on -- on Germany.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000039249", "text": "And certainly, his approach and his priority is making a historic investment in infrastructure, creating millions of jobs, and seeing how we can do that as quickly as possible.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039250", "text": "As we do every day in democracy in action happening here, we assess what the right next step is.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039251", "text": "Today, the Biden-Harris administration has launched Child Tax Credit Awareness Day to educate the public and encourage non-filers to sign up for the largest Child Tax Credit in history.", "issue": "educate"}
{"id": "0000039252", "text": "And has a red line about the gas tax and raising taxes on individuals making less than $400, 000 a year.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039253", "text": "Well, we don't currently have diplomatic relations with Iran or any plans to meet with the lead- -- at the leader level, so it's unclear that anything has actually changed on that front.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039254", "text": "The important case that we are going to continue to make is that Iran is not a good actor in the world on a range of issues, whether it's human rights or their engagement in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039255", "text": "And you have, in the past, defended the decision not to visit the border by anyone, really, in the -- by President Biden or Vice President Harris.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039256", "text": "But the most important topics on the Ameri- -- minds of the American people are COVID and the economy, and we're certainly moving forward on all fronts.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039257", "text": "On crime, I just wanted to ask quickly if you could give us any details about who helped shape the President's crime plan.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000039258", "text": "They will be relocated to a location outside of Afghanistan before we complete our military drawdown, by September, in order to complete the visa application process.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039259", "text": "Well, one, we could pass a federal minimum wage, which would represent a higher wage than it seems the firefighters are getting.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000039260", "text": "And a lot of studies show that evictions cause -- I'm sorry, evictions make the threat of COVID even worse, especially when it comes to Black and brown communities.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039261", "text": "China has responded to that -- to the government of Beijing -- calling on the United States to stop any form of official exchanges with Taiwan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039262", "text": "Taiwan is a leading democracy and major economy and a security partner.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039263", "text": "And is this an example of the systemic racism that he promised to heal? MS.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000039264", "text": "Afghan military leaders say the U.S. military left the Air Force base with no warning in the middle of night.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039265", "text": "And, on Afghanistan, the President promised that the United States would continue to provide civilian and humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039266", "text": "If the Russian government cannot or will not act against criminal actors residing in Russia, we will act.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039267", "text": "It's a 20-year war that has not been won militarily.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039268", "text": "We did exactly what we intended to do, and certainly that is something, thanks to the leadership of our military, we have achieved.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039269", "text": "Well, first, I would say, critical infrastructure, broadly speaking, would perhaps take out an entire se- -- economic sector in the country.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039270", "text": "The administration and the President has, in some way, included in the calculus on Afghanistan the American public's view that it's time to bring U.S. forces home.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039271", "text": "He does still believe and support the people of Afghanistan, the future of the government of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039272", "text": "Well, I would say, first, that rise in crime has been an issue in communities across from the country for 18 months, if not more.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000039273", "text": "If the attack is not on critical infrastructure, we're not going to take action.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039274", "text": "And on Afghanistan, the Taliban has captured a key border crossing with Iran today -- a move that's designed to choke the Kabul government economically.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039275", "text": "Certainly, any effort to that prevents accurate information -- information based on di- -- data, on science as it relates to the COVID-19 vaccine or any other vaccine is of concern to the federal government.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039276", "text": "So those are some of the steps that we think could be constructive for public health, for public information, for public -- and, you know, the right of the public to know.", "issue": "public health"}
{"id": "0000039277", "text": "It means that it protects from death; it protects from serious illness; it protects, for the most part, from hospitalization.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000039278", "text": "And this is the first time NATO has condemned PRC cyber activities.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000039279", "text": "But let me just note that we're not in a war or a battle with Facebook; we're in a battle with the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039280", "text": "Obviously, the President kind of addressed inflation head on today.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039281", "text": "We are still battling the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039282", "text": "We also know that unemployment is down, economic growth is up, job creation is up, wages are up, and we can assure people we are still at war with the virus, even as we've seen progress made over the last several months.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000039283", "text": "Well, I think it's a -- as I, kind of, started off in response to Josh, I would just go back to the point that our fight is not with one social media platform; it is with the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039284", "text": "It is about fighting a virus that is still killing thousands of people.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039285", "text": "What our role is and what we are going to continue to do is make the vaccine available.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039286", "text": "Now that daily doses administered of the vaccine are down below 300, 000 for the first time since December, we've heard talk about maybe updating the mask guidance.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039287", "text": "China just announced sanctions -- MS. Yeah. against six individuals and an entity in the U.S. in retaliation of sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on Chinese officials over Hong Kong.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039288", "text": "But the most important thing is that people are, across the country, largely protected from serious illness if they're vaccinated.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000039289", "text": "We continue to be at war with a virus and evolving pandemic.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039290", "text": "Our responsibility here is to always lead with the science and always lead with the advice of health and medical experts.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039291", "text": "So I think that is a reflection of the science and medical experts conveying we've made enough progress.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039292", "text": "And that's why the deal makes the largest investment in clean drinking water in American history, replacing all the nation's lead pipes and service lines, from rural towns to struggling cities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039293", "text": "The deal invests in water infrastructure across America, including in Tribal nations and disadvantaged communities that need it most.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039294", "text": "President Biden hasn't called for reparations from China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039295", "text": "And fighting a pandemic and communicating about it is a challenge.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039296", "text": "But they are not -- they're currently in the military, but they are not people who fit the description or the criteria for getting assistance.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039297", "text": "I think we've been very clear, Mona, that U.S. citizens, their family members -- some of those are dual nationals -- many of them who are left are dual nationals; some of them may have lived their whole lives in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039298", "text": "And, you know, whether you call it a recognition or not, you're basically working alongside Taliban authorities in Afghanistan long-term.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039299", "text": "The G20 -- some members of the G20 are pushing for a special meeting on Afghanistan -- Italy, India.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039300", "text": "And then, the President in the Oval Office talked about how if diplomacy fails with Iran, he would be willing to look at other options.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039301", "text": "Now, of course, ensuring that people are treated humanely as they are coming to the United States, they have access to food and to water, is something we are committed to.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000039302", "text": "The members of the military have to get quite close to individuals they're screening.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039303", "text": "Well, again, I think the military and the national security team that serves the President has enormous capabilities and capacities and is pursuing a range of missions at the same time.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039304", "text": "Obviously, the one they are undertaking in Afghanistan is one that is front and center in the news right now.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039305", "text": "It's devastating for the leaders of the military, as many times as it has happened.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039306", "text": "The drone strike that the United States conducted appears, according to family members in Afghanistan, to have killed 7 children, as part of 10 people.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039307", "text": "On Afghanistan, last month, the administration shared that the objective was to get individuals who are eligible relocated out of Afghanistan in advance of the U.S. troop withdrawal at the end of August.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039308", "text": "This is also an eight-year investment to make us more competitive.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039309", "text": "One, we've been at war -- at war in Afghanistan for 20 years, and it is far -- long past time to bring troops home.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039310", "text": "Team Biden's war on DeSantis is all about kneecapping a successful governor -- a GOP governor.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039311", "text": "And any health and medical expert -- whether it's Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, Dr. Walensky -- will tell you that vaccination is very effective in protecting from hospitalization and death and serious illness.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000039312", "text": "Obviously, in Texas, with the law with regard to abortion, the President said in a statement he will protect and defend Roe vs. Wade.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000039313", "text": "Well, first of all, we always lead with science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039314", "text": "Those are steps that aspirant countries like Ukraine need to take in order to meet NATO standards for memberships.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039315", "text": "On Ukraine, when the President was in Brussels, he was asked about Ukraine getting into the NATO Membership Action Plan and, at the time, he said, school is out on that question.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039316", "text": "Because the hurricane is hitting a region that is a key center of the nation's oil production and refining infrastructure, this waiver should help reduce the risk of gasoline shortages or price increases stemming from the hurricane.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039317", "text": "The military gave their assessment that they needed 120 days to wind down our presence in Afghanistan, so we abided by that.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039318", "text": "It's a war he has long felt we needed to depart from.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039319", "text": "So the President's view -- position is that if Iran comes back into full --", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039320", "text": "So -- but at this point in time, our focus is really on getting the pandemic under control, and we'll leave that decision up to Congress.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039321", "text": "On Afghanistan, I'm curious if there's been any offers of resignation from anyone in the chain of command or anyone involved in the decisions with the evacuation.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039322", "text": "In the U.S., there's an abundance of vaccine, but up to 80 million people have refused to receive them.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039323", "text": "Like, there's so much vaccine available here, but people are refusing to take them.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039324", "text": "And the body of science produced by this research demonstrates that the bat coronavirus sequences published from that work NIH supported were not COVID -- the strain, COVID-2 strain.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039325", "text": "They're meant to modernize our infrastructure, put people back to work over the long term, and make us more competitive over the long term.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039326", "text": "And obviously, no decisions have been made, but clearly COVID is our number-one priority, and they'll continue to work towards what they think the best options are.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039327", "text": "Well, certainly, in any meeting, the National Security Advisor and any high-level representatives from the United States would advocate for democracy, for free elections -- for free and fair elections around the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039328", "text": "Well, one, the President and Secretary agree -- and they have agreed -- that making sure our military is safe and prepared is -- is of utmost importance.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039329", "text": "If the FDA -- which we don't control their timeline, as you all well know -- is not approve of vaccine by then, that timeline stands.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039330", "text": "Certainly, the President has also, at the same time, expressed concern about gerrymandering and about steps taken that reduce our -- our democracy, our democratic values across the country.", "issue": "gerrymandering"}
{"id": "0000039331", "text": "A question about the lawmakers who traveled to Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039332", "text": "Maybe they've spent their entire lives in Afghanistan and they have not yet made the decision to depart.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039333", "text": "And for months, the Department has been telling Americans to leave Afghanistan for their own safety.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039334", "text": "Embassies all over the world are supporting phone banking, text banking, and e-mail efforts.", "issue": "banking"}
{"id": "0000039335", "text": "A U.S. Central Command internal e-mail described the housing for thousands of evacuees as, quote, awash with loose feces and urine and a rat infestation, as a life-threatening humanitarian disaster.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000039336", "text": "Yesterday, the Biden administration announced sanctions against the military in Eritrea for human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Tigray region.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039337", "text": "Certainly lowering the price of prescription drugs is a top priority to the President.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000039338", "text": "As you know, part of their -- part of their issue is that there was a purchase of technology from -- that Australia had made with the French.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000039339", "text": "First, what we've said from the beginning, as it relates to Afghanistan, is the President asked his team to present to him clear-eyed assessment, candid advice on the path forward.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039340", "text": "You said AUKUS isn't about any one country; officials have been pretty clear this is about China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039341", "text": "As individuals come across the border and -- they are both assessed for whether they have any symptoms.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039342", "text": "Some of the Haitian migrants at the border told VOA that they were treated worse than their Spanish-speaking counterparts.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039343", "text": "And then just secondly -- Haitian Americans say that this mass deportation and this treatment of people at the border is -- is the President going back on campaign promises to their community.", "issue": "deportation"}
{"id": "0000039344", "text": "Obviously, any circumstance where individuals are not treated humanely, whether they are coming to our border or not, is not in line with the Biden administration policies.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039345", "text": "There has also been a view that we were handling our immigration policy in a different way than we were handling for other migrants across -- who were coming across the border; that's not true.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039346", "text": "He didn't raise his concerns about migration privately.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000039347", "text": "Part of that has been relying on local messengers, part of that has been making the vaccine broadly accessible to everybody in the country, making it as easy as humanly possible to get vaccinated.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039348", "text": "As the President has said many times, this is an administration that will lead with science and the guidance of our health and medical team.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039349", "text": "And then, talking about today, his concern that China could eat our lunch.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039350", "text": "Just a few days after you criticized from this podium Nord Stream 2, Russia resumed construction of the pipeline, and German government continues to defend the project.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039351", "text": "And in our engagements -- his engagements and engagements at all levels -- with our European partners, certainly the issue of coordination and working together, as it relates to the problematic actions of Russia, is a topic of conversation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039352", "text": "Well, first of all, Peter, I think the situation at the border is the result of a broken system.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039353", "text": "And people are still under the threat of COVID; that is concerning to a lot of people.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039354", "text": "Even as they approve of the President's handling of COVID, that's still something impacting people people's lives.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039355", "text": "In New York State, there's an anticipated shortage of healthcare workers due to tens of thousands of them failing to comply with strict state vaccine mandates.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000039356", "text": "So, taking you back in time to Friday, as President Biden was mid-meeting with Prime Minister Modi, the Prime Minister of Pakistan took to the stage at the U.N. and delivered some scathing criticism of the U.S.'s actions in Afghanistan.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000039357", "text": "It would also need -- it would also mean war with the Taliban, and it would also mean the potential loss of casualties.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039358", "text": "And we feel this is a part of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039359", "text": "He did not want to go back at war with the Taliban.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039360", "text": "So, if you are concerned about inflation, that's exactly a reason you should support these packages.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039361", "text": "Well, I mean, for example, Afghanistan would have been the maintaining of the former President's decision to withdraw troops.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039362", "text": "On Afghanistan, the former President struck a deal without the Afghan government that, we heard the military convey yesterday, led to the demoralization of the Afghan Security Forces and the Afghan government, where he also released 5, 000 Taliban fighters into Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039363", "text": "And the President promised to defend democracy around the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039364", "text": "He also feels that disagreement, debate, litigating components of numbers or how much is going to get a little more than the other -- that's democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039365", "text": "And I think there's a misunderstanding of how democracy and policymaking works when you suggest otherwise.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039366", "text": "And a couple of concerns that they had were getting in complaints, accusations of human rights violations at the border, including people being refused medical attention.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039367", "text": "And on the testing question that had come up, on rapid tests, this $1 billion investment will quadruple the tests by December, in addition to everything else from the past couple of weeks.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039368", "text": "In June, he issued a memorandum establishing fighting corruption as a core national security -- a core national security interest.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000039369", "text": "Fauci has indicated that in the time of COVID, people should be willing to give up personal choice or personal civil liberties for the greater good.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039370", "text": "For instance, a month ago, President Biden was discussing corruption issues with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and now Mr. Zelenskyy is reportedly involved in this offshore scandal.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039371", "text": "The -- one of the biggest issues in the global supply chain is also COVID and the fact that COVID continues to be a threat to supply chains that are happening globally.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039372", "text": "Jen, what does the President say to -- inflation is a big issue right now for Americans from coast to coast -- MS.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039373", "text": "But this committee is investigating a dark day in our democracy -- an attempt to undermine our Constitution and democratic processes by the former President -- and that context, I think, is important here too.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039374", "text": "We're still battling COVID, and a lot of people thought we'd be through it, including us.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039375", "text": "It doesn't mean this isn't hard and challenging -- of course it is; we're in the middle of a global pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039376", "text": "It's a bad deal because it divides Europe, it exposes Ukraine and Central Europe to Russia -- Russian manipulation, and because it goes against Europe's own stated energy and security goals.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039377", "text": "And it was a state that -- where people have been impacted by the pandemic; they've been impacted by the economic downturn.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039378", "text": "The other question I have is about COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039379", "text": "Even as the sort of work to fight back against COVID proceeded, people -- it was crystal clear that things were not improving on supply chain.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039380", "text": "And our commitment to the defense of the Republic of Korea and Japan remains ironclad.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000039381", "text": "Frankly, the Department of Defense can also give you the up-to-date statistics on members of the military; I believe it's over 90 percent, but I would point you to them for statistics.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039382", "text": "We'll do that by creating a global minimum tax, something the United States has been the global leader in bringing together countries around the world.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039383", "text": "So, American and Southwest CEOs have made clear this will -- their workers will not be -- there won't be a labor shortage.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000039384", "text": "The attack on a military outpost in southern Syria this week did not result in any American casualties, but the U.S. military considers it to be a serious but failed attempt to take American lives.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039385", "text": "This is -- would be a historic investment and something that would make an enormous -- have enormous impact on addressing these issues.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039386", "text": "But I will tell you the President supports the billionaire tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039387", "text": "On the billionaires' tax, Senator Manchin has expressed concerns that it's too targeted.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039388", "text": "And, of course, building on making healthcare more affordable and accessible is something that is a continuation of the historic work that happened when the President was Vice President, but vitally important as well.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000039389", "text": "The President, as you said, supports the billionaire tax, from my understanding.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039390", "text": "As I said a little bit earlier, he supports the billionaire tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039391", "text": "And I would also note that on the oil shortage, what we're working to do -- and our focus right now is on supporting the Haitian National Police.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000039392", "text": "We've also held discussions with Russian officials about Ukraine and U.S.-Russian relations generally.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039393", "text": "Well, we, here in the federal government, are guided by science and our country's public health officials who are constantly reviewing the data to make their own independent, evidence-based decisions.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039394", "text": "Blinken's comments about concern about Russia rehashing the 2014 invasion and then Jake Sullivan underscoring the commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039395", "text": "And in the weeks and months that follow, billions of dollars of additional money will be flowing to improve our critical port infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039396", "text": "Some industries, in terms of some short-term ind- -- industries that have short-term workers or seasonal workers, COVID is an issue there and continuing to address COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039397", "text": "Well, certainly the President will express areas where he feels China should be taking additional action, should be behaving in a different manner that is more aligned with the rules of the road and the expectations of the United States and the global community.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039398", "text": "That has led to inflation; that has led to supply chain issues.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039399", "text": "That, we know, is the root cause of inflation and the price increases we're seeing for a range of reasons.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039400", "text": "We're seeing housing and the cost of rent as a major driver of costs for families across the country.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000039401", "text": "No one is denying that inflation and any element of rising costs is an issue for the American people.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039402", "text": "Usually, prices at the pump correspond to movements in the price of unfinished gasoline, which is the main ingredient in the gas people buy at stations.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000039403", "text": "I think the two main areas would be trade and immigration.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000039404", "text": "We should have ambassadors at posts around Europe -- all around Europe -- at a time where ensuring we are supporting NATO is a pivotal message to send to Russia and other countries around the world.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039405", "text": "The President has not named anyone to the key ambassadorships in Ukraine and in Hungary right now.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039406", "text": "More than 30 nations have now sent security assistance to Ukraine, thanks in part to the leadership of the President and our diplomacy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039407", "text": "Russia says that an apparent attack by Ukraine on one of its fuel depots is making it harder for Russia to stay engaged in the talks to end the war.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039408", "text": "We've seen the people of Ukraine fight valiantly in the face of unprovoked Russian brutality, but there is one aggressor here, and that is President Putin and the Russian military at his direction.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039409", "text": "What I would just reiterate again is that this is a war of aggression by the Russian leadership, by President Putin that has left millions of people displaced, homeless; has targeted civilians, hospitals, and other innocent people across Ukraine.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039410", "text": "So, the United States and members of the international community have, of course, repeatedly warned about the potential for Russia to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine and that Moscow is possibly planning a false-flag operation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039411", "text": "In an effort to assist our Ukrainian partners, the U.S. government is providing the government of Ukraine with lifesaving equipment and supplies that could be deployed in the event of Russia -- Russian use of a chemical and biological weapon against Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039412", "text": "UI has served a very important role through this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039413", "text": "And employment in all major industries either grew or held steady.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000039414", "text": "He supports legislation that would expand access to healthcare and benefits for veterans affected by these exposures during military service, and he was encouraged by the passage of a bipartisan bill in the House just yesterday.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000039415", "text": "Our -- there isn't a strategic interest in reducing global oil supply because that will ri- -- that will increase the price of barrels of oil and increase gas prices.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000039416", "text": "Ukraine asked for foreign reinforcements.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039417", "text": "If we're going to fight a global pandemic, we have to have a global approach.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039418", "text": "But -- but particularly in a pandemic with an infectious disease, it's really important that people be able to access healthcare services, get the care they need.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039419", "text": "That obviously comes, you know, as Russia has said that such assistance would lead to a nuclear war.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039420", "text": "And since the Trump administration ceased U.S. participation in the deal, Iran has rapidly accelerated its nuclear program and reduced cooperation with international inspectors in non-performance of Iran nuclear deal commitments.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039421", "text": "Long-term unemployment has risen - this is a great concern of the administration - reflecting the duration of the economic crisis and the fact that the virus was unconstrained during most of last year.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000039422", "text": "The elevation in long-term unemployment is especially salient since benefits for these workers will expire soon without further congressional action.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000039423", "text": "There's going to be a principals meeting on Iran today.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039424", "text": "Infrastructure is a part of that, and it's something he's had a long commitment to.", "issue": "Infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039425", "text": "But certainly infrastructure is one of the areas where he feels there's opportunity for bipartisan support and for Democrats and Republicans to work together.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039426", "text": "We'll continue to provide defensive assistance to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039427", "text": "We can do that through providing defensive assistance to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039428", "text": "In terms of the threats you're -- you're touching on, that was a briefing from the military, so I'd point you to them.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039429", "text": "The President of Ukraine on Saturday urged -- called on the United States and its Allies to impose the toughest sanctions.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039430", "text": "He explicitly threatened war unless his extreme demands were met.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039431", "text": "He gave an entire speech selling a war to the Russian people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039432", "text": "The last time Jake Sullivan was here, he said that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would lead to U.S. sanctions, warning that that would necessarily make Moscow more beholden to Beijing.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039433", "text": "These impacts over time will translate into higher inflation, higher interest rates, lower purchasing power, lower investment, lower productive capacity, lower growth, and lower living standards in Russia.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039434", "text": "But Putin's war of choice has required that we do what we said and to ensure this will be a strategic failure.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039435", "text": "This is the one area -- this is the one area where Russia has systemic importance in the global economy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039436", "text": "Russia is taking over parts of Ukraine -- major parts of Ukraine as we speak.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039437", "text": "Right now, we're imposing severe consequences on Russia for its decisions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039438", "text": "Jen, there are a number of protests within Russia itself.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039439", "text": "Some of the activity that we've seen today in Ukraine -- some of the clashes have been in and around Chernobyl.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039440", "text": "So they cannot cover what the impact of the sanctions that have been announced in coordination with Europe would -- how they would impact Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039441", "text": "It was his decision to go to war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039442", "text": "So, even as we have all been understandably focused on the conflict in Ukraine, the President has been very hard at work on a range of issues that are vital to the American people.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039443", "text": "He is the leader of Ukraine, of gov- -- the President of Ukraine, but I'm not going to get into security steps.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039444", "text": "The President mentioned that, you know, China will face repercussions for human rights abuses against Uyghurs and in Hong Kong and Taiwan, et cetera.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039445", "text": "On the issue of teachers, you're making it clear that a vaccination isn't a must, as the CDC recommends, but that you hope that states prioritize this.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000039446", "text": "This is a vaccine that's being provided for free to the states by the federal government.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039447", "text": "Infrastructure is certainly an issue he's had a long passion for.", "issue": "Infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039448", "text": "What our effort and what the focus of the federal government is, is to look for every resource, every lever at our disposal to ensure women in Texas have the ability to seek healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000039449", "text": "He believes that it's up to a woman to make those decisions and up to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039450", "text": "To be clear, there is no certainty there will be a cyber incident on critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039451", "text": "The majority of our critical infrastructure, as you know, is owned and operated by the private sector.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039452", "text": "The United States is not seeking confrontation with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039453", "text": "But he has also said that if Russia conducts disruptive cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, we will be prepared to respond.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039454", "text": "But the reason I'm here is because critical infrastructure -- power, water, many hospitals -- in the United States are owned by the private sector.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039455", "text": "It remains a high priority for Russia because it would provide President Putin with a land bridge to Crimea and cut off Ukrainian forces there from the rest of the country, provide the Russians with a new port.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039456", "text": "So, the President has warned that China would face costs if it decided to help Russia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039457", "text": "It will be a peacekeeping force, they would be in Ukraine, and they would be able to defend themselves.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039458", "text": "In May, we saw employment increase by 103, 000 in state and local education.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000039459", "text": "But we have a responsibility during a global pandemic, which we're still fighting every day, to rely on the advice and guidance of our medical experts.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039460", "text": "On the subject of infrastructure, there are a number of Republicans on the Hill who have raised concerns about the idea of giving the IRS $40 billion to basically crack down on tax cheats.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039461", "text": "India and the United States are -- have two of the highest -- or have two of the highest challenges as it relates to fighting the COVID pandemic, so we also take that into account.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039462", "text": "Well, certainly, the government - across the government, everyone is going to play a role in COVID, and addressing COVID and getting the pandemic under control.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039463", "text": "I mean, we're at war with the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039464", "text": "This pandemic has shifted and changed through the Delta variant and now the Omicron variant, but our commitment, and the commitment of the entire federal family, has not changed.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039465", "text": "This is the single-largest dedicated bridge investment since the construction of the Interstate Highway System, and provides more than $27 billion to states and Tribal transportation facilities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039466", "text": "Again, it's not about that; it's about Russia deciding what path they're going to take.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039467", "text": "I think the message is that employment and our labor market are really important ways in which people can seek and find economic opportunity and prosperity.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000039468", "text": "The U.S. and European allies have pledged severe harm on Russia if it escalates the situation in Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039469", "text": "I think the average American would find inflation more manageable if wages were also going up.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039470", "text": "We have made clear to Iran that the only path out of sanctions is through nuclear compliance.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039471", "text": "Ukraine has asked to become a member of the NATO Alliance and they've put that out for several years.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039472", "text": "And he certainly supports the aspiration of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039473", "text": "There are -- he certainly supports the aspiration of Ukraine, as he supports the aspiration of a range of countries, again, to join security alliances around the world.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039474", "text": "You touched on this, Zolan, a little bit, but the infrastructure to support refugee resettlement was decimated by the prior administration.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039475", "text": "As you know, NATO is a defensive alliance and they don't have aggressive intent toward Russia.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000039476", "text": "They've conveyed that, leaders of NATO have conveyed that.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000039477", "text": "The United States has been a leader in holding China accountable, as it relates to human rights abuses, the -- what we've seen in Xinjiang, which, again, the President and we have referred to as a genocide.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039478", "text": "In addition, more than 13, 000 National Guard members have been activated in 48 states to support vaccination, testing, and clinical care.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000039479", "text": "The reason this was included in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act is because we need to address the shortage of drivers which is impacting, of course, the transferring of goods and then the cost of goods on the shelves.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000039480", "text": "On the issue of food insecurity, which is a growing crisis in America - of hunger - nearly 30 million Americans last week said that they didn't have enough food to put on the table.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000039481", "text": "The lack of information and the lack - the disinformation at times about how people can get the vaccine, when they can get the vaccine, and who's eligible has created a great deal of confusion, as you all know.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039482", "text": "And we obviously have - still have a vital interest in deterring North Korea - as does Japan, of course.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000039483", "text": "Just a quick one on - on Inauguration Day, China sanctioned a number of outgoing Trump administration officials.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039484", "text": "So our priority is not to get access for Goldman Sachs in China; our priority is to make sure that we are dealing with China's trade abuses that are harming American jobs and American workers in the United States.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039485", "text": "Jen, one of the biggest criticisms of President Trump's approach to handling the coronavirus was that the administration didn't provide clear guidance to states about when they should shut down, when they should reopen.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000039486", "text": "He and the other leaders will endorse a global minimum tax of at least 15 percent, as you saw coming out of the G7 Finance Ministers Meeting a few days ago.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039487", "text": "At the U.S.-EU summit, the President and European Union leaders will focus on aligning our approaches to trade and technology so that democracies and not anyone else -- not China or other autocracies -- are writing the rules for trade and technology for the 21st century.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000039488", "text": "China has basically already said they think their part in an international investigation is done.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039489", "text": "On the issue of healthcare, you mentioned the video of President Obama and President Biden over the weekend.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000039490", "text": "Former officials from multiple administrations -- the Obama administration, the Bush administration -- have said they are certain Afghanistan will become a safe haven for terrorists.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039491", "text": "We have to deal with the threat of terrorism across the Islamic Maghreb.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000039492", "text": "For example, if the People's Republic of China attacks Taiwan, the Chinese can argue that it is a civil war among the Chinese.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039493", "text": "They were touting U.S. humiliation in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039494", "text": "In a warning to Taiwan and other allies, the U.S. won't come to help if war breaks out.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039495", "text": "The National Security Advisor said, When a civil war comes to an end with an opposing force -- force marching on the ground, there's going to be scenes of chaos.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039496", "text": "When Americans have come to Afghanistan over the years, we asked them to register with the embassy.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039497", "text": "But no operation like this, no evacuation from a capital that has fallen in a civil war could unfold without those images.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039498", "text": "The President has criticized his predecessor, he's criticized the Afghan army and the Afghan government for all of their failures.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000039499", "text": "I know it's difficult for the United States too -- just as a woman, as a kind woman, that Afghan people really trust you.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039500", "text": "I would point out that neither China nor Russia will be attending the summit in person at the leader level -- largely, it seems, due to COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000039501", "text": "I think the characterization on Russia and China -- I would take a little bit of issue with that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039502", "text": "Indeed there was the delivery of defensive assistance to Ukraine just very recently, and that will continue.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039503", "text": "As I just pointed out in response to an earlier question, we are continuing to deliver defensive materiel assistance to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039504", "text": "Some observers have described a nightmare scenario where President Putin invades Ukraine and also, simultaneously, President Xi uses force to reunify Taiwan with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039505", "text": "But there is agreement about the need to impose strong and significant economic consequences if Russia were to invade -- invade Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039506", "text": "The way we see our relationship with Russia is that the President and leaders in this administration are going to be direct and clear where we have concerns, as the President was on this call.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039507", "text": "Our objective, a large portion of this call, as Jake Sullivan just outlined, was on Ukraine and our concerns about the military buildup on the border and our concerns about the bellicose rhetoric.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039508", "text": "We will know if Russia and President Putin decides to invade Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039509", "text": "Of course, the military does contingency planning for a range of potential scenarios in order to keep the U.S. personnel safe.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039510", "text": "He also pledged to stand up for democracy and pledged to stand up for countries like Ukraine and their territorial integrity.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039511", "text": "But specifically on Ukraine, I mean, you're talking about the possibility of serious consequences -- I mean, economic and otherwise.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039512", "text": "And we continue to support Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in the defense of their sovereignty and territorial integrity.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039513", "text": "On Russia and Ukraine, Secretary Blinken said at the start of the week that he didn't expect any major breakthroughs this week but that one positive outcome could obviously be a de-escalation of tensions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039514", "text": "This administration has used sanctions without success to compel China to release the concentration camp inmates in Xinjiang.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039515", "text": "We have continued to make that clear to Russia in close coordination with our European allies and partners.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039516", "text": "What I'm saying is that Russia has all the forces it needs to conduct a major military action.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039517", "text": "They are not going to war in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039518", "text": "They are not going to war with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039519", "text": "Those are defensive weapons intended to defend Ukraine against aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039520", "text": "First, you know, Russia's calculus vis-a-vis China -- whether they're going to make Beijing upset or not -- you know, that's kind of between Russia and China.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039521", "text": "China also has its own decisions to make.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039522", "text": "And then, finally, I would just say that we do not believe that China can compensate Russia for the economic losses that would be sustained in the event of an invasion, due to sanctions and export controls and the like.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039523", "text": "Just one more thing on the broader issue of China and Russia, because there was quite a bit of hype about the statement that they put out.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039524", "text": "This is not a country where we are at war, where we have tens of thousands of troops who have fou- -- been fighting a war for 20 years.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039525", "text": "The President has frequently talked about getting out of Afghanistan as a major event.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039526", "text": "The President ended a 20-year war in Afghanistan -- a war that had cost us thousands of American lives, billions -- trillions of dollars, and was a failed enterprise after 20 years.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039527", "text": "We are trying to prevent war here.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039528", "text": "We had already concluded that Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine, and the information from Bucha appears to show further evidence of war crimes.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039529", "text": "At this juncture, we believe that Russia is revising its war aims.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039530", "text": "In order to protect any territory it seizes in the east, we expect that Russia could potentially extend its force proje- -- projection and presence even deeper into Ukraine, beyond Luhansk and Donetsk provinces.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039531", "text": "But this does not mean that Russia will succeed in the east.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039532", "text": "Even as Russia acknowledges the failure of its initial plans and shifts its goals, three elements of this war remain constant.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039533", "text": "Second, the Ukrainian military and people will continue to effectively and bravely defend their homeland.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039534", "text": "Russia was unstoppable; we just had to make the price as high as possible for them.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039535", "text": "The last time Russia used chemical weapons, there were sanctions but not very stiff ones.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039536", "text": "Right now, just to give everybody the full scope of it, India's imports of Russian energy represent only 1 to 2 percent of their total energy imports.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000039537", "text": "The President does not believe -- he believes it's ludicrous for Russia to be a member of the Human Rights Council.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039538", "text": "Iran, over the weekend, said that a deal was close.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039539", "text": "What we've seen, however, is that Iran has raised a number of issues that has nothing to do with the mutual compliance under the nuclear deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039540", "text": "I would note that Russia and China are both members of the P5+1.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039541", "text": "I think what is clear is the pandemic laid bare what was the underlying reality, which was the supply chain was stressed even before the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039542", "text": "We and our allies will be raising those issues and other issues with Russia in the days and weeks ahead, and certainly as a part of these talks.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039543", "text": "As you know, there's a significant investment in addressing the climate crisis in the bill and legislation that we have been working on -- with Congress on.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039544", "text": "If Russia does indeed invade Ukraine, we will have very harsh consequences for the Russian government.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039545", "text": "Well, we are continuing to provide defensive assistance to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039546", "text": "The American Jobs Plan calls for a $50 billion investment in semiconductor manufacturing and research, as it's called for in the bipartisan CHIPS Act.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039547", "text": "First of all, every business leader I talk to, big and small, agrees we must make these investments in infrastructure in order to compete.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039548", "text": "We believe that this $300 million investment in coal communities is the largest economic development that EDA has ever made in coal communities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039549", "text": "A few days ago, the U.S. government and governments around the world accused China of malicious cyber activities.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039550", "text": "Alongside other member stat- -- member count- -- states around the world, we continue to call for China to provide the needed access to data and samples.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039551", "text": "But we are still at war with the virus; we've never said that would be over.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039552", "text": "Listen, we're in the middle of a pandemic, and I -- I know the success we've had in Connecticut, when I was commissioner of education, was because we worked very closely with our health department.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039553", "text": "But we are fighting through this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039554", "text": "In the past, you criticized Russia and China for so-called vaccine diplomacy, and you suggested that it should be done through international projects or institutions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039555", "text": "And we had students from Howard University administering vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039556", "text": "If we find that because of poor policy students are not accessing the right to public education, we will have conversations with those states and --", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000039557", "text": "Working to reach out to Republicans, Senator Lindsey Graham, obviously, tested positive for COVID and spoke out about the importance of the vaccine.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039558", "text": "Secretary Granholm is just the second woman to lead the Department of Energy, where she will help America achieve President Biden's goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039559", "text": "She also was the first woman elected Attorney General of Michigan and served as the state's top law enforcement officer from 1998 to 2002.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039560", "text": "And the President decided to put infrastructure before gun control, before climate change, before some of these other issues.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039561", "text": "Certainly, Americans detained in Iran is an issue that we have raised with partners around the world and those who are having direct discussions with the Iranians.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039562", "text": "He also believes the issues facing our democracy today are not insurmountable if we choose to tackle them together.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039563", "text": "Madam Secretary, as you talk about supply and demand and as that was part of the issue for this spike in gasoline prices and energy prices, COVID is here.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039564", "text": "And when demand is high, the price goes up.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000039565", "text": "Healthcare providers in rural communities have historically faced significant financial challenges, which the pandemic has only made worse, and these payments are a key part of the administration's effort and commitment to keeping rural hospital doors open.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039566", "text": "And he supports investment in public health, education, the environment, housing, community-based programs.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039567", "text": "White House officials have previously said they think inflation is transitory.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039568", "text": "What we are seeing now at the border is the immediate result of the dismantlement of the system and the time that it takes to rebuild it virtually from scratch.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039569", "text": "His campaign was about fighting for democracy, and we're going to continue to fight for democracy in the White House.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039570", "text": "Senator Warren proposed a wealth tax on households that are worth at least $50 million, saying, quote, This is money that should be invested in childcare and early education...infrastructure, all of which are priorities of President Biden and Democrats in Congress.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039571", "text": "So I don't think you've had a shortage of that.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000039572", "text": "And that can cause the significant spread of a pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039573", "text": "In fact, the Title 42 authority has been applied to irregular migration since the very beginning of this administration and before.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000039574", "text": "Members of the administration -- you, recently, this week -- talked about the importance of journalism to democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039575", "text": "And ensuring our neighbors can contain the virus is a mission-critical step -- is mission critical to ending the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039576", "text": "I mean, you announced sanctions on Russia back when you were a State Department spokeswoman.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039577", "text": "On Monday, the President said it's important to get the vaccine, and then, quote, even after that, until everyone is, in fact, vaccinated, to wear this mask, unquote.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039578", "text": "I would say, as I noted in response to a question -- or two questions that were asked earlier that were very similar, our big concern has been the pandemic and COVID and safety.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039579", "text": "It will also -- there's also a major investment in our caring professionals, in an industry where one in six workers -- who are disproportionately women of color -- live in poverty.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039580", "text": "And I think that -- you know, the virus is unpredictable.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039581", "text": "I mean, how much -- how often or how much of that is part of the public education, messaging -- there are some PSAs that the administration is doing.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000039582", "text": "During the pandemic, we've seen deaths of despair increase.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039583", "text": "She also became the first Native American woman to be elected to lead a state party.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039584", "text": "The pandemic has made this very clear.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039585", "text": "But I really don't think the major factor is the extra unemployment.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000039586", "text": "On the FDA's approval -- expected to authorize the vaccine -- the Pfizer vaccine -- for 12- to 15-year-olds any day now.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039587", "text": "And I think the question for Russia is whether they want to be a part of that global community.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039588", "text": "And also, what these tax -- these tax proposals are meant to do is to pay for historic investment in infrastructure, historic investments in childcare and education -- something that there is broad support for across the country.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039589", "text": "I would argue that infrastructure is the foundation that makes it possible for people to live and work well.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039590", "text": "And investing in a full vision of infrastructure is how we build a safer and more prosperous America, and ultimately, I believe, critical to the American Dream.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039591", "text": "And then, on Afghanistan, there are reports out about growing frustration among the commanders in the military and the President's generals about the President's indecision on the question of what to do by May 1st.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039592", "text": "But as we've also seen, this is a very unpredictable virus, and his first priority is ensuring that the American people are vaccinated.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039593", "text": "Since the start of the pandemic, 19 million appointments have been changed, cancelled, or deferred as a result of the pandemic - 19 million.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039594", "text": "Investing in our nation's infrastructure is a top priority for the President, something he's talked about as a part of his Build Back Better agenda.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039595", "text": "When you add a pandemic to that, it's clear it will take significant time to overcome.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039596", "text": "I mean, we know that China just announced a huge defense spending -- 6.8 percent, I believe, for this year.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039597", "text": "So, given all of the concern by many in Congress about immigration and what's happening at the border, it sure seems like a good time to move that initiative forward.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039598", "text": "Even Democrats like Senator Joe Manchin -- I talked to him yesterday -- he says that he has concerns about inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039599", "text": "We take -- we understand the threat that inflation poses.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000039600", "text": "They have threatened our own military, as we all know.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039601", "text": "This bill would be an important step towards ending pay discrimination through transparency and accountability for employers.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000039602", "text": "The American Rescue Plan will change the course of the pandemic and deliver immediate relief and support to women, families, and their communities critical to building a more equitable economy.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039603", "text": "Well, I think if marijuana was federally legal, that might be a different circumstance.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000039604", "text": "Well, the top priority of the President's and of the United States is saving lives and ending the pandemic in the United States and, of course, around the world.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000039605", "text": "The order also recognizes that students sometimes experience discrimination based on race, disability, and national origin; and that LGBTQ+ students experience significant amounts.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000039606", "text": "And on a separate issue on the border, I understand that the delegation is going to brief the President.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039607", "text": "And she described though -- you said she might go to the border -- she described a trip to the border yesterday as a grand gesture.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039608", "text": "Well, again, we would make a decision about the Canada border based on the guidance of our health and medical experts.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039609", "text": "The President will continue to advocate for the importance of that moving forward and the reasons why that it's a -- it's important and vital for our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039610", "text": "Over the last decade, Russia has used cyber as a major part of its military activity beyond its borders, including to undermine, coerce, and destabilize Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039611", "text": "As many of you know, the government doesn't own or operate critical infrastructure that provides critical services to our citizens -- for example, our water systems and power systems.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039612", "text": "Second, we continue to support Ukraine as it works to shore up its cyber defenses.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039613", "text": "While of limited impact, this recent spate of cyberattacks in Ukraine are consistent with what a Russian effort could look like in laying the groundwork for more disruptive cyberattacks accompanying a potential further invasion of Ukraine's sovereign territory.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039614", "text": "Both financial sanctions and export controls deny something to Russia that it needs and can't get from anywhere other than the United States or our Allies and partners.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039615", "text": "Russia would face the prospect of intense capital outflows, mounting pressure on its currency, surging inflation, higher borrowing costs, economic contraction, and the erosion of its productive capacity.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039616", "text": "So, yes, we -- we have assessed that Russia was responsible for the distributed denial-of-service attacks that occurred earlier this week.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039617", "text": "So we do expect that should Russia decide to proceed with a further invasion of Ukraine, we may see further destabilizing or destructive cyber activity.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039618", "text": "The Central Bank of Russia has raised interest rates eight times over the past year to 9.5 percent.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039619", "text": "We saw Russia spend 25 percent of its foreign reserves in a futile attempt to defend the ruble.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039620", "text": "So, Russia has used offensive cyber activity to coerce and disrupt critical infrastructure in Ukraine during a prior crisis.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039621", "text": "So, generally, as we look at ourselves as a society, we know that critical infrastructure is our focus -- to rapidly improve our domestic resilience because of the degree to which critical services like power and water touch citizens across the United States.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039622", "text": "I think, again, it's important to remember that they have been -- we would consider eastern Ukraine -- that the war began in eastern Ukraine back in 2014.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039623", "text": "And Russia's threats of war if their demands aren't met are inconsistent with diplomacy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039624", "text": "On COVID, I believe that only four, maybe five states still have indoor mask mandates as it holds right now.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000039625", "text": "You guys have attributed this cyberattack to Russia, and you're warning that the prospect of war is -- or peace, rather, is pretty dim.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039626", "text": "But again, we trust the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039627", "text": "Both the German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron have expressed their concerns over U.S. policy towards vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039628", "text": "And that's one of the things that's, I think, such a good thing about our system here, is that we're ruled by the science, not by any other consideration.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039629", "text": "No, because that's to the science, and we want the science agencies to lead with science, and there's no reason for us to be involved in any of the scientific decisions.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039630", "text": "Any approach or engagement with Russia or actions would be done in coordination.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039631", "text": "But I will say that the President has been consistent in his view that there's not a military solution to Afghanistan; that we have been there for far too long.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039632", "text": "The U.S. has repeatedly called on Russia to deescalate tensions at the Ukrainian border.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039633", "text": "You have tensions, obviously, with Russia over Ukraine and Crimea; there are a lot of concerns about what's happening in China and the South China Sea and also in Taiwan.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039634", "text": "We have been working -- we've been at war with the Delta variant over the course of the last couple of months.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039635", "text": "It's not that we have a gasoline shortage, it's that we have this supply crunch, and that things will be back to normal soon, and that we're asking people not to hoard.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000039636", "text": "So, for California or any state across the country, it was based on the final three months of unemployment in 2020.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000039637", "text": "The President assured governors today there will be enough vaccine for all Americans.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000039638", "text": "There has been a discussion about infrastructure -- investing in infrastructure, the importance of modernizing infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039639", "text": "So I think that, you know, Russia has reduced some emissions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039640", "text": "In fact, it commits 40 percent of our investment in clean energy towards disadvantaged communities so they can benefit from the new jobs that are available and see that better future.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039641", "text": "Now, with respect to China, obviously we have serious differences with China on some very, very important issues.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039642", "text": "Well, first, obviously the misinformation, of course, that has - we've seen also come out of some sources in China is of great concern to us.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039643", "text": "And also, yesterday, in her hearing in the Senate, Governor Raimondo declined to blacklist Huawei technology in the U.S.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000039644", "text": "Because you mentioned that Russia did, and our intelligence officials say they did.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039645", "text": "I think what is true is that Russia has failed time and time again to get their client-state in line.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039646", "text": "But with regard to closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, we've encountered significant obstacles from Congress -- Democrats and Republicans, disappointingly.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039647", "text": "The Obama administration has never transferred somebody to the prison at Guantanamo Bay.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039648", "text": "Some of that is because of the global price of oil, but limiting their access to international financial markets and limiting their access to some of their most prominent and important trading partners surely hasn't helped.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000039649", "text": "So Russia has faced intense isolation because of their flagrant violation of Ukraine's sovereignty.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039650", "text": "The willingness of the Russian government to punish journalists, to target political opponents, has created a human rights situation in Russia that's troubling.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039651", "text": "The President talked about major threats to our democracy, and in that he listed a number of things and they were reminiscent, if you will, of past criticisms of Mr. Trump.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039652", "text": "On North Korea, North Korea continues to threaten with the nuclear and ICBM to South Korea and the United States.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000039653", "text": "Our view with regard to North Korea is that they should refrain from the kinds of destabilizing activities that frequently rattle nerves not just in the region but around the world.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000039654", "text": "Even President George W. Bush, who has different views on foreign policy than President Obama in most areas, but in this area, he agrees that the prison should be closed.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039655", "text": "You've got sanctions on Russia, sanctions on Iran, sanctions on the Assad regime.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039656", "text": "And our actions in Syria have taken ISIL leaders off the battlefield.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039657", "text": "So it's not just that we're reducing poverty; we're actually making some progress in reducing inequality as well.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000039658", "text": "She understands the consequences of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, not just because of the impact on U.S. national security, but also because of the impact on the national security of our allies in the Middle East, Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039659", "text": "And then on Cuba, you've described Latin American unhappiness at the embargo.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000039660", "text": "As long as Assad is around and in charge of the country and in control of the military, we're not going to be able to resolve the political chaos inside of Syria.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039661", "text": "Well, I certainly wouldn't rule out additional sanctions being imposed on Iran either by the international community or by the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039662", "text": "There are other places, even in China, where the President has spent time talking to people who are not enthusiastic supporters of their government.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039663", "text": "Turkey has made progress in sealing the border between Turkey and Syria.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039664", "text": "But there are concerns about his positions on abortion, about his positions on the Second Amendment in particular.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000039665", "text": "But at this point, I don't think that the gender of the nominee will drive the decision.", "issue": "gender"}
{"id": "0000039666", "text": "And by bringing them to facilities that are here in the United States, we can actually detain them under the laws of war in a way that costs taxpayers a lot less money.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039667", "text": "The U.S. has repeatedly called for China to stop the militarization of that area, and it doesn't seem like that's happening.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039668", "text": "This administration's investment in making sure that communities across the country, including New York, to fight terrorism and to protect the homeland are ironclad.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039669", "text": "The conversation between the two leaders did talk about the situation in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039670", "text": "Obviously, the strategy that we have pursued inside of Syria has been to offer some support to a variety of forces that have been fighting ISIL on the ground inside of Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039671", "text": "The President has made clear that we need people in Syria who are fighting for their own country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039672", "text": "When you have a government entity that is using weapons of war against its own people, you need a political transition.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039673", "text": "But that position has also been echoed by Russia and China, including when President Xi attended a state dinner here at the White House.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039674", "text": "And back in November, the United States military carried out an airstrike in Libya that took the leading ISIL leader figure in Libya off the battlefield.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039675", "text": "And it's my understanding that the U.N. right now is engaging with representatives of the Syrian government as a part of this ongoing process.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000039676", "text": "But, obviously, the resolution of the political situation in Syria is critical to our efforts to address the chaos in that country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039677", "text": "And the political failures inside of Syria have led to terrible consequences both in terms of the humanitarian toll that this situation has taken, but also on the broader instability not just in the Middle East but around the world.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039678", "text": "His predecessor, President George W. Bush, also advocated for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, as did pretty much every senior official in his administration, including military leaders.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039679", "text": "So a Russian deputy foreign minister says Russia is close to reaching a deal with the U.S. on a ceasefire in Aleppo.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039680", "text": "The WTO makes a decision on Monday about whether China should be granted Market Economy Status.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039681", "text": "And on Syria, you said you're not -- you're hopeful, but you don't know about a deal yet.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039682", "text": "We have also worked with the central governments in both Afghanistan and Libya to shore them up so that they can do a better job of providing for the security situation inside their own country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039683", "text": "I think the goal of the Cadillac tax has always been consistent with the goals of the President's domestic policymaking agenda.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039684", "text": "And what the Congressional Research Service has concluded is that implementing the tax would make health plans more efficient and would reduce national health expenditures by more than $40 billion annually in 2024.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039685", "text": "The reason that people have been fleeing violence inside of Syria is because the Syrian government totally lost control of the security situation of that country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039686", "text": "And the kind of violence that is wracking that country, and the fact that it is on the brink of being torn apart poses a pretty significant risk to the investment that Russia has already made there.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039687", "text": "At the prayer breakfast and at the mosque, the President said that an attack on one religion is an attack on all religions, that Christians should support Muslims in persecutions and Muslims should support Christians.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000039688", "text": "The concern that we have about the Zika virus is that it is linked to a particular birth defect.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039689", "text": "But the significant concern that we have is related to the potential that a pregnant woman could contract the virus and that her baby could suffer from this pretty serious birth defect.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039690", "text": "Building up the health care infrastructure in the countries where the disease is present is critical to our success.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000039691", "text": "And so China has raised some concerns, calling for all sides to avoid escalating the situation in the region.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039692", "text": "Obviously, Russia has got an important role to play there.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039693", "text": "Iran has made some progress, to their credit.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039694", "text": "Obviously we have a robust infrastructure in place to verify their compliance with the agreement -- not just at the beginning, but on an ongoing basis.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039695", "text": "And the fact that the United States imposed sanctions on Iran for their ballistic missile program is an indication that we're quite serious about continuing to hold Iran accountable for their nefarious activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039696", "text": "So even as we're mindful of the terrible atrocities that are committed by ISIL in Iraq and in Syria, we're also mindful of the threat that they pose to innocent human beings outside of that region of the world.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039697", "text": "Afghanistan is a big country, and there are extremists with a lot of skill that have sought to take the fight to those security forces.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039698", "text": "On women in the military, you would agree and acknowledge that they serve honorably and well.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039699", "text": "Well, certainly in our struggle in Fresno to deal with chronic, long-term unemployment.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000039700", "text": "Inside Russia, we see that critics and political opponents of the Russian government are often subject to threats, intimidation, and in some cases, death.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039701", "text": "The first and most important way that we've confronted this threat is making sure that the government that supports terrorism doesn't have access to a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000039702", "text": "Just picking up on Iran, Secretary Kerry also made some comments about the Supreme Leader, essentially praising him for making statements that were critical of the attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039703", "text": "But as we've said a number of times, this nuclear agreement was not predicated on Iran improving their behavior.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039704", "text": "And effectively closing the prison is one way that we can make it harder for extremist organizations to recruit people to their cause.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039705", "text": "There are significant investments in their infrastructure that also need to be made because they are already having an impact on their economy.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039706", "text": "The assessment that was made by the President's team, including the military and Secret Service, is that driving home from Andrews would be much safer than flying home from Andrews in a helicopter.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039707", "text": "And again, the reason that Iran was compelled to the negotiating table is because -- is quite obviously driven by their concerns about the state of the economy.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039708", "text": "So ultimately the government of Iran is going to have to make their own decisions about how they use the money.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039709", "text": "And again, for those who say that our concern should principally be about Iran's support for terrorism, we agree.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000039710", "text": "The Zika virus poses a different set of risks that are most serious for pregnant women.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000039711", "text": "Obviously, the President has been deeply appreciative of the kind of investment and commitment that Mayor Bloomberg has made to this issue.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039712", "text": "And speaking of war, Concepcion Picciotto is the woman who has been living in the tent out front for about 35 years, waging the longest peace protest in U.S. history.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039713", "text": "The President's top priority is homeland security and countering terrorism and protecting the American people.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000039714", "text": "It is still struggling for full employment, to say nothing of the fact that overall employment is down at the lowest participation rate in decades.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000039715", "text": "And this is the underpinning of our argument that Russia is more interested in propping up the Assad regime than in fighting ISIL.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039716", "text": "Well, it doesn't change the fact that closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay continues to be a top priority of the President.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039717", "text": "So among those who have devoted most of their lives to keeping the country safe, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, you agree that closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay should be a priority.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039718", "text": "What we'd like to see from Russia is a commitment to the kind of counter-ISIL-focused military effort that our coalition is carrying out.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039719", "text": "And, unfortunately, we have seen Russia not take the steps that they have committed to take in the context of the Minsk agreement.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039720", "text": "Russia already has a significant incentive to step up their efforts against ISIL.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039721", "text": "At the U.N. this year, the President talked about the dangers of leaving a vacuum in a country after removing an authoritarian leader -- obviously talking about Libya.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000039722", "text": "The Syrian rebels are not at the table for these talks, and they are saying, look, he's a war criminal, he needs to be in jail.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000039723", "text": "And now it's generally conceded we are at war with terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039724", "text": "And while this is not a declared war, certainly the American public believes that we're at war now with terrorist groups.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039725", "text": "So the fact is, we are at war, because ISIL has declared war on the United States and the rest of the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039726", "text": "In Syria, it's a little bit different because there's obviously no central government with whom we can coordinate.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039727", "text": "We have seen, because of the investment that the Turks have made in other sections of their previously contested border, that they have been able to secure significant portions of their more than 500-mile-long border with Syria.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039728", "text": "Well, we certainly strongly oppose the notion of repealing the Cadillac tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039729", "text": "The whole reason that the President ordered military operations against ISIL in Iraq and in Syria was the concern that they could establish a safe haven there that they could then use to carry out attacks in other places.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039730", "text": "There is significant infrastructure in and around Raqqa that has been destroyed by military airstrikes.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039731", "text": "And the fact is opening the doors to a college education for every student in America has been a top priority of this administration, and there's been significant progress made over the last several years.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000039732", "text": "I'm tired of pretending we're not at war and pushing the responsibility somewhere else.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039733", "text": "Even though the government can't the drought right now there is science that the current climate situation is getting even worse.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000039734", "text": "That ready access to guns and that proliferation of violent weapons of war has not led to fewer gun deaths.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039735", "text": "In fact, one of those meetings was actually supposed to take place in Russia and got moved.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039736", "text": "One of the sticking points, apparently, in those talks now, is China, among others, are resisting calls for early reviews of their plans to curb rising emissions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039737", "text": "My question is about China, though, Josh -- whether the President is pressing China to show leadership and allow reviews to its commitments to curb emissions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039738", "text": "And obviously being able to destroy that infrastructure is an important part of our efforts to shut off ISIL's financing.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039739", "text": "The President long has counseled patience -- this is going to be a long fight against terrorism and against ISIS.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000039740", "text": "We are aware that Iran has made important progress in fulfilling the obligations and commitments that they made in the context of that international agreement to dismantle significant portions of their nuclear infrastructure.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039741", "text": "That meant that Iran had to follow through with a commitment to eliminate 98 percent of their uranium stockpile.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039742", "text": "But we know that Iran is making important progress.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039743", "text": "And obviously critics of the agreement and critics of the administration note that Iran will get sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039744", "text": "But I think the leadership in Iran has made quite clear that they are working aggressively to fulfill their end of the bargain.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039745", "text": "And we've been pretty clear about the fact that Iran is potentially subject to significant sanctions as a result of the ballistic missile testing that has been reported.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039746", "text": "And obviously, as Doug noted, we're not at war with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039747", "text": "The President didn't start a war over this.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039748", "text": "That, right now, a fancy health care plan -- even one that is excessively larded with benefits that, in some cases, people never even use -- is a way for employers to offer compensation that doesn't actually benefit in full their employees.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000039749", "text": "And it's why we've seen such a dramatic increase, for example, in the production of solar energy, that -- I believe that's actually up twenty-fold in the United States since the President took office.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000039750", "text": "Clearly, a variety of U.S. airlines have invested significant money in infrastructure both in Cuba and the United States to facilitate those flights.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000039751", "text": "And that military would be stronger if Republicans in Congress were not blocking the kind of spending reforms that our leaders in the Pentagon say that we need.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039752", "text": "But I do think the relationship between Russia and the United States under President Obama's leadership has been one that has certainly served the American people quite well.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039753", "text": "Russia even contributed constructively to the Paris climate talks and made some commitments that were important to the completion of that agreement.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039754", "text": "Obviously, we've made a significant investment in overhauling our policy toward Cuba.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039755", "text": "But in order for us to make progress, Russia and the United States are going to have to work together in pursuit of that goal.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039756", "text": "It would be a good idea if Russia were actually willing to cooperate effectively and integrate their military efforts with the rest of the international coalition.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039757", "text": "You've repeatedly talked here today and elsewhere previously about the gun lobby, the Republicans supposedly being in the grips of the gun lobby, about the need for the Republicans and lawmakers to stand up to the NRA.", "issue": "lobby"}
{"id": "0000039758", "text": "That is an indication that our borders are certainly more secure than they've been in quite some time, and that is thanks to a significant investment that this administration has made in border security.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039759", "text": "And we have demonstrated our significant investment in that security relationship, and there's no doubting the strength of that commitment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039760", "text": "There's no denying the significant role that China will play in all of this.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039761", "text": "Generally weak -- weak because you didn't immediately sanction Iran after the most recent thing; and that it's also Hillary Clinton's fault because she was Secretary of State at the time.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039762", "text": "But I do think the President's investment in Asia is at least in part responsible for the unanimity of opinion we see among the Chinese, the South Koreans and the Japanese for confronting this situation.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039763", "text": "Again, instability in Northeast Asia, and on the Korean Peninsula, in particular, has significant consequences for China because they share a border with North Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039764", "text": "Right now, the background check system is run on technology that is a decade or two old.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000039765", "text": "So by deploying some better technology we can certainly address some of the concerns that you have just raised.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000039766", "text": "Obviously the nation of China wields more influence over the North Korean regime than probably any other country in the world.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039767", "text": "And the steps that we have taken to support the national security of South Korea are focused on the threat that emanates from North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000039768", "text": "We've seen both China, Russia and our allies condemn this flagrant violation of North Korea's international obligations.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039769", "text": "Back to China, and a lot of Americans are nervous as they're seeing their 401s shrink.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039770", "text": "But the concerns that the Saudis have expressed about the political chaos in Yemen spilling over the border into Saudi Arabia are understandable.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000039771", "text": "And closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay would make us safer, and that's why it's a priority.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039772", "text": "The U.N. has obviously been leading that effort.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000039773", "text": "Yesterday, Secretary of State Kerry indicated that Iran may be several days away from complying with the nuclear deal from last summer.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039774", "text": "We've made clear that this agreement between Iran and international community is not one that is based on trust.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039775", "text": "Well, I will say there is one important thing that Ukraine and Syria have in common when it comes to their relationship with Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039776", "text": "Well, again, for the rules of engagement and the kind of structure that's in place to guide the relationship between the United States and Afghan members of the military, I'd refer you to the Department of Defense for that.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039777", "text": "And again, the President has raised this directly with his counterpart in China during their previous meetings, and so this concern is not a new one when it comes to the Chinese understanding our perspective on this issue.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039778", "text": "She is the right woman to lead that organization.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000039779", "text": "And overnight the Commander of U.S. Force in Afghanistan, General John Campbell, issued a statement and I wanted to commend it to your attention.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039780", "text": "Does the U.S. government have any indication that Russia is preparing to deploy assets to additional military sites in Syria, namely Istamo weapons storage complex and the Al-Sanobar military complex.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039781", "text": "The White House has still not identified China as the official state sponsor of that.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039782", "text": "And then, the UK's Chancellor Osborne has spent the last five days in China and really been effusive in his praise for the Chinese, but also talking about linking their economies more closely together.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039783", "text": "And talk about abortion and religious freedom in his speech to the bishops --", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000039784", "text": "The fact is, Russia is isolated and their economy has taken a hit as a result of it.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039785", "text": "Ultimately, what we'd like to see is Russia live up to the commitments that they've made in the context of the Minsk agreements.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039786", "text": "It sounds like you already decided what Russia is doing there -- doubling down on behalf of Assad.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039787", "text": "This is something that China has been engaged in for quite some time, and it has drawn significant rebukes from the administration.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039788", "text": "And in the context of those conversations, Russia has made any number of commitments about their ongoing support for combined Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039789", "text": "But Russia hasn't really been willing to follow up -- or follow through on those commitments.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039790", "text": "When it comes to matters like Ukraine, he hasn't been willing to do that.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039791", "text": "Again, Russia is operating from a position of weakness in confronting challenges in both those countries.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039792", "text": "So at this point, it would be too early to speculate on whether or not we would make -- we would publicly implicate China in that particular matter.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039793", "text": "That is a basic principle of our democracy because we don't want to leave anybody with even the impression that there's the potential that somebody could be treated differently by our criminal justice system because of their political affiliation.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039794", "text": "This administration has repeatedly, through the Treasury Department, imposed sanctions against Iran for a ballistic missile program that extends beyond the accepted guidelines of the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039795", "text": "We've imposed sanctions against Iran because of their support for terrorism in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039796", "text": "We have imposed sanctions against Iran because of their repeated and flagrant violation of universal human rights.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039797", "text": "President-elect Donald Trump denounced racism in general, but he did not specifically denounce these neo-Nazi chants.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000039798", "text": "And so I don't think it's particularly surprising that Russia is using those new military capabilities, particularly in light of their longstanding efforts to prop up the Assad regime.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039799", "text": "Well, Jon, first and foremost, the President's top priority when it comes to Syria is making sure that the national security interests of the United States are protected.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039800", "text": "Russia is saying today that Western airstrikes in Syria are illegal and that Russian strikes are legal because they were requested by President Assad.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039801", "text": "A senior administration official told CNN today that what Russia is doing seems to have no strategic purpose against ISIS.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039802", "text": "The other thing that the two Presidents agreed upon in their discussions at the U.N. on Monday was the risk that ISIL poses to U.S. interests, to Russian interests not just in the region, but around the world.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000039803", "text": "The longer answer to your question is to observe that Russia has treated Syria as a client state for quite some time now.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039804", "text": "What we have said is that if Russia uses its military assets inside of Syria to prop up the Assad regime, that will make a political transition more difficult.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039805", "text": "Again, the reason that we've been having conversations about Russia's military commitment inside of Syria is because all of you were keenly aware of the fact that Russia had moved all kinds of military equipment, including fighter jets, into Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039806", "text": "But I think the military would say that it's not accurate to describe them as being engaged in that firefight.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039807", "text": "The State Department -- you'll recall that General Allen is a State Department employee -- he's retired from the military -- has been leading the effort to integrate the contributions of all of the nations who are part of this coalition.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039808", "text": "And I think Russia has long been involved in ramping up their efforts to support Assad.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039809", "text": "I think the burden here is on Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039810", "text": "And I think that highlights the risk that Russia is running here.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039811", "text": "And the fact is, these grave consequences for Russia are more dangerous than any diplomatic response that could be imposed on Russia by the international community.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039812", "text": "Obviously we would prefer Russia to make a constructive contribution to our ongoing anti-ISIL effort, and it certainly is not in the interest of the United States for Russia to exacerbate this sectarian conflict.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039813", "text": "Because Russia, in justifying these actions, suggests that they are carrying out operations against opponents to the Assad regime.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039814", "text": "And Russia has made a significant investment in that client state, and over the last five years, Russia has seen that client state essentially unravel.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039815", "text": "And it has risked the significant investment that they have in that country, and this significant military deployment is aimed at shoring it up.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039816", "text": "Obviously, arming Ukraine has been kind of an issue that's dangling out there.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039817", "text": "That is the risk that Russia is running right now.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039818", "text": "They no longer view him as a legitimate leader of Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039819", "text": "And it's Russia -- and the Assad regime, frankly -- that have essentially described the Syrian opposition as essentially one unit.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039820", "text": "I think the consequence is that Russia is wading more deeply into what is potentially an indefinite sectarian conflict.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039821", "text": "But it certainly will not be as significant as the prospect of Russia being sucked into a years-long sectarian conflict that only makes them more vulnerable to extremist violence.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039822", "text": "And some countries actually maintain an import tax of 70 percent on American auto products.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039823", "text": "Doctors Without Borders has referred to this incident as a war crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000039824", "text": "And obviously, an important part of accomplishing that mission is improving the security situation inside of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039825", "text": "On Syria, the President said on Friday that he's willing to work with Russia and Iran.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039826", "text": "And what that does is it more deeply involves Russia in a sectarian civil war that isolates them from the international community even further than they already are.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039827", "text": "Russia becomes the target of that anger, and that certainly poses risks to Russia not just inside of Syria but also inside of Russia where there's a significant Muslim population.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039828", "text": "But, again, that is going to be a significant problem for Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039829", "text": "According to the agreement, we will -- this agreement will cut the 30 percent car tariff in Malaysia and the 70 percent car tariff in Vietnam.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000039830", "text": "The fact is we see Russia doubling down on their support for Bashar al-Assad that only draws them further and further into a civil war inside of Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039831", "text": "So as I mentioned in a previous exchange on this, the significant negative consequences that Russia is facing right now as a result of their actions far outweighs any sort of diplomatic demarche that Russia could receive from the rest of the international community.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039832", "text": "Well, the President's decision about our forward-looking presence in Afghanistan is one that will be influenced by factors on the ground.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039833", "text": "There was unanimity of opinion on both sides of that table that there's no military solution that could be imposed on Syria; that at the root of all of its problems was a significant political problem inside of Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039834", "text": "It also serves to only draw Russia deeper into a sectarian civil war inside of Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039835", "text": "Just to follow up on that, another specific concern of Doctors Without Borders is that they say a war crime was committed.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000039836", "text": "And then on Russia, some defense officials are saying that the U.S. no longer has an interest in working with Russia on a strategic approach to Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039837", "text": "Well, our interest in working with Russia inside of Syria has been limited to Russia's willingness to make a constructive contribution to the 65-member counter-ISIL coalition.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039838", "text": "Outside of that, our only interest in dealing with Russia has been to take prudent steps to ensure that our military activities and the military activities of our coalition partners were effectively de-conflicted with the Russian military activities.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039839", "text": "The combat mission in Afghanistan for U.S. military forces ended at the end of last year, and that mission changed to a mission that was focused on counterterrorism operations and a broader effort to offer training, advice and assistance to the Afghan security forces.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039840", "text": "And it's precisely because Iran has often not been a cooperative, constructive member of the international community that we wanted to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039841", "text": "Russia for years now has been pressed to take significant action to prop up their remaining client state in the Middle East.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039842", "text": "Five years ago, Russia was able to reliably count on the client state that was in good standing in the Middle East.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039843", "text": "Well, the principal concern of the President when it comes to our national security interest in Syria is our ability to prevent extremists from using the chaos in Syria to carry out attacks against the United States.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039844", "text": "If anything, we've seen members of our coalition criticizing Russia, or at least expressing significant concerns about Russia's behavior inside of Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039845", "text": "And the long-term interests of Russia are not well-served by this stepped-up military investment inside of Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039846", "text": "Well, the President has made quite clear that Syria is not going to turn into a proxy war between Russia and the United States.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039847", "text": "It's certainly not how our democracy works when you have one party in charge of Congress and another party in charge of the White House.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039848", "text": "Well, I think it's clear that Russia has been acting unilaterally for some time to prop up a client state that was on the verge of falling apart.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039849", "text": "And that has significant consequences for Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039850", "text": "She strongly supports his investments in education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000039851", "text": "She strongly supports his investments in clean energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000039852", "text": "And the concern that we have raised is that Russia has failed to distinguish between those groups that are supported by the United States and our coalition partners, and the extremists in ISIL.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039853", "text": "On Syria, you said over the past few days, Josh, you don't want Syria to become a proxy war with Russia in any way, shape, or form.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039854", "text": "Well, as I've said before, the risks facing Russia, as a result of their unilateral military actions inside of Syria are significant.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039855", "text": "Russia says that they are unwilling to make a constructive contribution to that coalition and have even invited members of our coalition to join their efforts.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039856", "text": "Well, Jim, we've made clear that if Russia is willing to make a constructive contribution to our counter-ISIL coalition, that we would welcome such a decision.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039857", "text": "The President, before Russia commenced their military activities, said that a decision by Russia to double down on Assad militarily would be a losing bet.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039858", "text": "And while the President highly values the input that he gets from General Campbell and other leaders in our uniform military, there are other voices that will also have an impact on this decision.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039859", "text": "China urged the U.S. not to take risky or provocative actions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039860", "text": "Your counterpart in Moscow today said that Russia would be willing to consider sending combat troops into Syria if they were requested by the Assad regime.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039861", "text": "And the United States, in coordination with China, has made some significant commitments.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039862", "text": "The Chinese have made significant commitments to reducing carbon pollution in the context of those talks as well.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000039863", "text": "Only by putting in place more stable, effective and legitimate leadership inside of Syria are we going to address the root cause of so many of these problems that plague the Middle East right now.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039864", "text": "This reciprocates President Obama's state visit to China in November, 2014.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039865", "text": "Let's start with Syria and General Austin's pretty surprising admission that there are only four to five U.S.-trained Syrians in the fight against ISIL.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039866", "text": "The first is any efforts by Russia that are motivated -- that are geared toward doubling down on their support for the Assad regime would be counterproductive and destabilizing.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039867", "text": "We saw that that was true in confronting Iran, that one of the levers of influence the international community was able to exert on Iran was the prospect of additional and tougher economic sanctions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039868", "text": "And you've heard me say that that kind of energy and enthusiasm on the Democratic side will ultimately be important to the success of the Democratic nominee, regardless of who that person is.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000039869", "text": "On Syria, Secretary Kerry said today that Russia has asked for military-to-military talks with the U.S.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039870", "text": "Josh, getting back to Syria, there are reports that Russia is sending battle tanks to a new airbase in Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039871", "text": "And on China, The Washington Post is reporting that the administration is holding off on sanctions against Chinese entities prior to President Xi's visit here.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039872", "text": "Are they -- publicly they say this is about fighting terrorism and battling ISIL.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000039873", "text": "We know also that Russia has viewed Syria as essentially their client state in the Middle East.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039874", "text": "That is a relationship that Russia has enjoyed at least for quite some time and it's one of the reasons that we know that Russia already has some significant military assets in Syria already.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039875", "text": "All of that is evidence of a very healthy democracy in this country, and the President is pleased that we can have a robust political debate.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039876", "text": "But the announcement that was made today, the commitment on the part of a number of Chinese cities and provinces to cap their carbon pollution, is a significant announcement and has significant consequences and benefits for American interests and the American people.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000039877", "text": "Josh, following up on the Montenegro issue, Russia has made it pretty clear that it doesn't want to see any NATO expansion, especially in the East.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039878", "text": "And that's why Russia faces increasing international isolation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039879", "text": "But again, that will require Russia to make the kind of decision to depart from the destabilizing activities that they've been pursuing in Ukraine for quite some time now.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039880", "text": "Those who know a whole lot more about Syria than I do I'm sure would confidently describe the situation in Syria as chaotic.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039881", "text": "And ultimately that led to China making the historic commitment to peak or cap their carbon pollution on around 2030.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039882", "text": "And that would obviously make a significant contribution to China meeting the goal that President Xi laid out in China last fall.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039883", "text": "Russia has not demonstrated a lot of credibility in talking about these issues in the past.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039884", "text": "But what is true is that Russia has either been unwilling or unable to fulfill the commitments that they made to the United States.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039885", "text": "And Russia is in a situation where they are now essentially standing alone with the Iranians to support the Assad regime.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039886", "text": "They are condemned to poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000039887", "text": "By rolling back that system, not only do we detract from the effective confrontation and forceful confrontation of state sponsors of terrorism, we also further degrade this principle of sovereign immunity that protects the United States of America more than any other country in the world.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000039888", "text": "What even the Russians acknowledge that a political transition inside of Syria must take place because it is simply not possible for a leader like Bashar al-Assad to continue to govern Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039889", "text": "There are -- we know that when the rules of trade are fair, that Americans can out-compete anyone in the world.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000039890", "text": "In some TPP countries, these automobiles face a foreign tax of up to 70 percent, a tax that would be eliminated through the TPP.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039891", "text": "Some foreign countries put an exorbitantly high tax on American pork -- up to 388 percent before it can be imported into another country.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000039892", "text": "Russia has declined to make that constructive contribution thus far.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039893", "text": "The Defense Minister said that Iran would not ask permission to strengthen its defense and missile capabilities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039894", "text": "We have seen Iran on -- almost serially violate the international community's concerns about their ballistic missile program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039895", "text": "And, in fact, Iran had previously used the cover of talks to make progress on their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039896", "text": "And just to be clear, Iran will not get sanctions relief under this deal until they have taken significant and verifiable steps to significantly curtail their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039897", "text": "So these are significant steps that Iran still must take before any sanctions relief will be offered.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039898", "text": "We have pointed to the political problems inside of Syria and the failed political leadership of President Assad as the root cause of so many of these problems.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039899", "text": "Obviously, the scale of the humanitarian crisis that has been caused by the violence inside of Syria is significant and even historic.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039900", "text": "To see millions of people fleeing Syria, and millions of other people displaced inside of Syria fleeing violence is a significant challenge.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039901", "text": "But I'll just point out that the debate about trade over the summer did not have an impact on our ability to build a bipartisan coalition in Congress to support trade promotion authority legislation.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000039902", "text": "Several times now you mentioned how much the administration welcomes robust debate, that it's good for democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039903", "text": "But that's the essence of democracy, particularly in an era where there's one party in charge of Congress and another party that's in charge of the White House.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039904", "text": "Obviously our support for moderate opposition forces in northern Syria have made progress against ISIL.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039905", "text": "We've also demonstrated a willingness to scale back our investment in those aspects of the strategy that have not yielded progress.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039906", "text": "The core of our military strategy inside of Syria is to build up the capacity of local forces to take the fight to ISIL on the ground in their own country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039907", "text": "The decision that the President has made to add these Special Operations Forces to build up the capacity of local fighters in Syria will involve fewer than 50 Special Operations personnel.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039908", "text": "And building the capacity of local forces, particularly in northern Syria, has shown some promise and this is a further intensification of those efforts.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039909", "text": "The challenges that we faced in terms of building the capacity of forces in Iraq and forces in Syria have been different because the situations in Iraq and in Syria have been different.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039910", "text": "And the advance that forces in northern Syria have made toward Raqqa have left them within 45 kilometers of the self-declared capital of the Islamic State.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039911", "text": "MR They are not being deployed to Syria with a combat mission.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039912", "text": "And once the United States military left Iraq, we did see a situation where the Iraqi central government", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039913", "text": "But I do not envision a scenario where the United States military is coordinating our efforts with won't Russians unless and until the Russians are prepared to make a constructive commitment in contribution to our counter-ISIL coalition.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039914", "text": "And our efforts to offer support to opposition fighters in northern Syria have shown some promise because those fighters have made some progress.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039915", "text": "When the President talked to Lester Holt yesterday, in part of their conversation on Syria the President described the mission there with the addition of special operators as more of an extension than a change.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039916", "text": "It's a very dangerous situation inside of Syria, and there are significant risks associated with deploying these fewer than 50 Special Operations forces to Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039917", "text": "And many of the critics of our climate policy for years were intensely skeptical of China making a commitment like this.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039918", "text": "And they've made some important gains in northern Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039919", "text": "Closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay makes a whole lot of fiscal sense.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039920", "text": "For decades, critics of U.S. efforts to cut carbon pollution said that it was foolish for the United States to pursue those kinds of policies on our own.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000039921", "text": "Well, now we actually have seen that China and Brazil and Japan and South Korea and Australia and a bunch of European economies are willing to do the same thing.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039922", "text": "So we've made tremendous progress in investing in renewable energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000039923", "text": "I know that the issue of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was an item that was on the agenda.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039924", "text": "So the brightest and most influential foreign policy thinkers in America who are most focused on national security are convinced that closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay is an important thing to do because it's good for the country and good for our security.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039925", "text": "Our expectation is that Iran will continue to carry out the kinds of destabilizing activities that do pose a pretty direct threat to Israel, but also pose a threat to our interests in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039926", "text": "And particularly when it comes to an issue like the prison at -- closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the President feels strongly about that and has made that a priority for some time.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039927", "text": "And dismantling some of the centrifuges -- almost all of the centrifuges that you've just referred to -- is required before Iran will obtain any sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039928", "text": "And I know that Syria is not the issue necessarily, but he will be hundreds of miles from the border.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039929", "text": "The President has determined after careful consideration that closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay is clearly in the national security interests of the United States.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039930", "text": "It also shows the benefits of the investment that we have made in that fighting force that has been an effective partner with the United States and our broader coalition.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039931", "text": "And as difficult as this scenario has been, I think our efforts with regard to Syria thus far would pass those two tests.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039932", "text": "At the same time, the Russians have acknowledged that a political transition inside of Syria will be necessary to bring an end to the violence and chaos in that country that has threatened their investment in the first place.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039933", "text": "Millions of Syrians have been displaced from their homes inside of Syria, and millions more have been forced to flee Syria to escape violence.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039934", "text": "So we've made important progress against extremists in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039935", "text": "Just to be clear, the sanctions I was referring to in my previous answer were sanctions against some elements inside of Iran for their destabilizing activities against -- inside of Syria.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039936", "text": "The current policy -- the decision that the President made at the, I believe it was the end of last year, was that the military presence inside of Afghanistan post-2016 would be reduced to essentially a footprint around the U.S. embassy in Kabul.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039937", "text": "Regarding the issue of South China Sea, Chinese Foreign Ministries today say China has not militarized the region, and it's certain countries came flexing their military muscles in the region, and it's the biggest factor in the militarization in the South China Sea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039938", "text": "The U.S. government has been in touch with the governments in Afghanistan and Pakistan and we stand ready to provide any additional support that may be needed.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039939", "text": "The local elections are an important step as Ukraine moves forward with difficult reforms to decentralize political power.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000039940", "text": "And we call upon Russia and the separatists to negotiate in good faith in the Trilateral Contact Group's political working group so elections can take place in separatist-controlled areas as soon as possible.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039941", "text": "And, in fact, it harbors significant risk for countries like Russia that try to implement a strategy like that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039942", "text": "After all, the United States, like the rest of the world, welcomes a rising China and a China that is ready to assume the obligations and responsibilities that go along with significant economic, political and military strength.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039943", "text": "So there is an ongoing war and an ongoing military conflict inside of Afghanistan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039944", "text": "And the U.S. investment in building up their capacity is important to our counterterrorism efforts.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000039945", "text": "We have supported an Afghan democracy that has succeeded for the first time in carrying out the democratic transfer of power in that country's long history.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000039946", "text": "And one benefit of the President's strategy in Afghanistan was the platform for a successful mission to take out Osama bin Laden.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039947", "text": "That's why, when the next President takes office, whether that person is a Democrat or Republican, they will be confronting a situation in Afghanistan that is far better than the situation in Afghanistan that this President inherited.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039948", "text": "But the military commanders who have accepted the grave responsibility of implementing the strategy -- the military strategy at least on the ground in Afghanistan -- give the President unvarnished, candid advice.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039949", "text": "And our ongoing success in Afghanistan will require a continued commitment from our NATO partners, who have also served very loyally and effectively inside of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039950", "text": "And in fact, there are some elements inside of Iran that have been on the receiving end of tough sanctions because of their activities inside of Syria.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039951", "text": "Just really quickly, on Afghanistan, because I want to make sure that I understood you correctly.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039952", "text": "Kevin, the combat mission of U.S. military personnel on the ground in Afghanistan ended last year.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000039953", "text": "The President's campaign promise was not that he would make progress in Iraq and Afghanistan, it was that he would end the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039954", "text": "And the other thing is the President seemed to be -- different parts of his statement were sort at war with itself.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039955", "text": "So we have regularly urged the Russian military to make sure that their operations in this space were consistent with generally accepted international protocols.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000039956", "text": "And the fact that Russia is throwing in their lot and using their military capabilities to only augment that use of force is something that we are quite concerned about.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039957", "text": "Right now their military actions inside of Syria put that political settlement further out of reach.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039958", "text": "And the question is, is Russia prepared to adjust their strategy and be more constructive.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039959", "text": "And countries like China, ironically enough, have a significant stake in ensuring that free flow of commerce.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039960", "text": "In Syria, the situation is a little bit more challenging because we can't rely on the government there and we have to rely on opposition forces.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039961", "text": "Iran continues to support terrorist organizations around the world.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039962", "text": "So we have significant concerns with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039963", "text": "Well, I think I would just say that this is the only thing we're engaging with them on right now, is the situation in Syria, because our interests --", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039964", "text": "And the President does believe that successfully closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay would be in the best interest of our national security.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039965", "text": "He believes that continuing to operate the prison at Guantanamo Bay is a waste of taxpayer money and is not the best way for us to protect our interests around the world.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000039966", "text": "Iran will get all kinds of sanctions relief because the sanctions will no longer be enforced.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039967", "text": "That means that Iran is getting sanctions relief whether or not Congress kills this deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039968", "text": "Under the agreement that the President and the P5+1 has crafted, we will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039969", "text": "And no sanctions relief will be given to Iran until they fulfill that commitment.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039970", "text": "And that is what we have insisted that Iran provide before they get any additional sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039971", "text": "I think -- the reason I have described it this way is that essentially the -- Iran is going to get sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039972", "text": "It's either that Iran is going to get extensive financial benefits associated with this agreement moving forward for a variety of reasons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039973", "text": "But what is true is that Iran will get sanctions relief whether Iran -- I'm sorry, whether Congress kills the deal or not.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039974", "text": "And the only reason we were able to reach that agreement and apply that much pressure on Iran is that the international community was united.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039975", "text": "And once again, the international community will be in disarray in trying to confront Iran and their nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039976", "text": "You'll recall that the nation of Iran was united in pursuit of a nuclear weapon and the international community was divided and at a loss for how to confront them.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039977", "text": "And, in fact, we have now changed the equation in Iran, and Iran has now agreed to this -- to a whole set of limitations on their nuclear program in an effort to try to obtain some sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039978", "text": "The story is a little bit different in Syria because there is not a fighting force on the ground with which the United States has been -- the United States and our coalition partners has been able to partner with.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039979", "text": "On Syria again, you often say that the Assad regime has no future in running the country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000039980", "text": "The first is that part of the commitment that China made to cleaner energy production was an investment in nuclear technology -- essentially technology for nuclear power plants.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039981", "text": "And that does open up really important business opportunities in China for American companies, and that means a good opportunity to expand economic growth and job creation right here in the United States because of opportunities that exist in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039982", "text": "And the facts that support any insinuation that we are hindering any other nation's campaign against corruption just don't stand up to the reality of our efforts.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000039983", "text": "The United States is an international leader in anti-corruption, and we will continue to work with partners across the globe to advance the fight against corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000039984", "text": "At the same time, however, the United States has been able to work effectively with China to advance the mutual interests of our countries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039985", "text": "I'll remind you that China was an active participant in the P5+1 negotiations, alongside the United States and our international partners, to reach a diplomatic agreement with Iran to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039986", "text": "And that's an indication that U.S. engagement with China is useful in protecting and even advancing the interest of the United States.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000039987", "text": "I'm wondering if the President's legacy on trade that he worked so hard to get through Congress, the TPA, is in peril right now.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000039988", "text": "But the President has also been clear that in his dealings with Iran he's been unwilling to rely on any trust with the Iranian leadership.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039989", "text": "That you have in Iran a group of hardliners who are strongly opposed to the deal and advocating for its defeat.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039990", "text": "And there's an element of it that's a little ironic because one of the arguments that's made by Republicans is that the deal will only strengthen the hand -- will strengthen the hand and benefit hardliners in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039991", "text": "The fact is, we see hardliners in Iran making the same argument that Republicans are that the deal should be defeated.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039992", "text": "Some of them are promising that military action against Iran would be really easy and almost painless.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039993", "text": "And one of the key questions that seems to be out there is the administration has said that war there or an attack on Iran is not simple and, in fact, would be more difficult, and you relate it to what happened in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039994", "text": "But we know that Iran and their proxies have a significant number of missiles that are aimed at Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039995", "text": "And that's where the march to war begins.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000039996", "text": "And that's what our expectation is, and if it's not provided, all of that access and information is not provided by the deadline, Iran won't get any sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039997", "text": "The concerns that some of the strongest supporters of Israel have about Iran are entirely justified.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000039998", "text": "So in the reports that you said you cannot confirm, one American official said that Qasem Soleimani has visited Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000039999", "text": "Hardliners in Iran are also ideologically opposed to this deal, and that's the point that the President was making.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040000", "text": "Prior to the initiation of U.S. and coalition airstrikes inside of Syria, the United States government admonished the Assad regime against interfering in those operations.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040001", "text": "Russia says its Foreign Minister will meet with Secretary Kerry to discuss efforts to find a peace deal in Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040002", "text": "That's something that Russia has lost -- frankly, lost the credibility to be able to try to agree to.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040003", "text": "Saudi Arabia has a rather long border with Yemen, and there have been incidents of cross-border violence, including the firing of mortars across that border into Saudi Arabia that does threaten Saudi citizens.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040004", "text": "Obviously, the President in a variety of contexts has talked about the importance of securing our infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040005", "text": "So that, obviously, was one benefit of Russia and the United States preserving an ability to work together in pursuit of common interests.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040006", "text": "We're deeply concerned about the way that Russia backs the Assad regime and the way that Russia has refused to use their influence with the Assad regime to reduce violence against civilians inside of Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040007", "text": "The rest of the international community has imposed sanctions against Russia because of their flagrant violation of Ukrainian sovereignty.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040008", "text": "Many democracies in the West have expressed deep concerns with Russian attempts to meddle and influence, if not undermine, the basic functioning of their democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040009", "text": "And the world would not have come together to confront Iran in the way that the world did had the President and the United States not shown such leadership.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040010", "text": "Russia has a coalition with Iran and the Assad regime and maybe Venezuela, based on their vote at the U.N. Security Council resolution.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040011", "text": "Since negotiations for the ceasefire ended with Russia -- we talked a lot about that today -- but John Kerry calling for a war crimes investigation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040012", "text": "We got a government in North Korea that seeks to enrich itself, even in the face of some of the toughest sanctions regimes in the world, at the expense of the civilian population.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040013", "text": "They've got millions of people in North Korea who face daily, austere poverty, all while the government officials continue to enjoy the luxury of a wealthy lifestyle.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040014", "text": "It's new technology for the experts in this room and it certainly is for people all across the country as they learn about how to use it and what norms should govern the information that's transmitted along those channels.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000040015", "text": "If the United States were to withdraw from this agreement, Iran would get sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040016", "text": "Even our harshest critics acknowledge that this diplomatic agreement would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon for at least 15 years.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040017", "text": "The President has found engagement with China to be an effective way for the United States to advance our interests around the world.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040018", "text": "And only after those steps and several others have been effectively completed, will Iran begin to receive sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040019", "text": "And there are some situations in which Russia and China have been able to coordinate effectively with the United States to advance the mutual interests of our three countries.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040020", "text": "But obviously there are mutual interests between Russia and China, and I'm sure that's what garnered the most attention during the conversations between those two world leaders.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040021", "text": "But once Iran has taken those steps to begin offering that sanctions relief would not require an additional act of Congress.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040022", "text": "Couple quick ones on China and then on Gitmo On China, the Chinese government announced that they were going to be reducing their military by about 300, 000 members today.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040023", "text": "Several Republicans presidential candidates have talked about China -- from like Trump to Senator Rubio, Governor Walker.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040024", "text": "And, by the way, Iran will have to fulfil their requirements before they get any sanctions relief at all.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040025", "text": "But for decisions that are made by France, particularly as it relates to their policy for conducting some operations in Syria, I'd refer you to them for the latest update.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040026", "text": "And we've even seen the Assad regime use the military of that country to carry out terrible acts of violence against Syrian citizens.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040027", "text": "We don't want to allow a state sponsor of terrorism to get access to a nuclear weapon, and that's why the President made this such a priority.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040028", "text": "These are essential to a functioning democracy, and the Venezuelan government has an obligation to protect these fundamental freedoms.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040029", "text": "The Russian foreign minister now acknowledges that the Russian military is conducting some operations in Syria, but he says it's just part of an ongoing military cooperation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040030", "text": "And in a variety of settings, including when the President himself traveled to China, raised significant concerns about the Chinese government's respect for the basic universal human rights of its people, including access to information and freedom of expression.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040031", "text": "My question is about how the accord with Iran is structured.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040032", "text": "And that coordination was crucial to pressuring Iran to come to the negotiating table and agree to this deal that has been reached between Iran and the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040033", "text": "And ultimately it would put Iran in a position to benefit from sanctions relief without having to submit to any of the restrictions or inspections that are central to this agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040034", "text": "Surely Iran has all of its most important facilities hard underground.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040035", "text": "For example, today British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who has already met with Iranian President Rouhani and Foreign Minister Zarif in Tehran today, said that he believes the sanctions in Iran could be lifted by spring.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040036", "text": "Iran would get all kinds of sanctions relief but yet would not be faced with imposing constraints or inspections on their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040037", "text": "Finally, General Dunford said at his confirmation hearing today that Russia presents the greatest national security threat to the U.S.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040038", "text": "They've taken some provocative steps near the border of some of our NATO allies that we've raised concerns about previously.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040039", "text": "And it will require Iran to make some very serious commitments that they'd previously been unwilling to consider.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040040", "text": "It's those sanctions that have actually compelled Iran to participate in these conversations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040041", "text": "I'm asking specifically about the arms embargo, which, as I understand, is separate from the sanctions that are imposed because of the nuclear program.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000040042", "text": "The sanctions regime was not put in place to punish Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040043", "text": "The second is, Iran would still obtain the financial benefits of sanctions relief -- something that our critics have described as a financial windfall.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040044", "text": "Right now, because of the sanctions relief that's being offered, Iran is taking a number of significant steps to curtail their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040045", "text": "And Iran has committed to cooperating with the most intrusive set of inspections that have ever been imposed on a country's nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040046", "text": "Or Congress can vote to allow Iran to get off scot-free, and to get all the sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040047", "text": "Well, again, Kristen, this is an agreement that was negotiated between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040048", "text": "Because a nuclear-armed Iran only makes them more dangerous, and certainly does only further embolden them.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040049", "text": "And the important part of this is not that Iran has made those commitments, but that we can actually check to make sure that they live up to those commitments.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040050", "text": "As part of the deal, Iran can appeal to the Security Council if it feels that any members of the P5+1 are not abiding by the agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040051", "text": "Once this agreement is implemented, the breakout period for Iran would be lengthened significantly to a year, and we would also be in a position to verify Iran's compliance with the agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040052", "text": "Iran is less threatening, the danger is diminished; therefore, that's the context in which all those requests will be judged -- not the one that existed before the deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040053", "text": "Well, again, Roberta, our conclusion about the root cause of the chaos inside of Syria is that there is no military solution to the many problems that are plaguing Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040054", "text": "So our military is deeply engaged in the counter-ISIL campaign, but we're also trying to address the root cause of all this chaos, which is the political situation inside of Syria.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040055", "text": "There certainly has been -- the United States has been disappointed at the way in which Russia, and, to a certain extent, China, have wielded their veto authority on the U.N. Security Council to blunt international efforts to limit the violence inside of Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040056", "text": "But as it relates to the situation inside of Syria, I think our concern -- our most urgent concern is with the way that Russia has used their veto authority on the Security Council at the United Nations.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040057", "text": "So the situation in Ukraine is obviously the best example, where the United States has been able to work effectively with our European allies to impose tough sanctions against Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040058", "text": "Well, the benefits associated with the international agreement, the historic agreement to cut carbon pollution are significant for the United States both in terms of the impact it will have on the environment but also in terms of the impact it will have on our economy.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000040059", "text": "What this will also do is send a very clear, unmistakable market signal to entrepreneurs in the clean energy sector -- 196 countries have now made a commitment to reduce their carbon pollution.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000040060", "text": "But today Iran's deputy foreign minister, who is also a lead negotiator, said the issue of Americans imprisoned in Iran was negotiated during nuclear talks.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040061", "text": "Obviously there are a significant number of refugees that have been created by the crisis in Syria; many of them have fled Syria into Turkey.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040062", "text": "But what's important is to make sure that Iran, from the get-go, from the beginning, even before they receive any kind of sanctions relief, that they are ready to comply with the requirements that the IAEA has for access and information.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040063", "text": "Bill, we do know what the agreement is between Iran and the IAEA.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040064", "text": "And in fact, that would make it very difficult to further sanction Iran if there were ever any falling away from the agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040065", "text": "It would block mandatory labeling of genetically modified food by state and local governments, and establish a voluntary labeling standard through the USDA.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000040066", "text": "Well, what they will know by October 15th is whether or not Iran followed through with their commitment to provide the IAEA with the necessary information and access to complete the report.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040067", "text": "And yet Iran, it appears now, is pushing for a parallel deal to end the U.N. arms embargo.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040068", "text": "We know that Iran continues to be a leading state sponsor of terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040069", "text": "In fact, what we say is all those concerns about Iran would be even more concerning if Iran had a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040070", "text": "And that's why we've made preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon such a priority.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040071", "text": "Well, Chris, we have been -- continue to be -- our national security infrastructure has continued to be very vigilant about the threat that is posed by extremists.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040072", "text": "But again, the President and his team are prepared to walk away if Iran cannot sign on to a final agreement that reflects the kinds of commitments that they made in the context of the political agreement back in April.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040073", "text": "And that would certainly make it less dangerous when Iran decides they want to menace Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040074", "text": "And it certainly would make it less dangerous when Iran wants to support terrorist organizations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040075", "text": "It certainly would make it less dangerous for Iran to support destabilizing groups in the Middle East and elsewhere.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040076", "text": "So that's one example of the kind of investment that the President believes that we can make in everybody, in all of America's children, that would make our country more fair.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040077", "text": "Unlike the United States, which has sort of come out of their recession, the EU nations are still struggling to crawl out of that.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000040078", "text": "And that will require a sustained investment and a commitment on the part of the Nigerian government.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040079", "text": "But at the same time, the President has also been clear that if Iran cheats on the deal that all options will be available.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040080", "text": "And these are opposition fighters in northeast Syria that have made important progress against ISIL both not just driving them out of Kobani, but actually driving them out of pretty broad areas of northern and northeastern Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040081", "text": "This is worthy of doing in and of itself, principally for that reason -- it makes Iran less dangerous.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040082", "text": "And the way that the ground combat is going to be waged inside of Syria is with local forces who are fighting for their own country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040083", "text": "That is something that has proved to be effective already in Syria; that there are significant areas in northern and northeastern Syria where we have made -- where rebel forces -- where local forces on the ground inside Syria have made significant progress against ISIL forces.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040084", "text": "Today, a group of victims of rape came out and asked President Obama to revoke his Medal of Freedom.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000040085", "text": "The administration has been very active in pushing the military, who, to their credit, has taken some important steps to root out sexual assault in the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040086", "text": "Our preference would be for Iran to sign on the dotted line of a final agreement that reflects the political commitments that they reached in Switzerland back in April.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040087", "text": "But ultimately, it's going to require Iran to decide whether or not they're willing to take on those commitments.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040088", "text": "And making sure that that equipment and that software is up to date and reflects the burden that we place on the modern computer infrastructure of the country is also important and something that we're mindful of.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040089", "text": "And last week, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, said that China was a leading suspect -- the leading suspect in the OPM hack.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040090", "text": "You'll recall in 2009, in early 2009, Iran was on the march and making significant progress toward developing a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040091", "text": "So again, the President accepted Director Archuleta's resignation today and decided that Ms. Cobert is the appropriate person to lead the Office of Personnel Management.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000040092", "text": "And finally, General Dunford was saying that Russia is the biggest threat to the U.S., in his opinion.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040093", "text": "For the implementation of U.S. individual sanctions against North Korea, recently the U.S. Treasury Department announced ongoing financial sanctions against the North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040094", "text": "And while the threat from North Korea is so urgent, it makes sense that South Korea would look for a way to further enhance their security.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040095", "text": "Those kinds of significant commitments to infrastructure would create jobs in the short term, but also would lay a foundation for long-term economic strength in this country.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040096", "text": "We've got tremendous infrastructure in this country -- infrastructure that would benefit from some modernization, but still, infrastructure that does support a thriving economy.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040097", "text": "So we have extensive concerns about Iran's -- about Russia's failure to live up to the commitments that they made in the context of the Minsk agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040098", "text": "But when it comes to Ukraine, we have significant concerns about their behavior and the way that they have pretty recklessly escalated the situation in that neighboring country.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040099", "text": "It is hard to imagine China being able to make all of those changes in the short term.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040100", "text": "And the reason we've seen that fluctuation is because Iran does continue to produce low-enriched uranium consistent with the Joint Plan of Action.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040101", "text": "The final agreement would envision Iran reducing their stockpile to just 300 kilograms.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040102", "text": "That is what Iran committed to in the context of those political talks in early April.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040103", "text": "Iran is already sort of saying that they can be prepared for about a million additional barrels of oil if the sanctions are removed.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040104", "text": "Iran is not making progress at the heavy-water plutonium reactor in Arak.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040105", "text": "But if we can, in a verifiable way, demonstrate that Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon, then that would ease the pressure on others who might be feeling similar pressure.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040106", "text": "These are commitments that Russia has failed to uphold.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040107", "text": "And as a result of that failure and as a result of the continued violation of the sovereignty of the nation of Ukraine, the international community has taken steps to impose significant costs on the Russian economy and on the Russian government.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040108", "text": "There are also some areas in northeastern Syria where Syrian fighters, who are backed by our military coalition, are actually driving ISIL out of some territory in northeastern Syrian.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040109", "text": "Earlier, administration sources, though, were pointing a very strong finger at China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040110", "text": "Democrats and Republicans acknowledge that investments in infrastructure are critical to our economy, both over the long term but also in terms of the short-term impact that they could have to strengthen our economy and create jobs.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040111", "text": "That makes Syria a very dangerous place not just to people who live in Syria, but to people who live throughout the region, and potentially the people around the world.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040112", "text": "And it's because of Prime Minister Abadi's commitment to that inclusive governing style, that's why you've seen a corresponding investment from the United States and the broader international community.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040113", "text": "But because of the commitment from Prime Minister Abadi, we are optimistic that the kind of investment that the United States and our coalition partners are making in Iraq now are more likely to take root and be successful.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040114", "text": "The cost of operating that prison is prohibitively expensive and doesn't serve the best interest of the American people.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000040115", "text": "But it is a priority for us to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040116", "text": "And the sanctions regime that we have put in place has worked in terms of compelling Iran to come to the negotiating table.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040117", "text": "In Syria, the challenge is more significant, simply because we do not have an obvious capable fighting force on the ground with which we can coordinate in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040118", "text": "The other challenge that they face in Syria is that the local government in Syria is actually hostile to their efforts.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040119", "text": "The challenge that we face in Syria is complicated by the fact that we don't have that obvious local fighting force with whom we can coordinate.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040120", "text": "And on trade, the TAA issue came up actually I think back on Monday or Tuesday with the Medicare fix.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040121", "text": "I just wanted to bring your attention to something that Congressman Jim Himes said; he's one of your supporters on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040122", "text": "The real fight on trade could come in the actual deal with Asia itself.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040123", "text": "On Iran, it seemed to my eye to strain credulity for you to cast this open letter, signed by 18 foreign policy heavyweights, five of them former top advisors to this administration, as some endorsement of the President's approach.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040124", "text": "The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, said today that China is the leading suspect in the OPM hack.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040125", "text": "Just going back to trade to make sure I understand.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040126", "text": "Well, Roberta, this is a situation that we talked about a little bit in here a week or two ago, that we have seen important progress against ISIL in northeast Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040127", "text": "Josh, the issue of the ban prohibiting openly transgender people from serving in the U.S. military is coming to a head.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040128", "text": "But we've been willing to pay that political price to make a difference in the lives of millions of Americans across the country, and we've got a good argument to make because we're right on the merits.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000040129", "text": "This alleged dumping of information is part of the crime, if you will, that they've committed, and that will figure in the response by the administration.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000040130", "text": "Desegregating the military was an important step in this country's history.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040131", "text": "Josh, getting back to trade, you said that the President and Secretary Clinton's views overlap on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040132", "text": "On trade, Pelosi mentioned that there was some, maybe even a horse-trading deal that could be reached.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040133", "text": "Yet the latest survey in Russia itself puts his popularity I think at 88 percent.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040134", "text": "On Syria, the fall of Palmyra to the Islamic State in Syria seems to have prompted another round of demands for the President to change his strategy.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040135", "text": "The President believes that that commitment to democracy is one that's worth supporting.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040136", "text": "It's Iranian trade and exports that have been deeply affected by these sanctions, and it's the Iranian government that is under pressure from the Iranian people because of it.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040137", "text": "We're going to need to see Iran make some very specific commitments to this effort.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040138", "text": "The fact is the investment in training -- I think it's common sense that an investment that's made in that training effort is an investment that you expect to pay off over the longer term.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040139", "text": "They've made important progress in northeastern Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040140", "text": "And there is no doubt that the United States military, because of our capabilities and because of their character, is leading the way.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040141", "text": "On Wednesday, the Supreme Leader said Iran would never allow any inspection of its military sites or interviews with its nuclear scientists under any nuclear deal with the major powers.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040142", "text": "The United States is not prepared to go to war over Ukraine.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040143", "text": "The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed, is the deputy commander of the UAE military, but is the principal interlocutor between the United States and the UAE when it comes to significant national security questions like this one.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040144", "text": "That would not have been possible without the leadership of Russia, using their unique relationship with the Assad regime, to both convince the Assad regime to declare their chemical weapons stockpile, but then also to effectuate the destruction of that chemical stockpile.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040145", "text": "But respectfully, I'm still not hearing what's in it for Syria, because Syria has backed Assad -- continues to back Assad.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040146", "text": "What's in it for Russia is that it is not in their interest for there to be a chaotic war-torn country where violent extremists could seek to establish a safe haven.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040147", "text": "It also makes it easier for crime to infiltrate in those communities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000040148", "text": "In the Rose Garden, after the interim agreement was signed, the President at the end of his remarks spoke of the possibility of Iran joining the community of nations if it sticks by its obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040149", "text": "What we expect is that the humanitarian assistance that Iran is willing to offer will occur through the process that's already established by the United Nations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040150", "text": "In some cases, there will be a priority placed on food.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000040151", "text": "Russia has played a key part in those talks as a member of the P5+1.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040152", "text": "And the President was articulating his concern that that kind of segregation, class segregation, has affected the policy debate about the best way to address some of these persistent challenges in our society.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000040153", "text": "You were talking about Russia and space, and it sounded somewhat more optimistic than some of the language you've heard from this administration over the last several months with respect to Russia and their isolation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040154", "text": "Each of these countries has a significant military-to-military relationship with the United States when it comes to getting military hardware and security hardware to provide for the security of their country.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040155", "text": "The President has said before that he opposes discrimination.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000040156", "text": "Because we know and we've been clear that Iran is not going to get all the sanctions relief upfront.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040157", "text": "And he said that the reason why they're handling it so slowly is retribution for Senate Democrats -- I guess when they invoked the nuclear option in the last Congress.", "issue": "retribution"}
{"id": "0000040158", "text": "Yesterday, he was saying that Secretary Clinton's policy in Syria could lead to World War III because Russia is involved and it's a nuclear power.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040159", "text": "Russia has particular influence with the Syrian regime and they uses that influence to good effect.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040160", "text": "The one sign of encouragement that we have seen is that Iran did make commitments in the context of this political framework, but there is a significant amount of work that remains.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040161", "text": "Not only is there all kinds of new technology that they have to be prepared for, but there are also threats that emanate from a lot of different places.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000040162", "text": "The first is that we know that Iran, for at least a generation, has been very active in supporting elements of terror around the globe.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040163", "text": "It is highly likely that Iran will continue to be supportive of some terror elements, even if they are able to successfully enter and complete these negotiations about their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040164", "text": "You'll recall that several years ago when Congress put in place these tough sanctions against Iran, they did their part to put these sanctions in place.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040165", "text": "And that investment would mean that we would allow this piece of legislation to do two things.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040166", "text": "Well, the support that we provide to the Iraqi security forces and to the Iraqi military is obviously intended for those units that are under the direct command of the Iraqi military, and that's the intent of that assistance.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040167", "text": "And obviously we have been in direct touch with Russia to make sure that they understand -- and they do -- the potential concerns we have.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040168", "text": "That is a detailed commitment that Iran has made.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040169", "text": "And on the subject of Russia, you said that there's unanimity of international opinion that these sanctions be phased in.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040170", "text": "The other proposal that some have floated short of aggressive military action is putting in place additional sanctions on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040171", "text": "And our view is that a nuclear-armed Iran only makes their bad behavior even more dangerous.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040172", "text": "And as part of that decree, he also removed the most senior woman in the Kingdom, and I wonder if there's any concern about that.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000040173", "text": "And that assessment was drawn on hundreds of hours of surveillance of this particular compound, including near-continuous surveillance of the compound in the hours -- or in the days leading up to the operation.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000040174", "text": "There's been concern in South Korea that the U.S. and your unwillingness, I think, to acknowledge the issue here is emblematic of sort of a long -- of this issue.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040175", "text": "The only difference is that Iran has limited and scaled back in some key aspects their nuclear program, which we did in exchange for some of the limited sanctions relief that's been offered.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040176", "text": "So there is no shortage of things to talk about -- everything from important economic issues to a range of security issues.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000040177", "text": "Now, they certainly can draw on the kinds of commitments that Iran has already made in the context of this initial step here, and those commitments are significant.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040178", "text": "Those commitments do effectively block every pathway that Iran has to a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040179", "text": "And those commitments do include Iran cooperating with the most intrusive set of inspections that have ever been imposed on a country's nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040180", "text": "Iran has agreed not to enrich uranium over 3.67 percent for 15 years.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040181", "text": "We have a long list of concerns with Iran and their behavior, and not all of them are going to be resolved because we reach this nuclear agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040182", "text": "Because so much time has gone and now 70th anniversary of the U.N. is coming up where the President said that India should be a member of the U.N. Security Council.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040183", "text": "And in fact, one of the chief benefits of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is that it will have a corresponding positive impact on the security situation of our partners in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040184", "text": "Well, Anita, you know the President has placed a priority on closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay since his first days in office.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000040185", "text": "And China will most assuredly try to write rules of the road that further disadvantage American companies who are trying to do business in this region of the world.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040186", "text": "Josh, I want to go back to issues of trade, kind of more broadly speaking.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040187", "text": "But the examples that you're citing precede the hostility that I was referencing by President Duterte.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000040188", "text": "Well, Mark, I think everybody's patience with Russia has run out.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040189", "text": "So what we have seen from the Russians in the year or so since their military intervention in Syria is that they have not made much progress against ISIL.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040190", "text": "You'll recall that when Russia announced this military intervention in Syria about a year or so ago, they did so with the intent to unite a broad range of forces.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040191", "text": "He was talking about the commitment of Russia to do some of the things that I outlined before.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040192", "text": "I think Russia is rightly and justifiably concerned about the growing extremist threat that they face inside of Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040193", "text": "There's also a risk that Russia faces back home in fueling extremism.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040194", "text": "But in more than seven -- over the last seven months, Russia doesn't have a single significant counter-ISIL objective that they can point to achieving.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040195", "text": "And that has tragic consequences for the situation in Syria, there's no denying that.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040196", "text": "But addressing the root cause of this chaos inside of Syria is going to require diplomacy and a political transition.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040197", "text": "From the beginning, there's been skepticism about whether or not Russia would live up to the commitments that they've made in the context of applying that pressure to the Assad regime.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040198", "text": "But look, there's disappointment that Russia has not -- was unwilling to live up to the commitments that they'd made.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040199", "text": "I mean, now it does look like the artifice is gone, there is a lot of tension with Russia on this issue and many others.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040200", "text": "Russia has, we know, sent significant quantities of military equipment.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040201", "text": "As a result of their actions inside of Syria, Russia is deeply isolated and has earned the stern rebuke of the international community for their actions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040202", "text": "But that is an agreement that Russia was unwilling to live up to.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040203", "text": "He had a lot of experience in Afghanistan, was a combat commander.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040204", "text": "The first is, even while these sanctions have been in place, we've not seen Iran significant scale back their support for terrorism or their destabilizing activities in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040205", "text": "Now the international community is united in ensuring that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon, and there now is significant disagreement inside of Iran because a large portion of the population is frustrated by the poor economic conditions in that country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040206", "text": "Because the President, a number of times, and you have as well, have basically portrayed the alternative to a deal as war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040207", "text": "We know that the supply of food and fuel, and other critical needs had been interrupted, and we're concerned about the impact that's having on the local population there.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000040208", "text": "And that's precisely because Iran has a long history of trying to circumvent these kinds of agreements and these kinds of inspections programs.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040209", "text": "On trade, the President has also been saying that part of the reason TPP is so essential is because NAFTA had problems and caused issues for American workers that would be fixed under TPP.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040210", "text": "When Republicans like John McCain have raised the specter of war with Iran, from that podium you've suggested that they're going too far, that it's bellicose rhetoric.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040211", "text": "On Russia, the sanctions need to be renewed sometime soon and there still seems to be quite a bit of violence in Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040212", "text": "And so we can further pressure Russia by keeping our sanctions regime in place; that as Russia becomes more isolated, the negative consequences of that isolation only compound.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040213", "text": "What we can do instead, though, is we can leverage significant intelligence assets to, for example, in this case, actually conduct extensive surveillance of a particular compound.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000040214", "text": "We know that near-continuous surveillance of this compound was conducted in the days leading up to the operation.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000040215", "text": "In this case, one of those sources was hundreds of hours of surveillance of a specific compound, including near-continuous surveillance of that compound in the days leading up to the mission.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000040216", "text": "It's also had important national security benefits for both Afghanistan and Pakistan, I'd point out.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040217", "text": "In the past, you have praised by the government of Afghanistan and Pakistan in the counterterrorism operations.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040218", "text": "Well, what I can say, Toluse, is that the hundreds of hours of surveillance against this specific compound was a very important part of the source of intelligence that we had against this particular compound.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000040219", "text": "These are situations that we've confronted with Iran on a number of occasions throughout our history, particularly over the last 30 years or so.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040220", "text": "Iran continues to be firmly on the state sponsor of terror list for that reason.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040221", "text": "It's why Iran is subject to a wide range of economic sanctions that are not related to their nuclear program, but are actually related to their support for terror and their weapons programs and other things.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040222", "text": "Again, what Amir Hekmati is asking in this letter he was able to dictate from prison in Iran is that the United States impose serious consequences on Iran for taking Americans like this.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040223", "text": "So there already have been consequences that Iran has suffered as a result of this.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040224", "text": "But the United States is concerned because Iran has been supporting the Houthis and has provided them weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040225", "text": "She is somebody who has gone after public corruption and has brought charges against public officials in both parties.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000040226", "text": "The benefit of that is, if we determine that Iran is not complying with the agreement, then we can snap those sanctions back into place with the stroke of a pen.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040227", "text": "Now, the other thing, though, is that surely Iran would want the certainty of seeing those sanctions not just waived, but totally removed.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040228", "text": "Iran is going to commit to intrusive inspections, and they'll do so in exchange for some sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040229", "text": "As it relates to any conversations about U.S. military involvement, I will tell you that the United States military in Iraq continues to be in very close touch with Iraq's political leaders and with the leaders of Iraq's security forces.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040230", "text": "In fact, they are part of what makes it so important that we prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon; that a nuclear-armed Iran would be more dangerous when they menace Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040231", "text": "A nuclear-armed Iran would make it more dangerous when they support terrorism around the globe.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040232", "text": "And that has caused a lot of dissension within Iran about the wisdom of pursuing a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040233", "text": "Earlier, I think to Michelle, you had suggested that there was no connection between Iran backing the Houthi rebels in Yemen and their position there, and the nuclear talks.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040234", "text": "It will require Iran to make some substantial, serious commitments in the context of those negotiations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040235", "text": "But we have seen the investment that's required from the international community, and the United States is certainly supportive of that process.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040236", "text": "We have seen Iran actively engaged in supporting terror activity around the globe.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040237", "text": "The second is, the letter from Senator Cotton was one that was directed to our adversaries in the Islamic Republic of Iran; this is a letter that members of Congress signed and sent to the President.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040238", "text": "But what is still in doubt is whether or not the leaders of Iran would go along with this agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040239", "text": "Russia has had an opportunity to send essentially individuals to be members of those OSCE delegations to observe U.S. elections.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040240", "text": "Russia has declined to participate in that way.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040241", "text": "China has a significant economic interest in this region of the world in the same way that the United States does as well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040242", "text": "And there's an important role the United States military can play to advance their efforts on the battlefield.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040243", "text": "On North Korea -- North Korea is continuing to threaten to launch ballistic missiles, and it would also devastate the White House.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040244", "text": "North Korea threatening with their ballistic missiles.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040245", "text": "I mean, the President has basically presented the alternative as basically being war in terms of taking on those that were critical of this process.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040246", "text": "The head of the IAEA told Washington Post that Iran has failed to provide access to inspectors.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040247", "text": "So this is the interim nuclear agreement that required Iran to submit to some pretty tough set of inspections to ensure their compliance with the Joint Plan of Action.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040248", "text": "At the same event, China made a substantial commitment to peak and then reduce their carbon pollution, making a huge and unprecedented commitment to clean energy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040249", "text": "Preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is in the best interests of Saudi Arabia.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040250", "text": "It only makes it easier and more dangerous for Iran to menace those countries that the United States has strong relationships with, including our ally Israel and also potentially Saudi Arabia.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040251", "text": "But what's also true is that it's time for Iran to make some serious decisions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040252", "text": "But we do believe that the future of Syria should be decided around the negotiating table.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040253", "text": "We're talking about major polluters like China, India.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040254", "text": "Well, Shannon, we have seen China make some very serious commitments, which they made in the context of President Obama's visit to China just three or four months ago.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040255", "text": "So there is an interest in China both in making these kinds of commitments, but also in backing them up.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040256", "text": "And again, those are commitments that would verify that Iran had shut down every path they have to a nuclear weapon and that they would cooperate with a set of intrusive inspections.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040257", "text": "And it is time for Iran to demonstrate whether or not they're willing to make those serious commitments.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040258", "text": "And what we envision for essentially this week that we're in now is Iran reaching a political agreement with the international community whereby they would make clear, sort of as a general matter, what sort of an agreement they're willing to participate in.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040259", "text": "Five days ago, the Iraqi military made a specific request to the United States to back their efforts with military airstrikes.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040260", "text": "What we've heard from Iran publicly has been it wouldn't be the end of the world if no deal was reached.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040261", "text": "Okay, quickly -- we heard from France this morning saying that Iran is not where they're supposed to be at this point.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040262", "text": "But this is not an open-ended commitment to talking that we're willing to make here; that the time has come for Iran to make some decisions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040263", "text": "And it represents a failure of Russia and the separatists they back to live up to the terms of the agreement.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040264", "text": "But the point of the President is that as Iran is evaluating this agreement, if they're willing to live up to their commitment to have their nuclear program exist for only peaceful purposes, then that should be a relatively easy thing to demonstrate.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040265", "text": "Now, the fact of the matter is, this is not something that Iran has been honest about in the past, and that is part of why this is such an important strategy for resolving the international community's concerns with their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040266", "text": "And in the mind of the President, we should make sure that Iran is serious about living up to the terms of this agreement over a number of years before we contemplate taking those sanctions away.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040267", "text": "We've also expressed concerns with Iran's support for terrorism around the globe and with their anti-Semitic threats against our closest ally in the region.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040268", "text": "So we have a long list of concerns about Iran and their behavior.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040269", "text": "And Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon only makes their support for terrorism around the globe more dangerous.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040270", "text": "Well, you talk about raising the consequences for Russia if it doesn't abide by its agreements, which you just said they're not.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040271", "text": "So we're making very specific commitments that Iran will have to make in the context of these conversations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040272", "text": "And the other two benefits of a deal that are worth noting here is, currently, the assessment of some experts is that Iran is only -- that Iran's breakout period is only two or three months away from getting a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040273", "text": "So the list of concerns that we have with Iran is lengthy, and several of the items at the top of that list are significant.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040274", "text": "That if Iran has a nuclear weapon and they're supporting terrorism, it makes their support for terror groups even more dangerous.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040275", "text": "And the fact is, if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon and they unjustly detain American citizens in their country, it makes it harder to get those citizens back.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040276", "text": "The only X factor is whether Iran is going to sign on to an agreement that does all of those things.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040277", "text": "It depends on Iran and their political leadership making some difficult decisions to agree to this plan.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040278", "text": "And, ultimately, the Joint Plan of Action we know has been a useful document because Iran has come to the negotiating table and engaged in serious discussions because of the Joint Plan of Action, because they've been held accountable for their actions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040279", "text": "In fact, there's been a lot of talk about how Iran and Iraq have been coordinating some of their efforts to try to counter those Sunni extremists, particularly the ones that are part of ISIL in Iraq right now.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040280", "text": "So we've got lots of concerns about Iran and the way they conduct business around the globe, including their support for some terror groups.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040281", "text": "Again, we have a long list of concerns with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040282", "text": "Well, again, we have a long list of concerns with Iran, and at the top of that list is Iran's nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040283", "text": "And the principal concerns is that Iran, for a number of years, has been trying to surreptitiously develop and acquire a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040284", "text": "The second thing is that Iran on a number of occasions has used anti-Semitic rhetoric and threatened the nation of Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040285", "text": "But we also have concerns about Iran and their support for terrorist organizations around the globe.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040286", "text": "The contours of the deal that are being discussed would allow Iran to potentially consider moving toward a nuclear device after 10 years.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040287", "text": "And the Russian military has put in place a robust command structure in eastern Ukraine.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040288", "text": "Russia and the separatists it backs have acted in direct contravention of the Minsk Implementation Plan that they agreed to.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040289", "text": "And the whole purpose of these negotiations is to make sure that Iran doesn't obtain a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040290", "text": "Now, there continue to be issues that exist with Iran -- or tension that exists with Iran in other areas.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040291", "text": "If we had a diplomatic response, if we had economic sanctions that we were announcing against Russia, the American public would know about that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040292", "text": "As we've talked about quite a bit before, the reason that we have been able to compel Iran to the negotiating table is because the United States put in place a very stringent sanctions regime against Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040293", "text": "And that is consistent with verifying that Iran is serious about living up to their end of the deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040294", "text": "Well, Ed, what we have confirmed is that Iran has lived up to their agreement as a part of the Joint Plan of Action.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040295", "text": "In the context of the Joint Plan of Action, our international inspectors have gotten very important access to Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040296", "text": "Through the -- the international community has verified that Iran has lived up to the commitments that they made in the context of the Joint Plan of Action.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040297", "text": "Iran has been suffering under sanctions from the West since Jimmy Carter's administration, when the hostages were taken.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040298", "text": "Never before has a college education been more important to getting the kind of good-paying middle-class job that previous generations of Americans have relied upon for success.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000040299", "text": "So, in the mind of the President, this is an issue that science has settled and that it is clearly the responsibility of parents all across the country to get their kids vaccinated for the measles.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000040300", "text": "They're not saying you need to make the Ukrainian military as strong as Russia.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040301", "text": "This is something very basic and fundamental about science and about the need for American citizens to act responsibly to protect their own kids, but also to protect the kids in their community.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000040302", "text": "But as long as there is a population of people who don't get that vaccine, that disease becomes more dangerous and it puts even more children at risk.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000040303", "text": "The situation in Afghanistan broke down along the battle lines of a Cold War in which you had a variety of countries that were allied with the then-Soviet Union and a variety of countries that were allied with the United States.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040304", "text": "And every day that goes by that Russia fails to live up to their agreements those costs economically only increase.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040305", "text": "The good news is there is bipartisan agreement that investment in our infrastructure is a worthy investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040306", "text": "On Afghanistan, today at his confirmation hearing, Ash Carter told congressmen that he would recommend changing the plan in Afghanistan, both the pace and the size of the forces -- this was in Afghanistan -- if there's a change in the situation inside Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040307", "text": "On North Korea, the North Korean leader emphasized that North Korea don't want to talk with the United States anymore.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040308", "text": "And what we have seen over the last several months when it comes to Ukraine is the success of a strategy of putting intense pressure on the Putin regime by putting in place sanctions.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040309", "text": "Now, of course -- and I had this conversation with Michelle a little bit yesterday -- of course, the United States military is taking a leadership role, and they are shouldering most of this burden.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040310", "text": "Russia and the separatists it backs have acted in direct contravention of the Minsk Implementation Plan.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040311", "text": "And whether you evaluate the investment climate in Russia or the value of the currency, or future projections of economic growth, that Russia has taken a hit and that hit worsens as the weeks and months go by.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040312", "text": "So we certainly have an important military-to-military relationship with the Egyptian government.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040313", "text": "And Kayla was a young woman who was willing to put herself in harm's way to try to offer that relief.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000040314", "text": "Well, Ed, I don't think the President's record of fighting terrorism reflects that at all.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040315", "text": "I know that representatives from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France are scheduled to meet in Europe later this week to discuss these ongoing diplomatic efforts.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040316", "text": "But they principally were focused on the conflict in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040317", "text": "Earlier you mentioned that the war on ISIL is a long-term challenge.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040318", "text": "That as Muslim leaders would tell you -- those who have studied and practiced this religion would tell you -- Islam is a peaceful religion.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000040319", "text": "Some of those challenges include the international response to fight carbon pollution and climate change.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000040320", "text": "We know that Italy has played an important role in the situation in Syria -- they're a founding member of the International Syria Support Group.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040321", "text": "Yesterday, the North Korean high-level government officer announced that North Korea is preparing for the missile launch or a nuclear test that would be at the end of this year.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040322", "text": "Both China and Russia have expressed concerns about this kind of destabilizing behavior from the North Koreans.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040323", "text": "She was talking about covert activity; I think it was in the context of Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040324", "text": "And we also believe that Iran should take the steps that are necessary to resolve the international community's concerns about their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040325", "text": "And that's one of the reasons that we believe this round of nuclear talks with Iran has been so different than earlier ones; that previously, Iran has succeeded in using international talks about their nuclear program to actually make progress on their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040326", "text": "In the context of these talks, we've actually seen Iran roll back their nuclear program in a couple of important ways.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040327", "text": "People are accusing Boko Haram of a crime against humanity.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000040328", "text": "But now, because of the profound capability of the American military -- whether it's UAVs or fighter jets -- that there is a tremendous capacity that our military has to protect our interests around the globe.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040329", "text": "But there may be just some places where we can say, hey, we both agree that we can invest in infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040330", "text": "On that point then, there's an alternative effort on the Hill, led by Senator Corker, to have an up or down vote should there ever be an agreement between Iran and the P5-plus-1.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040331", "text": "You sort of just invited the comparison to China, where our full pool was admitted to most events and also we had a chance to question not only the President but also the Chinese leader.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040332", "text": "They're not saying we're at war with Islam.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040333", "text": "This President, this country, and the international community will insist that Iran agree to verifying its compliance with the broader agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040334", "text": "He called for an end of the embargo.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000040335", "text": "And the reason that argument is bogus is that in previous negotiations, Iran has succeeded in using the cover of diplomatic negotiations to try to advance their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040336", "text": "I wanted to ask about sanctions about Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040337", "text": "Ukraine has also suffered economically from the instability in their country and doing what we can to support them is important.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040338", "text": "But there's no -- the President has plenty of energy and appetite for a fight over policies that are going to benefit middle-class families.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000040339", "text": "And we do see members of the military -- from Jordan, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia and others -- who are flying alongside American pilots, carrying out strikes against ISIL.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040340", "text": "But this obviously is an illness that's a little bit more potent than the flu, and it's certainly attracted the attention of our public health professionals both here in the federal government but also in states and communities all across the country.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000040341", "text": "But the science on this, as our public health professionals I'm sure would be happy to tell you, the science on this is really clear.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000040342", "text": "And one of those that may have come up today with Obama's push for medical research is supporting rescinding the medical device tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000040343", "text": "From Europe to the Middle East and beyond, Tony has a wealth of knowledge and practical experience on all of the major diplomatic challenges and opportunities that the United States faces today.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000040344", "text": "He can look to the weapons and fighters Russia has sent into Ukraine, and to the financing and direction his government provides to the separatists it backs.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040345", "text": "So certainly Russia has been a constructive participant in the P5-plus-1 talks with Iran to try to resolve the international community's concerns with Iran's nuclear program.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040346", "text": "And it's why, as Russia continues to flout those commitments that they themselves have made, that they put themselves at risk of greater isolation and of further sanction.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040347", "text": "Congress on a number of occasions has passed legislation imposing very tough sanctions against Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040348", "text": "Senator Rand Paul has introduced a declaration of war resolution against ISIS.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040349", "text": "Right now this war is illegal until Congress acts pursuant to the Constitution and authorizes it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040350", "text": "China has long said that independence would mean harsh action from them against Taiwan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040351", "text": "The President believes that our democracy has been very well served for more than two centuries by officials at the Department of Justice and the FBI observing longstanding traditions that limit public discussion of investigations whether an election is around the corner or not.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040352", "text": "On the issue of openly transgender service in the military, I asked about this before and you talked about an ongoing review at the Pentagon.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040353", "text": "One of the conditions of the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the P5-plus-1 has been that Iran not attempt to make significant new investments at the heavy water facility at Arak.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040354", "text": "We must not forget that in order to bring this epidemic under control on the frontlines, indeed, the only way to prevent additional cases here in the United States, we need more of these medical professionals.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000040355", "text": "And our critical infrastructure continues to be at risk from these threats, as does the personal information of millions of Americans.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040356", "text": "We have seen significant private capital flight out of Russia because there are concerns that are being expressed by global investors about the state of the Russian economy, and about the stability of the Russian economy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040357", "text": "And this has put Russia in a place where they're isolated from the international community, and it means that the Russian President faces a pretty fundamental choice about whether his destabilizing actions in Ukraine are worth the significant cost to his nation's economy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040358", "text": "For example, the President just last month traveled to both China and Burma, met with the leaders of those countries to try to advance American national security interests.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040359", "text": "The United States, if Russia acts accordingly, remains prepared to roll back sanctions should Russia take the necessary steps.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040360", "text": "So our concerns with the regime in North Korea are different than the concerns that we have with Cuba.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040361", "text": "The goal of the international community is to resolve this conflict in Eastern Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040362", "text": "I don't think that justice necessarily only refers to crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000040363", "text": "WHO definition of an outbreak says that it's something that is an occurrence in excess of what normally would be expected in a defined community.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000040364", "text": "This is a deadly, terrible disease, and it is wreaking havoc in West Africa.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000040365", "text": "Well, but again, Ed, the thing that's important for people to understand is to understand how the Ebola virus is transmitted.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040366", "text": "So this is a worthy investment that many Republicans in states across the country have strongly advocated.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040367", "text": "These are guidelines that were driven by science and by the scientific knowledge that's been gained in the four decades that scientists have been fighting Ebola outbreaks.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000040368", "text": "But we know that after fighting this disease for 40 years, that we can stop this outbreak in its tracks.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000040369", "text": "But he believes that our democracy is improved when more people are engaged.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040370", "text": "And the United States continues to work closely with South Korea, our allies in Japan, and other countries around the region to counter the rhetoric and threats of the North Korean regime.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040371", "text": "I understand how the Army and the broader Defense Department could well have policies that maybe make sense for them that don't make sense to the civilian population.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000040372", "text": "When we're talking about military members, these are individuals who signed up for the military and they're ordered to travel to West Africa.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040373", "text": "Some of that is attributable to the modern medical infrastructure that's in place in this country to treat Ebola patients in a way that doesn't pose a significant risk to the broader community.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040374", "text": "But as it relates specifically to China, I just don't know exactly what kinds of conversations have been held and what sort of commitments that they have made.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040375", "text": "Well, again, a lot of these kinds of decisions are driven by science, and there obviously is a sense of urgency associated with dealing with this Ebola outbreak in West Africa.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000040376", "text": "And again, the only way that we can entirely eliminate the risk to the American people from the Ebola virus is to stop this outbreak at the source, and certainly a vaccine could play a key role in doing exactly that.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000040377", "text": "There was concern that Iran would just use these negotiations as cover to make additional progress on their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040378", "text": "There's been reports that Russia has reached out to Iraq saying initially that they would be helpful in supporting their fight against terror, especially ISIL.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040379", "text": "That's an indication that Russia, at least in that instance, is working cooperatively with the broader international community to confront this threat.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040380", "text": "Again, what the science tells us is that a really important step for us to take in terms of protecting the American people is to stop this outbreak in West Africa.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000040381", "text": "If the major threat here is what's happening in those countries in West Africa, why not -- the United States military has some of the best medical personnel in the world.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040382", "text": "Well, what we believe, Jared, is that science should drive these decisions and science should drive how these policies are implemented.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000040383", "text": "But if you have -- because of the involvement of the Department of Defense, because of the logistical expertise that our American military has, we can make that process of getting supplies and equipment into the region much more efficient and much faster.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040384", "text": "Well, Director Pierson offered her resignation today because she believed that it was in the best interest of the agency to which she has dedicated her career.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000040385", "text": "In the context of the conversations that the United States has led with our P5-plus-1 partners, Iran has actually agreed to roll back key aspects of their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040386", "text": "MR Director Pierson offered her resignation today because she believed it was in the best interests of the agency.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000040387", "text": "And even more critical is our shared goal of preventing Iran from becoming a military nuclear power.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040388", "text": "And that includes making sure that the border between our two countries is properly monitored, and in a way that protects the citizens on both sides of it.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040389", "text": "Never before has a college education been so critical to a good middle-class job, particularly in a modern 21st century global economy.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000040390", "text": "In this case, we've seen the Russians actively support separatists in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040391", "text": "Iranian officials said yesterday that Iran is ready to work with the United States and its allies to stop Islamic State militants, but they want more flexibility on their nuclear program in exchange.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040392", "text": "Especially that Secretary Kerry has been calling on the Turks to close that border and to stop the jihadists from crossing there.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040393", "text": "All of the mayhem and havoc that ISIL is wreaking in Iraq and in Syria is right on Turkey's doorstep.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040394", "text": "As a result of the interim agreement that's been put in place so far, Iran has rolled back key aspects of their nuclear program to allow for these conversations to continue.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040395", "text": "And in the context of those negotiations, Iran has agreed in verifiable steps to roll back key aspects of their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040396", "text": "MR I think the concern is that a significant investment of time and hardware would have been required with the hope -- again, not the conclusion, but with the hope that it could alter the outcome.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040397", "text": "And that means that the international community is at war with ISIL and the United States is at war with ISIL in the same way that we're at war with al Qaeda and its affiliates around the globe.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040398", "text": "Josh, just to follow up, China is saying it hopes the U.S. will be cautious on this issue and not send the wrong signal.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040399", "text": "And you're promoting democracy there and we're still having a conflict here.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040400", "text": "Our democracy is strengthened when more voices and more perspectives and more views are incorporated into the process of governing this country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040401", "text": "And his responsibility to the American people and his responsibility to this democracy supersedes his own personal views, even on really important issues.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040402", "text": "But the demands of our democracy apply to everybody, including the President of the United States.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040403", "text": "That's what makes our military so great.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040404", "text": "And our democracy also demands that, at some rare times, although most recently in 2000, the winner of the popular vote is not always the President.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040405", "text": "That is an indication that ISIL is not at war against the United States; they're at war against the broader world, including the Muslim world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040406", "text": "So we have been focused on making sure that Syria cannot be used as a safe haven.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040407", "text": "Our critical infrastructure clearly continues to be at risk from these threats, as this and other incidents over the last year demonstrate.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040408", "text": "For a long time, Sunni majority countries considered Shia-led countries, like Iran, to be the greatest threat to their country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040409", "text": "But ultimately, our broader strategy when it comes to Syria is contingent upon a ground force that can take the fight to ISIL in that country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040410", "text": "And just one on Iran -- there are already members of Congress, prominent members, who are calling for increased sanctions to accompany this extension in the nuclear talks.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040411", "text": "But there also is an important role for our military to play in terms of providing equipment to Iraqi security forces.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040412", "text": "And both of them certainly proudly served our country in the military, so I would expect that would make -- form some kind of personal bond between the two men.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040413", "text": "As you know, the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan will end at the end of this year, in just a little over a month.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040414", "text": "And again, that was true when he was an enlisted combat veteran, it was true when was in the United States Senate, and that's been true when he's served as Secretary of Defense.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000040415", "text": "There is substantial pressure on Iran, and that, frankly, is why we've been able to make as much progress as we have so far.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040416", "text": "And the difference in this mission after 2014 is that the U.S. military will not be engaged in specific operations targeting members of the Taliban just because they're members of the Taliban.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040417", "text": "The Free Syrian Army this weekend suffered some serious setbacks in northern Syria, if not a total collapse.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000040418", "text": "And we certainly are aware that moderate forces in Syria are engaged in a multi-front conflict, and that multi-front conflict is taking a toll on them, there's no doubt about that.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040419", "text": "If I could ask on another subject -- foreign policy diplomats are telling the AP that Russia has informed the U.S. that it will boycott the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040420", "text": "The only thing that I'm aware of is that Russia declined to participate in last week's preparatory meetings.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040421", "text": "The decision to ask for Ms. Sherrod's resignation was made by the Department of Agriculture, and then the White House was informed of that decision.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000040422", "text": "And that's the decision to ask for the resignation.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000040423", "text": "So the bang for the buck in terms of an investment in early childhood education programs is pretty good, particularly when you're evaluating its impact on middle-class families.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040424", "text": "But one area where it seems like we should be able to find bipartisan agreement would be investments in early childhood education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000040425", "text": "Now, on another issue -- to go back to Julie's questions about Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040426", "text": "This letter was allegedly written in part to bring Iran in to help fight ISIS, beyond the nuclear deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040427", "text": "It's not in the interest of Iran or, frankly, anybody else in this region of the world to have this extremist group rampaging across the countryside carrying out terrible acts of violence.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040428", "text": "Since CNN reported this, the Army has now taken that designation out of this command policy.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000040429", "text": "Again, when it comes to an issue like trade -- I guess the better example I think is infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040430", "text": "When it comes to an issue like infrastructure, we're talking less about compromising and more about just cooperating.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040431", "text": "We certainly would increase the resources at the border, so there would be a significant investment in border security.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040432", "text": "Ramping up the capacity of these local fighters to take the fight on the ground to ISIL in Syria remains a top priority and a core component of our strategy.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040433", "text": "And as we see more states change their laws with regard to marijuana, it makes it more challenging for federal law enforcement officials to enforce the law.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000040434", "text": "So this administration has repeatedly imposed financial penalties and imposed sanctions against Iran because of that behavior.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040435", "text": "But this is an ongoing effort that requires significant vigilance, and it's something that we -- as the President described yesterday, it's something that we take very seriously.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000040436", "text": "It is a policy that requires significant vigilance.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000040437", "text": "But fear, perhaps even outsized fear, is a major factor here in this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000040438", "text": "Also, you pointed out, the President has been drawing attention to the outbreak in West Africa and how serious it is there.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000040439", "text": "We're talking about a deadly disease that is wreaking havoc in three countries in West Africa.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000040440", "text": "And our thoughts and prayers are with them as they fight this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000040441", "text": "Ensuring that we can deny ISIL fighters a safe haven in Syria is a core national security priority.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040442", "text": "So again, these are the military leaders of the militaries who are participating in this broader international coalition.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040443", "text": "At this point, the war against the Islamic State can be seen only as failing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040444", "text": "The United States Department of Defense has very important military-to-military relationships that they can leverage.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040445", "text": "The United States is very interested in working through the U.N. to address so many of the challenges that we're faced with in Syria.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040446", "text": "The British government, who I guess is being the hawks today, is pressing European allies to block Russia from the SWIFT bank network, which is an important financial network.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040447", "text": "So we have seen Russia interfere in Ukraine in ways that the international community is completely unwilling to tolerate.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040448", "text": "And as a result of that, it does put Russia at risk of facing additional economic costs that can be imposed by the United States in concert with our allies.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040449", "text": "We've seen significant capital flight from Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040450", "text": "There is a pretty clear indication that Russia -- that the global, investing public doesn't think that Russia is a pretty good place to park your money right now.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040451", "text": "And in addition to the military columns we've been speaking about in southeastern Ukraine, they're convinced that what they have is the Russian military, that that's who they're fighting there.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040452", "text": "As a result of Russia's failure to deescalate the conflict, significant economic costs have been imposed on Russia and it's taken a toll on the Russian economy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040453", "text": "So as it relates to our principal concern about the threat that's posed by ISIL, the President is concerned about the threat of terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040454", "text": "To the extent that there are parallels here, the President ordered this military to go after Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040455", "text": "They've pledged $4.6 million to the U.N. to address some of this situation, and they agreed to accept 4, 400 refugees from Iraq and Syria.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040456", "text": "And more recently, you've seen the American military take steps in support of some Sunni tribes in the Haditha Dam in western Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040457", "text": "We've also -- the President has also ordered the military to take action in support of efforts to avert humanitarian disasters, such as the siege at Sinjar Mountain and Amerli that we discussed earlier.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040458", "text": "There also is a role for the American military to play in terms of supporting Iraqi and Kurdish security forces as they take the fight to ISIL.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040459", "text": "There is no doubt that the American military can play an important role in tipping the scales here.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040460", "text": "After all, a safe haven in Syria for ISIL would also pose a threat to many of these other countries as well, including regional governments.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040461", "text": "For example, the National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, was in China earlier this week, where she and her counterparts discussed the threat that's posed by ISIL.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040462", "text": "We've also seen the American military carry out some important humanitarian actions at Mount Sinjar and in the Iraqi town of Amerli to avert humanitarian disasters.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040463", "text": "That means that the American military can more successfully use its military might and sophistication in support of a united Iraq, a united government, and a more unified security force as they take the fight to ISIL in Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040464", "text": "The formation of an Iraqi central government that is so critical to our broader success in this endeavor did not involve the United States military; it involved the dogged efforts of diplomacy by the State Department and others who are invested in this region.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040465", "text": "We have seen significant private capital flight from Russia; no longer do private investors consider Russia to be such a prime area for investment.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040466", "text": "Those folks have two enemies in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040467", "text": "The President will also receive an update on the respiratory illness that's been reported in several states across the Midwest.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000040468", "text": "Russia relies on and values the kind of international investments that's been important to their economy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040469", "text": "And that, by definition almost, means that Russia hasn't -- that the sanctions haven't yet had the desired effect.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040470", "text": "There are, despite our differences -- our strong differences -- with Russia about their behavior in Ukraine, there are other areas where we have been able to advance both of our nations' interests on some other topics.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040471", "text": "ISIL is waging a war against the broader international community.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040472", "text": "But ultimately, the responsibility for taking the fight to ISIL on the ground in Syria can and should be Syrian fighters.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040473", "text": "And many economists have made the argument that imposing a tariff like that is actually the worst of both worlds when it comes to the interests of the United States, our consumers, our workers, and our economy.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000040474", "text": "Lisa Monaco has previously cited diplomatic inroads with China as part of the reason why the administration has had some success in limiting and reducing cyber activity -- negative cyber activity from the Chinese.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040475", "text": "Donald Trump had previously threatened to levy some sort of a tax or, if you will, some sort of tariff on cars that were made there that would come back to the U.S.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000040476", "text": "On another topic, the U.N. Security Council has imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Wednesday.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040477", "text": "Today, a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted new sanctions against North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040478", "text": "And his concern is that making an investment here early is critical to trying to snuff out this problem before it becomes a much more widespread problem.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040479", "text": "Russia's actions that are destabilizing in Ukraine have isolated them from much of Europe and the world because they've refused to sort of contribute to the situation in a positive way.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040480", "text": "In Syria, that means ramping up our assistance to the Syrian opposition fighters to take the fight to ISIL on the ground.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040481", "text": "It is not in the interest of Iran for this extremist group to be wreaking havoc across their -- the open territory of their neighbor.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040482", "text": "It is not in the interest of Iran for this extremist group to be wreaking havoc within the boundaries of its neighboring country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040483", "text": "The American military and the American people are ready to support the Iraqi people as they take the fight to ISIL on the ground in their country.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040484", "text": "Well, I mean, yes -- based on the position that I have clearly articulated, that the United States, in the same way that we are at war with al Qaeda and their affiliates all around the globe, we're at war with ISIL.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040485", "text": "And the United States, in conjunction with our partners in Europe, have taken significant action to impose costs on Russia for their failure to observe that basic international norm.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040486", "text": "No, what we would like to see in Ukraine is Ukraine be able to make the kinds of decisions that reflect the will of the Ukrainian people.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040487", "text": "But we have provided substantial security assistance to the Ukrainian military, and that reflects our commitment to the Ukrainian people.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040488", "text": "But what their role will be -- and this is what's real important for people to understand -- their role will not be to roll across the border in a long line of tanks to occupy significant territory in Iraq.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040489", "text": "So companies that are based in the U.S. continue to benefit from the infrastructure that we have in this country.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040490", "text": "No veteran should have to wait to receive the benefits they have earned.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000040491", "text": "I've heard from several countries in the last couple of days that they are working closely with Israel because they have more of a sense of -- they've dealt with a lot of terrorism for a very long time.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040492", "text": "The limits that are imposed on Israel's ability to tactically execute this war are the standards that the Israeli military themselves have put in place.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040493", "text": "I know the summit is not supposed to be about the Ebola outbreak, that there's another focus.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000040494", "text": "In particular, we're concerned about the welfare of the large community of Iraqi Yazidis who are stranded on Mount Sinjar without food, water or shelter, and the Iraqi Christians who have been forced to flee from their villages in the region.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000040495", "text": "And Austin Tice, who was an award-winning journalist trying to cover the war in Syria, has also been a captive.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040496", "text": "The buildup of these forces and the exercises they are supposedly there to support also represent Russian attempts to intimidate Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040497", "text": "And Russia should anticipate that any such move would be met with condemnation and result in further economic cost and political isolation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040498", "text": "And his big concern is that Afghanistan will go the way of Iraq, that we'll leave too soon.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040499", "text": "The need for additional resources to confront the challenges at the border will remain.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040500", "text": "And it's the view of the President that those challenges cannot be solved by the American military; they can only be solved through an inclusive government of the people of Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040501", "text": "Those JOCs, as the military calls them, are up and running both in Erbil and in Baghdad.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040502", "text": "So the response in Syria has been very robust, but it's important to understand that the situation on the ground in both Iraq and Syria is different, and that has consequences for the kinds of military capabilities and risks that are associated with different responses.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040503", "text": "But Secretary of State John Kerry a short time ago in Afghanistan had a news conference where he was saying that the President believes ISIS is a threat in the region and could be a long-term threat to U.S. security.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040504", "text": "First, the agreement to form a unity government in Afghanistan and the restarting of violence in the Middle East.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040505", "text": "Well, as it relates to Afghanistan, the Secretary of State was obviously in Afghanistan over the last day or two to try to broker an agreement between the two presidential candidates there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040506", "text": "What may be necessary in some situations is support from the American military to enhance their fighting position, or to take out key ISIL targets that would allow them to have some greater success.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040507", "text": "Well, the President has authorized the military to use force in this situation based on the limited scope that he has articulated.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040508", "text": "But over the last six months, Iran has demonstrated a willingness to do those things.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040509", "text": "That's making sure that they shut down the border that has allowed the transfer of heavy weapons from Russia to pro-Russian separatists.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040510", "text": "And the activities that we've seen from Russia along their border with Ukraine run contrary to that principle.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040511", "text": "Russia has continued that destabilizing activity, and that puts Russia at risk of facing additional economic consequences.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040512", "text": "Now, one possible consequence of the increased attention to the situation at the border is that it raises the stakes even higher for Republicans who want to stand in the way of common-sense immigration reform.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040513", "text": "The issue that we're seeing at the border right now, Ed, and the issue that --", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040514", "text": "The administration, under the President's leadership, has dedicated significant resources to securing the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040515", "text": "The position of this administration is that we have made an important investment in securing the border.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040516", "text": "In December and January -- on Iran -- you had Democrats like Bob Menendez saying he wanted more sanctions against Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040517", "text": "Well, he didn't say good faith -- he said if Iran fails to reach agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040518", "text": "He said if Iran fails to reach agreement we will very quickly pass new sanctions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040519", "text": "Those steps include things like securing the border to ensure that heavy weapons and materiel can't be transferred from the Russian side into the hands of pro-Russian separatists.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040520", "text": "And the more that Russia plays a destabilizing influence on Ukraine, it makes it harder for them to be secure both politically and economically.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040521", "text": "And Prime Minister Netanyahu said, Hamas will pay a heavy price for the decision to continue this campaign.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000040522", "text": "And the President will announce new executive actions on infrastructure this week.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040523", "text": "Iran has come to these talks in a serious matter -- in a serious manner, I should say, and to its credit, Iran has defied the expectations of some by actually fulfilling the obligations under the Joint Plan of Action.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040524", "text": "But on some key issues so far Iran has yet to be able to make the decisions that are necessary to prove to the world that their nuclear program is exclusively peaceful.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040525", "text": "Then he traveled straight to Afghanistan where he mediated this agreement between the two presidential candidates.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040526", "text": "Over the weekend, Governor Martin O'Malley, who is a potential presidential candidate, when asked about these children down at the border, said, we are not a country that should send children back to certain death.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040527", "text": "During the Bush years, there was strong concern that China was doing a lot of investment into some African countries and not fulfilling its obligations and its promises.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040528", "text": "If anything, the doubts harbored by the administration about Russia and their intent are growing.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040529", "text": "You've talked a lot about the credibility of Russia in the Syrian issue, and said the credibility is -- their influence over the Assad regime is questionable.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040530", "text": "To the political opposition inside of Syria, our argument has been, we agree that a political transition inside of Syria is long overdue and we are deeply concerned by the increasing frequency with which the Assad regime has been willing to target civilian populations.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040531", "text": "First of all, it includes a significant investment in border security, assets that can be used to continue the efforts to secure the border.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040532", "text": "Passing common-sense immigration reform along the lines of what passed the Senate with bipartisan support would add 20, 000 officers to the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040533", "text": "They also discussed Ukraine, including implications of Russia's aggression for European security and the efforts the United States and other allies have been making over the past several months to reassure all allies of the Alliance's ironclad commitment to Article 5 collective defense.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040534", "text": "Mark, as you know, when senior administration officials travel to Afghanistan, we don't often put out the details of that travel in advance.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040535", "text": "There's ample evidence -- if you look at some of the economic data out of Russia -- that those sanctions are having an economic effect.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040536", "text": "So this is part of domestic politics in Ukraine, but it does not in any way affect the United States' relationship and support for the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people as they confront the destabilizing activities of their neighbor.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040537", "text": "No, I mean Ukraine firing missiles now at the rebels.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040538", "text": "Well, what we have seen throughout this conflict in Ukraine are announcements from the Russians that are not necessarily backed up by concrete actions.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040539", "text": "Specifically, the summit will advance the administration's focus on trade and investment in Africa, and highlight America's commitment to Africa's security, its democratic development, and its people.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040540", "text": "And on Ukraine, the administration continues to ask that there be unfettered access for an investigation into the crash site.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040541", "text": "Though we believe a diplomatic solution is still possible, Russia will face additional costs if we do not see concrete actions to deescalate the situation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040542", "text": "It would make the cost of a college education more affordable, or even legislation that would solve so many of the problems caused by our broken immigration system.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000040543", "text": "This administration has shifted resources from the interior to the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040544", "text": "Well, the sanctions regime that has been put in place against Russia is one that has been carefully coordinated across the global community.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040545", "text": "The two leaders consulted principally on the current situation in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040546", "text": "And that's why you have seen an investment -- a surge, in fact -- of resources by this administration to try to address what is a large and growing problem along our southern border.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040547", "text": "The President certainly respects the legitimate interests that Russia has in the region, but the President is also concerned about making sure that everybody respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of independent nations.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040548", "text": "And what the United States has done -- in close concert with our allies, particularly those in Western Europe -- is put in place a sanctions regime against Russia that has isolated them from the international community.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040549", "text": "As millions of women know firsthand, contraception is often vital to their health and wellbeing.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000040550", "text": "President Obama believes strongly in the freedom of religion.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000040551", "text": "She is also the first African American woman to command a ship, the amphibious, dock-loading ship, Rushmore, in 1999.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000040552", "text": "With all that's going wrong in Iraq right now, you have a lot of vets of that war who are questioning whether their service mattered.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040553", "text": "Yesterday, for example, there was an incident that the Mexican military killed 22 people, apparently members of an extortion group.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040554", "text": "So there are countries like Iran and Syria that fit that description, and they are faced with a whole set of sanctions and broader international isolation because of that designation.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040555", "text": "Traditionally, investments in our infrastructure have been strongly supported by Democrats and Republicans in Congress.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040556", "text": "So I'll let the government of Iran speak to their own motivations and their own decisions that they make about the application of their military might.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040557", "text": "Conciliatory remarks from Russian officials, including from President Putin, are nothing but doubletalk if Russia continues to support armed separatists in eastern Ukraine, including through the provision of heavy weapons.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040558", "text": "Governor Perry has invited the President to come to the border when he goes to Texas next week.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040559", "text": "That previous sanctions regime was put in place based on actions that Russia had already taken to destabilize the situation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040560", "text": "The other thing that would -- again, if you listen to Republican arguments about the causes of this situation that we see along the border, they say that there's a lot of -- a lack of clarity about the immigration system.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040561", "text": "Getting back yesterday to the U.S. being supportive of the European Union also joining in sanctions against Russia, you're obviously aware of the difference between Britain and France on the sale of the Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040562", "text": "Russia can decide that no more U.S. astronauts will launch to the ISS.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040563", "text": "We have an important relationship with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040564", "text": "That clearly has had dangerous consequences for the people of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040565", "text": "And we're talking about a serious virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040566", "text": "And just to give you one example, there are some key oilfields inside of Syria that at one point accounted for more than half of ISIL's monthly oil revenue.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040567", "text": "Iran is a country that is subject to sanctions by the United States that we've coordinated with the international community because we know they sponsor terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040568", "text": "Iran has removed excess centrifuges and infrastructure from the Fordow fuel enrichment plant, in line with its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040569", "text": "Russia has steadfastly denied the presence of Russians in Ukraine who are actively working with separatists to try to undermine the central government in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040570", "text": "Last week, incoming administration and South Korean national security agency director agreed to deploy THAAD missile in South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040571", "text": "On this regard, China continues to threaten retaliation against South Korea for THAAD issues.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040572", "text": "In the first briefing that the President -- the press secretary did in 2009, the main foreign policy topic was the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040573", "text": "With regard to Afghanistan, I think this will be the kind of issue that historians spend a lot of time looking at when evaluating President Obama's presidency.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040574", "text": "You have to look no further than Afghanistan to assess just how valuable a contribution that they have made to that effort.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040575", "text": "There is an open question about whether Russia is willing or able to do so, and the last 10 days or so have raised significant doubts about Russia's credibility.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040576", "text": "Russia did play an important role in bringing about the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040577", "text": "We know that Russia shares our deep concerns about extremists that are operating in Syria and other places.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040578", "text": "And in many ways, technology has the potential to strengthen our economy and to make our roads safer.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000040579", "text": "The percentage is somewhat smaller in Syria, but there have been important gains that have been made in Syria, including in key areas along the Turkey-Syria border.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040580", "text": "On North Korea, North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong said that the war already started between South Korea and North Korea, and North Korea might be using their nuclear weapons.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040581", "text": "Those benefits include preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, rolling back key aspects of their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040582", "text": "Many of our allies around the world had identified Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon as their most significant foreign policy concern.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040583", "text": "Iran did agree to settle a longstanding financial dispute between our two countries in a way that saved American taxpayers potentially billions of dollars.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040584", "text": "We got Iran committing to not getting nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040585", "text": "We got Iran committing to rolling back their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040586", "text": "We know that China is actually in touch with other countries who have signed on to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, trying to negotiate their own trade deals with them.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040587", "text": "And they face terrorism from a variety of sources, including most recently and tragically, just over the weekend, where there was a bombing at a wedding, of all places, where dozens of innocent people were killed.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040588", "text": "What I'll just say in general is that the cornerstone of our democracy is the ability of eligible voters, citizens, to cast a ballot and to have it counted.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040589", "text": "So the President believes strongly that our democracy benefits when more people are engaged.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040590", "text": "And the reason for all of that is the President believes that our democracy benefits when the American people are engaged in that debate and when as many eligible voters as possible cast ballots.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040591", "text": "But you cited the sanctions on Iran, the banking sanctions on Iran because of concerns of terrorism and all of that that are still in place.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040592", "text": "We know that Iran supports Hezbollah and the Assad regime.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040593", "text": "What has not happened, and where the critics of the deal get it wrong, is Iran has not enjoyed hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040594", "text": "Iran has not been able to use hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief to support terrorism or to prop up the Assad regime.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040595", "text": "And the amount of money that Iran has received is far less than what critics predicted.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040596", "text": "So Iran was desperate for sanctions relief so that they could address this economic weakness in their country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040597", "text": "MR Because we reached the agreement and Iran wanted their money back.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040598", "text": "And we should be trying to capitalize on technology that makes it easier for our citizens to participate in democracy.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000040599", "text": "And that is a violation of commitments that Russia made in the context of the Cessation of Hostilities.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040600", "text": "But thus far, Russia has refused to do that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040601", "text": "On the other hand, there have been some forces inside of Syria that include some Kurdish elements that have been making an important contribution to our counter-ISIL efforts.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040602", "text": "Earlier this month, the U.N. was unable to condemn another missile launch by North Korea because China wanted the statement to also oppose the deployment of the U.S. anti-missile defense system in South Korea.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040603", "text": "I mean, China is the -- seems to be one of the only countries that has any sway over North Korea, and they're -- and China is raising concerns about U.S. actions in the region.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040604", "text": "Ultimately, China has their own vested interest in seeing North Korea cease and desist from these kinds of destabilizing actions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040605", "text": "That government was threatened by an attempted military coup just a month or two ago.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000040606", "text": "China continues to oppose the program of the THAAD in South Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040607", "text": "The leader of North Korea yesterday said sanctions now ongoing.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040608", "text": "But obviously the United States does have significant sanctions in place against North Korea because of their repeated violation of their international obligations when it comes to their ballistic missile program, and I would not in any way take off the table the idea of additional sanctions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040609", "text": "I guess on to Syria, Russia has agreed to a 48-hour humanitarian ceasefire in Aleppo, but there's -- some security guarantees are being awaited from other parties on the ground.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040610", "text": "And in encircling the city, the Assad regime blocked the very road that the U.N. was using to provide humanitarian access.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040611", "text": "Obviously, three years ago you had a deal with Russia to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040612", "text": "And until the United States had engaged in effective diplomacy with Russia, the Assad regime had refused to even acknowledge that they possessed those kinds of chemicals.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040613", "text": "We've got a test case just over the border in Iraq about what the consequences are for the United States implementing a regime-change policy and trying to impose a military solution on the situation.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040614", "text": "The President continues to believe that a robust investment in infrastructure, particularly while interest rates are low, would have positive economic benefits for the country in the short term, but would also lay a foundation for our long-term economic strength.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040615", "text": "And what's important about the right to a freedom of religion is that every American citizen enjoys it.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000040616", "text": "Well, we certainly know that Russia has expressed some interest in greater military cooperation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040617", "text": "But yet his team's commitment to democracy was strong enough to ensure a smooth transition.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040618", "text": "Republicans in Congress have blocked adequate funding to fight the Zika virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040619", "text": "The North Korean regime has virtually enslaved the population of North Korea and subjected them to despicable living conditions, all because of the policies that are pursued by the North Korean regime.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040620", "text": "Recently, the U.S. government has been able to work effectively through the U.N. and the government of Costa Rica to establish an in-country processing system for refugees or people fleeing violence, I should say, from those countries.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040621", "text": "When he was asked was that hack an act of war, he said in the broader sense he believes yes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040622", "text": "Josh, Russia said today that the U.S. needs to handle this hacking issue on its own, responding to both comments by Donald Trump and others.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040623", "text": "And that's concerning because of the threat that that virus poses to pregnant women and newborn children.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040624", "text": "The fact is ISIL has declared war against the rest of the world, but they don't represent Islam.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040625", "text": "In fact, the President described the United States military and the men and women who serve in it as the greatest fighting force the world has ever known.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040626", "text": "Some of that is a result of the deep investment of diplomatic capital that President Obama has made in that relationship.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040627", "text": "In fact, earlier this month, the United States launched a WTO case against China for export duties that were -- or are levied on raw materials that have critical input from many industrial products.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040628", "text": "In fact, in the midst of the coup, you saw the parties in the Turkish parliament come forward issuing their own sweeping condemnation of the coup attempt, even though some of those parties have vigorous political disagreements with President Erdogan.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000040629", "text": "And today, very staunch pro-government newspaper headline accusing the former General Campbell is behind the coup -- who operated and coordinated the coup from Turkey -- visiting Turkey several times in recent months -- with a picture and the name.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000040630", "text": "Ostensibly, that is what the government is protecting -- is the Turkish democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040631", "text": "And as they protect the Turkish democracy, it's important that they are protective of the principles that form the foundation of that democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040632", "text": "Russia has been unwilling to do that thus far.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040633", "text": "And on Syria, there reportedly is a significant difference of opinion, shall we say, between the Secretary of Defense and Secretary Kerry about partnering with Russia.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040634", "text": "As many have noted, there still is an undue role that the military plays in the government there.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040635", "text": "And if I may, when China had joined the U.N. Security Council on sanctions against North Korea, the Chinese foreign ministry is blaming the U.S. -- it said U.S. behavior for pushing North Korea towards nuclear program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040636", "text": "National security officials who served in high-ranking positions in the Bush administration believe that closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay is in the best interest of our national security.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000040637", "text": "People here widely feel like it's Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040638", "text": "Now, at the same time, less than a week ago, some elements of the Turkish military launched attacks against those democratic institutions that resulted in significant loss of life.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040639", "text": "I should note, under President Obama's leadership, the United States government has made a historic investment in border security along the U.S.-Mexico border.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040640", "text": "South Korea is a democracy, so we certainly want to do this in a way that's consistent with the interests of the South Korean people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040641", "text": "After all, the reason that we have agreed to locate this anti-ballistic missile system in South Korea is for the protection of South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040642", "text": "The Turkish government and the Turkish people have long valued their democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040643", "text": "As it relates to Turkey's membership in NATO, even in those periods in Turkey's recent history where they haven't had a democratically elected civilian government, they've been members of NATO, so that's a relevant fact.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040644", "text": "I think the very definition of a coup is that not many people are aware of a secret plot to overthrow the government.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000040645", "text": "They're the country that has the long border with Syria, so they certainly are interested in making sure that that pressure is maintained.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040646", "text": "Iraq, like many other countries that relies on energy as an important source of income for their country and as an important export in their economy, is struggling because the price of oil is lower now than it's been in quite a while.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000040647", "text": "The percentage of territory in Syria is a little bit smaller, but there have been important gains against ISIL, even in Syria, based on the success that our coalition has had in backing the efforts of fighters on the ground.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040648", "text": "And our men and women in uniform and our commanders in Afghanistan have said that this enhanced troop presence is a genuine priority for the Department of Defense.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040649", "text": "This President was obviously pretty critical of how that war started as well.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040650", "text": "Mayors and governors all across the country, Democrats and Republicans, have identified the opioid epidemic in America as an emergency.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000040651", "text": "Wages are obviously a metric that this administration has watched closely, and we're pleased to see that wage growth is accelerating and has accelerated over the President's tenure in office.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000040652", "text": "At the same time, they've also experienced in Dallas a historic reduction in crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000040653", "text": "And the Zika virus does pose a significant threat to pregnant women and newborn babies in the United States.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040654", "text": "China has indicated that it is going to establish air defense zone in the South China Sea to a certain sovereignty in t region.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040655", "text": "And at the same time, the presidential hopefuls, Hillary and Donald Trump, said that we are at war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040656", "text": "And we've made important progress in that war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040657", "text": "Another key area of progress has been closing the border between Syria and Turkey.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040658", "text": "MR The President, on a number of occasions, has acknowledged -- had essentially declared that the United States is at war with terrorist organizations like ISIL.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040659", "text": "The President has not been reluctant to apply the definition of war against the terrorists that have attacked us.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040660", "text": "Well, no, our view is that it's terrorism because that's what our oldest allies in France have concluded.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040661", "text": "The case that we have made for more than a year now, or at least a year now, is that Russia should use the influence they have with the Assad regime to expedite a political solution to the situation inside of Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040662", "text": "There also is a persistent extremist threat inside of Syria that we know is capitalizing on the chaos in that country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040663", "text": "Because to prop up the Assad regime worsens the chaos inside of Syria, and extremist organizations rely on that chaos to thrive.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040664", "text": "And it is what has caused Syria to devolve into the condition that it's in right now.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040665", "text": "Is he negotiating an agreement with the Russians about military -- what exactly -- I'm a little bit confused about where things stand.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040666", "text": "One thing he said is that he believes that the war can be won in a few months, and that he will remain in power.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040667", "text": "And for the first several weeks that that was in effect, that did mitigate significant security concerns inside of Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040668", "text": "There's a significant extremist threat inside of Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040669", "text": "Quickly -- the President heads to NATO next week.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040670", "text": "And if Russia is concerned about the threat that is posed by extremists in Syria, then they should be focused on trying to hasten those political negotiations.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040671", "text": "Well, again, NATO has a fundamental place when it comes to our national security, and NATO has performed a variety of functions, including in Afghanistan.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040672", "text": "The excitement of NATO will begin on Friday.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040673", "text": "Again, the President certainly believes in vigilance, and he believes that we should be vigilant about protecting our men and women in uniform.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000040674", "text": "I think pretty obviously it is racism.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000040675", "text": "The Department of Defense, including the President's -- including our military commanders on the ground in Afghanistan have been conducting a review.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040676", "text": "What that meant is that the U.S. military did succeed in executing the safe evacuation of all U.S. government personnel from Benghazi 12 hours after the initial attack.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040677", "text": "So there's the war against ISIS and then there's this political war of words that seems to have reached strange proportions.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040678", "text": "Serving in Iraq, serving in Syria is dangerous, and these are men and women who are putting themselves in harm's way on the orders of the Commander-in-Chief to benefit our national security.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040679", "text": "And certainly China has a significant stake in ensuring that that commerce can continue unimpeded.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040680", "text": "But ultimately, it's our democracy that has to deal with the long-term consequences of this unprecedented partisan action by Republicans in the United States Senate.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040681", "text": "Even people like Vladimir Putin have acknowledged that a political transition inside of Syria is required, is long overdue, and is what will be necessary to bring an end to the violence in that country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040682", "text": "Lastly, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, at the NATO meeting today, said that there is more NATO can do in this fight against ISIS.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040683", "text": "NATO has its hands full these days not only with the fight against ISIS and terrorism, but also with various operations that take place in the Baltic right now.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040684", "text": "What's also true is that there is a government in Afghanistan that, frankly, just to put it like really bluntly is a much better partner with the United States than the previous one.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040685", "text": "So the President I think has acknowledged for some time that continued work and a sustained commitment to Afghanistan will be required after his presidency.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040686", "text": "Well, you'll recall, Kevin, that a month or so ago -- maybe it was longer ago than that -- General Campbell transitioned out of the job as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General Nicholson transitioned in.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040687", "text": "I think overall in Afghanistan I don't think anybody can be satisfied with the ongoing violence that we see there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040688", "text": "Obviously, NATO has made a significant contribution to our efforts there, and we've been pleased by the contribution -- by the impact that their contribution has made.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040689", "text": "On another topic, President Putin said today that Russia must boost its combat readiness in response to NATO's aggressive actions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040690", "text": "And our democracy is best served when public officials and those who are seeking power in our democracy willingly engage in that kind of fact-based debate.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040691", "text": "We have made progress, just looking inside of Syria, in terms of regaining more than 20 percent of the territory that ISIL previously controlled.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040692", "text": "We are applying significant pressure against ISIL in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040693", "text": "And as a result of the decisions made by the North Korean government, unfortunately the people of North Korea will suffer.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040694", "text": "One of the candidates is calling for the resignation.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000040695", "text": "And certainly in 2008, President Obama -- then-Senator Obama was deeply of the investment and commitment that had been shown by then-Senator Clinton's supporters.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040696", "text": "He continues to order the military to do things like drop barrel bombs against innocent civilians.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040697", "text": "While this diplomatic stalemate continues the humanitarian situation in Syria goes from bad to worse.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040698", "text": "Both of them were killed while reporting on the conflict in Afghanistan over the weekend.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040699", "text": "Other priorities that come to mind that we believe are worthy of Congress's attention in this period -- the first would be dealing with the opioids epidemic in this country.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000040700", "text": "Since Friday, some of the leaders of the Iran-backed militias have bickered with the Iraq military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040701", "text": "And that kind of ongoing support will be critical to Afghanistan and the international community of achieving our objectives in that country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040702", "text": "There are individuals who suggested that somehow Iran would never agree to this agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040703", "text": "There were individuals who suggested that somehow Iran would never follow through with the commitments that they had made in the context of the Iran deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040704", "text": "There are individuals who suggested that immediately Iran would get hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief if this deal went through.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040705", "text": "In Syria, the number is somewhat smaller, but it's about 16 percent, which represents important progress.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040706", "text": "We've learned the lessons of the previous war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040707", "text": "And under discussion was exploring what kind of technology could be effectively used to make guns safer.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000040708", "text": "But our profound concern about the humanitarian situation inside of Syria is well documented.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040709", "text": "This was the international deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040710", "text": "In Syria, we obviously don't have a situation where we can coordinate with the central government in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040711", "text": "But since we can't coordinate directly with the central government in Syria, we're working with those forces on the ground with whom we are able to cooperate, and we are seeing some progress against ISIL targets in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040712", "text": "And right now they haven't paid a significant price for that.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000040713", "text": "We have known for months that this was a virus that could threaten the American people, particularly as it relates to pregnant women.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040714", "text": "Obviously, China is very upset about this and has raised serious concerns about it.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040715", "text": "And so our national security infrastructure is oriented to monitor threats to that system and to try to protect against vulnerabilities.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000040716", "text": "It was being closely watched in order to protect our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040717", "text": "That reflects the high priority that China places on this policy and on Taiwan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040718", "text": "In Syria, there was the short-term truce announced earlier today, and it doesn't seem like it addresses the fighting in Aleppo.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040719", "text": "On another topic, on the Korean Peninsula, China and Russia today said that they wanted the United States to back off its possible plan to put in an anti-missile defense system near South Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040720", "text": "More than once, China has now expressed its annoyance at this THAAD possibility.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040721", "text": "The first is continuing to fight terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040722", "text": "As one of the nation's top historically black colleges and universities, Howard University is recognized for its rigorous education and legacy of building lasting bridges of opportunity for young people.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000040723", "text": "The significantly lower price of oil has proved to be a significant challenge to that country.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000040724", "text": "The cessation of hostilities applies everywhere in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040725", "text": "Congressman Ken Buck from Colorado promised in August of 2015 that Iran would get $100 billion to $200 billion in sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040726", "text": "Our critics said that Iran would never go along with an agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040727", "text": "And demonstrating our ongoing commitment to implementing the international agreement to fight carbon pollution will also be a subject of some discussion.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000040728", "text": "And we've talked about North Korea and the influence that the Chinese government has with North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040729", "text": "Obviously, we've worked with China to complete the Iran deal that we discussed earlier.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040730", "text": "And look, we know that China sees the same potential benefit if they can increase their ability to do business inside of Vietnam.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040731", "text": "And Trump, in his recent campaigning, has very much focused on trade, including retaliation against companies that would outsource to places like Asia -- in the Indiana primary.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040732", "text": "And if there's any doubt on the part of members of Congress about the threat posed by the Zika virus, then I certainly would encourage them to be in touch with the CDC.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040733", "text": "So in the last couple of weeks, Iran -- we've seen an uptick in anti-American speeches, reports of missile tests, a threat to close the streets of Hormuz.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040734", "text": "It has not resolved all of our concerns with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040735", "text": "I would acknowledge that we haven't seen Iran stop supporting terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040736", "text": "On Iran, you said that your critics went to this wrong assumption that there would be this huge payday for Iran because of the nuclear deal, and implied there that the White House knew better.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040737", "text": "But even at this point, and even hours ago, Egyptian officials were saying that terrorism in this case is more likely than a technical fault on this plane.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040738", "text": "And China makes some significant claims in that region of the world that are in dispute.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040739", "text": "In response to a specific request that I received yesterday for additional information about the Zika virus, I also have a visual aid.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040740", "text": "As you can clearly see, the threat from the Zika virus is only increasing.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040741", "text": "Brazil has a system of laws, it's a mature democracy and it has an established system for resolving these political conflicts inside their country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040742", "text": "But given the significant crisis in Syria, it's clear that those efforts need to be expanded not just here in the United States but in other countries around the world.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040743", "text": "And a global commitment on the part of nations around the world to considering sources of renewable energy only creates good economic opportunities for American businesses and American workers.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000040744", "text": "But the U.N. did a lot of important work.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040745", "text": "But what we certainly have seen here though is a dramatic growth in renewable energy because of some of the policy decisions that President Obama has made.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000040746", "text": "Iraq's security forces, backed by coalition military airpower and the advice and assistance of coalition militaries from around the world, has bene effective in driving ISIL out of territory that they previously controlled.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040747", "text": "And this is essentially money that Iran was not able to get access to because of the sanctions that we had put in place to compel them to come to the negotiating table.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040748", "text": "And what critics of the deal have suggested is that Iran would get all that money and be flush with cash and then use it for terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040749", "text": "And many of our critics have suggested that Iran would never make -- take the kind of actions that are consistent with rolling back key aspects of their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040750", "text": "So critics of the deal who predicted that we would never be able to verify that Iran was going along with the agreement are wrong, or at least on the wrong side of an argument with internationally renowned nuclear experts.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040751", "text": "Iran and other countries that are confirmed state sponsors of terrorism are treated differently than every other country, including Saudi Arabia that's not.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040752", "text": "So the long-term consequences of what's been happening in Syria are serious, but the President does believe that the way that he has handled this situation is entirely consistent with our national security interest.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040753", "text": "Maybe they can explain why they said that Iran would never agree to the Iran deal in the first place, even though they did.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040754", "text": "Maybe they can explain why they said Iran, in the case of Steve Scalise, would get hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief as a result of the Iran deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040755", "text": "But, look, the idea behind this specific rule is to prevent discrimination against a wide range of groups.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000040756", "text": "More than $6 billion in trade has been initiated between Cuba and the United States since then, which obviously has an important economic benefit here in the United States.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040757", "text": "So not end the war, but certainly advantage the side that you want to win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040758", "text": "Which is why yesterday Brett McGurk was saying the humanitarian, the civil war part of Syria was only addressed briefly in that meeting.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040759", "text": "They should explain to our United States military why they should put themselves at risk in that way.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040760", "text": "And a knock on him from a number of critics appears to be his preexisting relationship with Russia, his preexisting relationship with Vladimir Putin.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040761", "text": "But that's going to require not additional concessions to Russia but a willingness on the part of the Russians to deal honestly with their American interlocutors in pursuit of their stated goals.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040762", "text": "Obviously, Russia has faced some significant diplomatic isolation from the international community, including the G7, of which Japan is a member.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040763", "text": "And a tax on government failed to acknowledge that fact, as cleanly articulated by Abraham Lincoln.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000040764", "text": "This is a virus that we know threatens pregnant women and their newborn children.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040765", "text": "Russia and Saudi Arabia have reportedly reached an agreement to freeze oil production.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040766", "text": "Second, we learned that the impact of the virus on fetal brain development is likely starker and more serious than first understood.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040767", "text": "Part of our concern about the Zika virus is also motivated by additional information that indicates that the Zika virus is more easily spread through sexual contact than was previously understood.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040768", "text": "But even then, the administration was mindful of the risk that this virus posed, and we sought to communicate publicly to the American people in accurate form exactly what the risk was.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040769", "text": "And so there are Special Operations Forces in Syria right now -- a small number -- but that small number of U.S. military personnel is working to offer advice and assistance to forces that are fighting ISIL on the ground.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040770", "text": "I wanted to ask you about Iran and the issue of U.S. dollars being used in transactions -- financial transactions by European foreign financial institutions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040771", "text": "But look, we can also fight poverty by expanding the EITC, something Speaker Ryan has talked about.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000040772", "text": "Much of the progress that we have made in Afghanistan would not have been possible without the significant contributions that NATO has made to that effort.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040773", "text": "NATO obviously plays an important role in supporting those missions, particularly the second one.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040774", "text": "Going back to the agreement with Iran, the United States organized the international community to impose sanctions against Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040775", "text": "That is what compelled Iran to the negotiating table and eventually compelled Iran to agree with the rest of the international community not to obtain a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040776", "text": "Because as the Secretary General explained, NATO is not a part of the coalition except that many members are part of the coalition.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040777", "text": "And it underscores why NATO is an important body.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040778", "text": "And it has benefitted from our investment in making sure that alliance remains strong.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040779", "text": "And so given the national security concerns of many of the members of NATO, it's clear that the need to fight terrorism is a priority of NATO member countries.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040780", "text": "And this pursuit of eliminating discrimination in the housing sector is something that President Obama has made a priority.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000040781", "text": "The United States is strongly committed to the defense of our allies, particularly our allies in Asia -- that includes the Republic of Korea and Japan.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040782", "text": "China and the United States are going to continue to work with the rest of the international community in a way that has important security benefits for our allies in South Korea and Japan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040783", "text": "And China fully shares the concerns that we have expressed.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040784", "text": "In January, the President issued a presidential memorandum on smart gun technology that had a 90-day deadline for departments to get back to the White House on what they could do on smart gun technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000040785", "text": "As you point out, this is actually China agreeing to settle this case that we had brought to the WTO.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040786", "text": "And obviously the United States is committed to supporting our partners in Ukraine as they endure a difficult situation.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040787", "text": "All of the work that takes place in Iraq by the United States military is closely coordinated with the Iraqi government and Iraqi forces.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040788", "text": "And obviously when we're talking about the situation in Syria, it's rather serious, and there continues to be concern about all of the parties living up to the commitments that they made in the context of the cessation of hostilities.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040789", "text": "The U.N. would point out it has not described the situation as breaking down.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040790", "text": "But what's also true is that the United States military undertaking operations in the Middle East that result in the death of innocent civilians only makes it harder to accomplish our goals.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040791", "text": "Those forces, though, are supported by the United States military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040792", "text": "And the sense was -- not just the sense of President Obama, but also the sense of the American people -- was that our attention had drifted from Afghanistan and been diverted to the situation in Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040793", "text": "So there's no denying that tremendous progress that we have made in Afghanistan, it has made America safer.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040794", "text": "What I'll just say in general is our concern is that a hypothetical transaction or series of transactions like this would destabilize the global financial markets.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000040795", "text": "Russia did not give direct advance notice of this decision to the United States.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040796", "text": "And we have long said that our priority in Syria is bringing about the political transition in a country that's long overdue.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040797", "text": "After all, it's the political chaos inside of Syria that is the root cause of so many of the problems that we're dealing with right now.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040798", "text": "The root cause of all of those significant problems is the political turmoil inside of Syria, and the fact that President Assad has lost legitimacy to lead that country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040799", "text": "No, the sanctions that have been imposed against Russia are a direct result of their flagrant violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040800", "text": "But a large-scale ground combat operation to carry out regime change inside of Syria is not at all consistent with our national security priorities, and the failure to understand that is a failure to appreciate the lessons of our recent history in the Middle East.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040801", "text": "And some of the progress that we have made in our relationship with China could be undermined by this issue flaring up.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040802", "text": "The President, a couple of weeks ago, welcomed the indication from the United States Army and other government agencies to redouble their consultation with those communities that are most directly affected by the construction of this project.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000040803", "text": "How people understand what's happening in the world is important to the functioning of our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040804", "text": "That many of the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley didn't develop this technology to make it easier for hate to be propagated online.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000040805", "text": "One of the arguments that Bernie Sanders makes and that his voters apparently agree with is that there can't be fair trade when workers in Vietnam earn 56 cents an hour minimum wage versus what American workers make, which is much more.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040806", "text": "So we all share concerns about the impact of globalization.", "issue": "globalization"}
{"id": "0000040807", "text": "We have seen Russia, China, South Korea and Japan come together in support of sanctions that go farther than ever in isolating the North Korean government.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040808", "text": "And even earlier this year, the United States put in place sanctions against Iran because of their ballistic missile activity.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040809", "text": "So to be clear about this, the missile test is not a violation of the joint comprehensive plan of action -- this is the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040810", "text": "Well, it certainly is possible that Iran could face some consequences for carrying out this action.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040811", "text": "And we have demonstrated no reluctance to impose sanctions against Iran for conducting ballistic missile tests that are outside of their international obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040812", "text": "For the last few months, we've been talking about the Zika virus and highlighting the concern that this administration has about the potential for spread of that disease in the United States.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040813", "text": "While we have not yet seen transmission of Zika by mosquito within the continental United States, spread of the virus in Puerto Rico has been a cause for concern.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040814", "text": "You'll recall that our concern with the Zika virus is that it is apparently linked to a particular birth defect.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040815", "text": "But our concern is about pregnant women contracting the virus and potentially having some pregnancy complications as a result.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040816", "text": "On North Korea, I'm sure you've seen the reports that North Korea has told its military to be ready to maybe make a preemptive strike or even to use nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040817", "text": "For most people, the Zika virus does not pose a risk, but it does pose a particularly acute risk -- potentially -- to pregnant women.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000040818", "text": "The set of sanctions that were imposed on North Korea by the United Nations were significantly stronger than the sanctions that had been imposed on them before.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040819", "text": "So us being able to reach an agreement about what kinds of sanctions we should impose on North Korea requires some diplomacy but it's not particularly complicated.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040820", "text": "Fortunately, when it comes to North Korea, we see eye to eye on the most important things, including the fact that the Korean Peninsula should be denuclearized.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040821", "text": "And that's what makes that kind of technology and those kinds of tools so remarkable.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000040822", "text": "But once these sanctions and restrictions are imposed, it will have an impact on North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040823", "text": "Josh, you keep saying these sanctions on North Korea are going to hit the North Korean elites.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040824", "text": "China worked with the United States in a series of intensive, high-level diplomatic discussions to reach an agreement and commit to implementing these sanctions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040825", "text": "But we also know that China is quite concerned about North Korea's nuclear activities.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040826", "text": "And we're pleased to see China using their influence and demonstrating a willingness to coordinate their efforts with the rest of the international community.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040827", "text": "So the package that's been put together at the U.N. is a significant one, and it would significantly tighten the screws on the North Korean regime.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040828", "text": "Turning to the election in Iran -- results are still coming in, but it appears that President Rouhani has secured a more moderate parliament.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040829", "text": "On North Korea, the U.N. is supposed to be taking up a vote on those sanctions that the U.S. and China have agreed to.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040830", "text": "In fact, it's critical to the success of our democracy for independent professional journalists to play that role.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000040831", "text": "One of the core investments of the Recovery Act was in renewable energy, and ensuring that the United States was well positioned to benefit from the clean energy economy of the future.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000040832", "text": "And Ambassador Power up at the U.N. intends to submit for consideration a draft sanctions resolution that would be a response to North Korea's flagrant violations of their international obligations.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000040833", "text": "Obviously, the United States military took a pretty significant airstrike earlier this week that targeted a leading ISIL figure in Libya.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040834", "text": "You mentioned in your slide presentation that unemployment falling below 5 percent is one of the administration's main economic accomplishments.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000040835", "text": "And gain, in the days and weeks ahead, Russia has got some significant responsibilities.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040836", "text": "And by there, I mean in the President's office in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040837", "text": "And obviously we've seen warm relations between South Korea and Japan and one that the U.S. has invested in and tried to bring about.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040838", "text": "That was a key commitment that Iran made.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040839", "text": "And Russia was instrumental in facilitating Iran's ability to live up to that commitment.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040840", "text": "Josh, President Obama back in 2009 called nuclear terrorism the most immediate and extreme threat.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040841", "text": "The Iran deal, the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is probably the best example of that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040842", "text": "The other thing that we know is that Iran supports terrorism -- there's no denying that as well.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040843", "text": "But you did bring up the point that you believe Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040844", "text": "The calculation in Syria is much different because we don't have that kind of effective cooperation with the central government in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040845", "text": "And that's left Iran pretty isolated.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040846", "text": "Even if nothing was going on in Russia, there are a number of challenges that a number of our trading partners are facing -- and that's something I showed you a little bit in some of those slides with GDP.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040847", "text": "Again, their analysis and a lot of other analysis, that's not primarily because of Russia; that's because of weak domestic demand in the eurozone and the need for both some combination of fiscal and monetary policy to address that weak demand.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040848", "text": "A number of emerging markets have also slowed -- places like China that are much bigger trading partners for the United States and much more important in the global economy than Russia is.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040849", "text": "So I certainly think the U.S. economy does face a challenge and a headwind from slowdowns around the world; I just wouldn't locate that primarily in Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040850", "text": "But we have not seen Russia follow through on those promises and, as a result, that sanctions regime has remained in place.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040851", "text": "As the sanctions regime remains in place, the impact it has on the economy in Russia continues to grow.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040852", "text": "The same dynamic is in play in Russia -- that the decisions that are being made by the Russian regime in terms of flouting generally accepted international standards and Ukraine's sovereignty is also having a negative impact on the Russian economy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040853", "text": "We certainly are very concerned about how Russia has attempted to annex Crimea, and we're concerned about their activities there as well.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040854", "text": "The President yesterday said basically the war in Afghanistan is coming to an end at the end of the month.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040855", "text": "Our judgment was that the embargo that was in place was doing nothing to achieve its stated aims of bringing about a political change in Cuba.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000040856", "text": "On Syria, very simply, we are supposed to be a part of a group tomorrow in Geneva, the U.S. and Russia, who will discuss in a multilateral format the way forward in Syria and the ceasefire.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040857", "text": "I think the first wave of investment in Africa was around infrastructure.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040858", "text": "I think the richness of that diversity is coming across.", "issue": "richness"}
{"id": "0000040859", "text": "And, of course, as Kenya deals with the threat of terrorism, he will certainly express our unwavering support for Kenya's counterterrorism efforts.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040860", "text": "And our Security Governance Initiative looks across the whole approach to fighting terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040861", "text": "On corruption, I think the President has mentioned the issue of corruption at all of his appearances.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000040862", "text": "And in that context, we will be able to verify that Iran is not using its nuclear program for anything but a peaceful purpose and that they're abiding by the limitations that are in the deal", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040863", "text": "A deal with Iran contributes to that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040864", "text": "A deal with Iran should make these GCC partners more confident that Iran is further away from a nuclear weapon and that there are inspections that can verify that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040865", "text": "Syria I think will certainly be on the agenda later today.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040866", "text": "And secondly, on the Iran sanctions, hundreds of billions of dollars presumably when the sanctions are lifted will be available to Iran to create some of the mischief and destabilizing actions that many of these nations are worried about.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040867", "text": "Well, to take your second question first, the fact of the matter is that Iran has been under these sanctions over the course of the last several years, during which time they've been carrying out these actions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040868", "text": "The sanctions have not prevented Iran from engaging in destabilizing activities across the region that are, frankly, very low cost because often they're asymmetric types of capabilities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040869", "text": "And Turkey's operations in Jarabulus and then further clearing operations on the border have made a significant amount of progress on what has been a key priority, which is making sure that you cut off that border area.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040870", "text": "I think, again, generally speaking, we have raised concerns with Russia, with China, about certain cyber activities that have targeted U.S. interests.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040871", "text": "We do have concerns about circumstances where China or any other nation may seek to coerce another country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040872", "text": "And China is party to the U.N. convention on the law of the sea, and so therefore we believe that they and other countries should respect that ruling as final and binding.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040873", "text": "I think with respect to China, we raise all of the same issues there.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040874", "text": "Russia would benefit from there being a political resolution inside of Syria that can end the violence.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040875", "text": "The fact of the matter is we've also made the case to the Chinese that this is not a system directed at them; that this is directed at a threat from North Korea so that they should not have concerns about the deployment of the system.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040876", "text": "The reason we're deploying THAAD is because of the provocations from North Korea and the constant testing of ballistic missiles and the nuclear tests as well.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040877", "text": "On Syria, the President and Emir discussed the importance of reinforcing the cessation of hostilities.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040878", "text": "Our point is simply that that concern with Iran should not foreclose the potential for diplomatic engagement if there's an ability to resolve problems.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040879", "text": "All of the leaders around the table, all the countries around the table have relationships with the opposition in Syria that are important, and the more we're aligned, the more we're going to be effective in that process.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040880", "text": "With respect to Iran, I think our approach has been that we will engage with the Iranians where we see an opportunity to make progress.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040881", "text": "If you look at the two threats that are most profound for them, it's Iran and ISIL.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040882", "text": "Russia, of course has a great degree of influence, however, with the Syrian regime, so we would encourage Russia to press the Syrian government to abide by the cessation of hostilities.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040883", "text": "With Syria, I do think we take lessons from -- well, not just Libya but Iraq that you can't just simply have military solutions to these challenges.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040884", "text": "You shared the Saudis' assessment with Iran and sharing those fears, but you also mentioned a new and improved relationship with the Gulf.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040885", "text": "So, clearly, ISIL is front and center; terrorism is always front and center because of the threat it poses to American lives.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040886", "text": "China has significant interests of its own in pursuing an ambitious effort to reduce emissions and to combat climate change, as does India, as do all those other countries around the table.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040887", "text": "French officials said today that they feel like Russia is mainly targeting the Islamic State at this point.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040888", "text": "And civil war provides the type of openings that extremists prey upon.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040889", "text": "And that investment in renewable energy and in clean energy has significantly benefited what is a growing industry in the United States.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000040890", "text": "I do think you see greater energy within Cuba around issues of civil society, and discussion and debate.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000040891", "text": "So, for instance, just as in China, we were focused on the climate change issue with President Xi Jinping.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040892", "text": "In Syria, candidly it's going to be a longer-term effort to build up a partner on the ground and also to support a political process that can lead to a transition.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040893", "text": "We have, for instance, had very limited military-to-military engagement here in Burma.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040894", "text": "With respect to Ukraine, the President did raise this issue with the relevant leaders he's seen.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040895", "text": "As it relates to China, there are some significant things that we've asked them to do.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040896", "text": "And if I could just one more time on Syria -- the CNN report says that the President has expressed concern that Islamic State may not be defeated if there isn't a political transition.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040897", "text": "I think in Syria the question is going to be how do we align our ongoing military efforts with our training of the opposition and with the political dynamic in the country to achieve our objectives.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040898", "text": "I think with respect to our engagement with Iran, the Supreme Leader has said that there's a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons inside of Iran, that their program is peaceful.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040899", "text": "We've created space for Ukraine to hold successful presidential elections despite Russian efforts to disrupt them.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040900", "text": "And that's produced the strongest leadership Ukraine has seen since the end of the Cold War.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040901", "text": "We've created space for Ukraine to sign an association agreement with the European Union despite Russian efforts to prevent that.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040902", "text": "And we've forged a robust financial support package for Ukraine led by the IMF.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040903", "text": "Our purpose here, again, is not to punish Russia, but to make clear that it must cease its support for the separatists and stop destabilizing Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040904", "text": "Everything we've seen as a result of Russia's actions and the actions that the President has led in the international community over these many months has turned what is happening in Ukraine into a strategic loser for Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040905", "text": "And as we've seen overall, Russia is heading for economic contraction, not growth, a significant reversal from just a few months ago.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040906", "text": "Ukraine is more united in a Western orientation than ever before and has a much greater sense of national identity.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040907", "text": "The sanctions that we've seen so far have been fairly targeted against Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040908", "text": "And indeed, it's the sanctions themselves and then the climate of tremendous uncertainty they create, even with the prospect of more sanctions, that has led to capital flight, investment drying up and the growth projections going down to basically zero.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040909", "text": "And that's why we think Russia is doubling down.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040910", "text": "For months, we've been talking about increasing sanctions against Russia, and sort of the ultimate would be these sweeping sectoral sanctions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040911", "text": "As Tony documented, there are a number of economic consequences that Russia has already had to bear in terms of the outflow of private capital, in terms of the downward revisions in their economic projections.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040912", "text": "We've also seen Russia expend significant sums of money to try to shore up the strength of their own currency.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040913", "text": "Yesterday, North Korea military member had announced that North Korea will attack United States, and especially they point to the White House and Canada with using their nuclear missiles.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040914", "text": "The President has ordered operations in remote places like in Syria and in Yemen to try to rescue American citizens who are being held hostage.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040915", "text": "So we think it's essential to moving education forward as a nation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000040916", "text": "The NEA has directly called for your resignation, and the AFT have said they appreciate the sentiment behind that call -- the two, obviously, largest teachers unions.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000040917", "text": "And those who are genuinely concerned about the border more broadly should also be strongly supportive of efforts to make an historic investment in border security, should be supportive of an effort to level the playing field for businesses who hire immigrants.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040918", "text": "And those individuals who say that they're concerned about the border should also be supportive of the kind of compromise, common-sense bipartisan proposal that would be good for the economy and would reduce the deficit.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040919", "text": "The thing that's important for people to understand just from a policy matter is that the overall apprehensions along the border have only risen by a slight amount.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040920", "text": "The President has asked for money as well to battle terrorism overseas, these terrorism partnership funds, et cetera.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040921", "text": "These critical steps have helped open the door to a college education for millions of Americans.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000040922", "text": "Well, one of the biggest drivers of the increasing cost for students and families has been this investment by states in public higher education.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000040923", "text": "As I mentioned, what the Assad regime has done inside of Syria, and in Aleppo in particular, is shameful.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040924", "text": "And Russia is now engaged in actions that Secretary Kerry, this very morning, described as inexcusable.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040925", "text": "During the presidential town hall last night, a woman rose from the audience to ask the President a question.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000040926", "text": "And certainly, over the years ahead, with the measures that we have taken and with the considerable international presence in Iran, we expect to provide the intelligence community with many more tools.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040927", "text": "Iran has obviously long denied that they ever intended to develop a nuclear weapon, so this is all about civilian nuclear energy.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040928", "text": "The agreement -- the JCPOA agreement is that Iran will finally stop blunting the IAEA's attempt to finish its PMD investigation.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040929", "text": "And this kind of effort to reach a diplomatic agreement about preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is consistent with that history.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040930", "text": "The reasons that you're hearing a slightly different message out of Iran is that this is -- the details of this arrangement have not yet been agreed to.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040931", "text": "The best example of this is Senator Cotton sending a letter to the leaders of Iran, suggesting that they not negotiate with the President of the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040932", "text": "We've got very specific commitments that Iran has made in the context of those political agreements.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040933", "text": "But the focus right now has been principally on the merits of the agreement -- why what Iran has committed to is so important to us achieving our ultimate goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040934", "text": "Back in September, the United States military announced the death of al-Shabaab's leader in an operation that was carried out in Somalia.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040935", "text": "The U.S. military continues to support the efforts of Saudi Arabia and some of their partners in the region to try to address the security situation along their border that they're justifiably concerned about.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040936", "text": "The forever agreement essentially refers to ensuring that Iran lives up to the commitments that are put in place by the IAEA in the form of these additional protocols.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040937", "text": "The things that we have laid out in that factsheet that we distributed on Thursday were commitments that Iran has made.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040938", "text": "Yes, Iran has made specific commitments that were detailed in the document that was circulated at the end of last week.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040939", "text": "And Iran believes that that sanctions relief should be granted immediately.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040940", "text": "On the oil trade, we have significantly reduced their ability to generate any serious revenue from oil.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040941", "text": "Iran today ordered its scientists to start developing nuclear-powered marine vessels for what it said as a response to a U.S. violation of the atomic deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040942", "text": "The extension of the Iran Sanctions Act does not undermine the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040943", "text": "It didn't eliminate all of our concerns with Iran, but it did eliminate our number-one concern about Iran, and that's ultimately the point.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040944", "text": "But the number-one objective of the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons was to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000040945", "text": "He doesn't want any intelligence professional to fear retribution for presenting bad news to the President of the United States.", "issue": "retribution"}
{"id": "0000040946", "text": "And we're hearing some pushback, strong pushback today from some Democrats on the President-elect's picks for Secretary of State and Deputy Secretary of State -- ties to Russia, deals with Russia, views on sanctions, among other things.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040947", "text": "What I will just say is the view that Russia was actively involved in cyber activity that was aimed at eroding public confidence in our political system is the unanimous, high-confidence conclusion of all 17 intelligence agencies in the United States.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040948", "text": "The civil war in Syria has been going on for almost six years.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040949", "text": "There's no military solution to the civil war in Syria.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040950", "text": "But when it comes to Russia, they've spent significant amounts of credibility in trying to describe to the international community their response to this situation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040951", "text": "And so the conflict in Syria between the regime and the opposition -- and we've had a lot of discussions with our partners on this and with, of course, with the Russians and everyone else through this Vienna format.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040952", "text": "And ISIL -- we have not seen them launch major operations in Syria for some time.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000040953", "text": "And, as I said when President Obama saw President Erdogan in Antalya for the G20, one of the main focuses of conversation was this 98-kilometer strip of border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040954", "text": "There is the woman who was the wife of the ISIL leader that was killed in a raid conducted by U.S. forces in Syria.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000040955", "text": "And this woman was facing very serious charges related to ISIL's hostage-taking activities.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000040956", "text": "The border with Turkey is no longer accessible to them, and very significant towns in Iraq, such as Tikrit, Ramadi, Ar-Rutbah, going out in western Anbar Province -- no longer accessible to them.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000040957", "text": "And this is being led to actually enter the city of Fallujah -- this is very important -- it is being led by the Iraqi Army, the Iraqi Counterterrorism Service, and local tribes.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000040958", "text": "Over the past year, the Taliban in Afghanistan has made significant gains.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040959", "text": "The U.S. combat role in Afghanistan ended at the end of 2014, and the President is not considering restarting it.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040960", "text": "Well, again, I think actually what our military commanders in Afghanistan have said about this is that their intent is to use these new authorities judiciously.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040961", "text": "General Nicholson, who recently took command of operations in Afghanistan, has indicated that he was going to conduct a review of our efforts there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000040962", "text": "A couple of weeks ago, the United States military took action in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region to take out the leader of the Taliban who was viewed as a significant impediment to the continuation of those talks.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000040963", "text": "Indeed, last year, the federal government used less energy than we have in the past -- in any given year over the past four decades.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000040964", "text": "And I look at examples like M-Pesa, I look at other examples where mobile technology combined with software has redefined the financial services for many consumers.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000040965", "text": "I'm just going to add one comment to that, which is, in our view, lifting the embargo, frankly, would be an important step forward in terms of our promotion of human rights.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000040966", "text": "Lifting the embargo would bring a lot more activity and a lot more material that is empowering to the Cuban people themselves.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000040967", "text": "So, first, their objection to Guantanamo goes beyond the specific issue of the prison.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000040968", "text": "And Russia is incurring a significant cost for its own actions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040969", "text": "I think Russia has been fully aware that we're planning to undertake the types of steps that we announced today.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040970", "text": "But in order to see a relaxation of those sanctions, Russia has to follow through on its own commitments.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040971", "text": "The focus of our meeting today was really about what we as NATO are going to be doing, and putting forward the commitments that we followed up on.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040972", "text": "They're going to remain a critical member of NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040973", "text": "The EU, even as they have their foreign and defense policies in certain areas, also stressed to us their continued commitment to NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040974", "text": "In order to join NATO, countries have to meet a very clear criteria in terms of their capabilities, in terms of their public support for joining NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040975", "text": "And NATO itself has to have a consensus to invite member states in.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040976", "text": "But it is an expression for our support for Ukraine, our desire to strengthen their security forces, our commitment, frankly, separate from NATO to have sanctions on Russia so long as they're violating Ukrainian sovereignty.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040977", "text": "Finland also cooperates closely with NATO and NATO member states in terms of their security policies.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000040978", "text": "We've seen war in the middle of Europe in the '90s.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040979", "text": "And the war in Iraq had dominated American foreign policy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000040980", "text": "And we continue to face challenges from terrorism, from migration, from Russia, as I mentioned.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000040981", "text": "It would contribute to global GDP $190 billion and would support up to 60, 000 additional U.S. jobs in technology and manufacturing.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000040982", "text": "And we've worked with China to enlist them in the effort to fight the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040983", "text": "And then, of course, as is always the case when we meet with China we'll have a discussion around areas where we have differences -- not just cybersecurity, but issues related to human rights and universal values.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040984", "text": "In North Korea, they've taken a very strong line to support the notion that denuclearization has to be the goal of any discussions with North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040985", "text": "And China obviously has a key role to play there.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040986", "text": "And right now the trade in these cover lines is about $1 trillion, and we'd expect it to grow significantly for the benefit of consumers and the benefits of producers, including a lot of products made in the United States.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000040987", "text": "And what our message is to Russia is there's an agreement that you reached with the government in Kyiv, and you just abide by that agreement.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040988", "text": "Well, Major, I think our position on Ukraine is well known, and it's manifested in our sanctions and our policy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040989", "text": "And the pattern of imposing consequences on Russia when we see an escalation is also established, as well.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040990", "text": "And at the end of the day, again, I think the people of China are going to determine the future of their country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040991", "text": "Next year, early next year, China has agreed to give us their first version of their negative list.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040992", "text": "Ben, on the issue of Ukraine, you said Russia's recent actions have become a recipe for isolation from the international community, yet we sit here in the second largest economy where certainly that's not the case.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000040993", "text": "China obviously has not traditionally joined efforts to impose economic sanctions on other countries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040994", "text": "We want Russia to be a stabilizing force to work together on issues that we care about like nuclear security and nonproliferation and European security.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000040995", "text": "Technology really can help us bring efforts to scale.", "issue": "Technology"}
{"id": "0000040996", "text": "Look, we've seen very strong statements of condemnation from China about North Korea's recent nuclear test.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040997", "text": "I think China has grown more serious, they've taken steps that they've never taken before in terms of the previous U.N. Security Council resolution and the nature of their condemnations of North Korea's actions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000040998", "text": "And at a time when North Korea is testing nuclear devices, it's all the more imperative that the world expresses its commitment to ban testing.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000040999", "text": "I think China has raised these concerns about the THAAD system.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041000", "text": "This in no way is directed at China, it's directed at the threat from North Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041001", "text": "So I think the U.S. military is postured in a way in which we're going to be able to be present and to meet the challenges of the 20th century in this part of the world.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041002", "text": "In previewing the President's trip to Laos, Ben acknowledged the legacy of war that the United States has with Laos.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041003", "text": "This is an unfortunate and violent legacy of war that ended I guess four decades ago now.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041004", "text": "In the Great Depression, 2 percent of wealth was lost as a result of the crash in the stock market and the fall in home prices.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000041005", "text": "In this crisis, it was precipitated by an 18 percent loss of wealth because home ownership was much more widespread and house prices fell even more.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000041006", "text": "China seems to have abandoned its pledge not to militarize features in the South China Sea, with aerial photography showing the deployment of anti-aircraft guns and other weapons systems.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041007", "text": "A number of European countries have summoned the ambassadors of Russia and Iran over events in Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041008", "text": "Well, how our democracy responds to this situation is an important question, and a question that the President and his team is very focused on.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041009", "text": "That is, after all, why the President-elect called on Russia to hack Secretary Clinton's email.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041010", "text": "There was one war or another, and not all of those wars were inherited by President Obama.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041011", "text": "The virus causes a mild illness in most people.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041012", "text": "And we began to be concerned that this virus could potentially be associated with serious complications of pregnancy.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041013", "text": "We've made this disease nationally notifiable.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000041014", "text": "And finally, there's the issue with a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041015", "text": "And that's the reason why, even though for years we've had the threat of Dengue exploding as a big outbreak, it hasn't happened.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000041016", "text": "Well, I think we are clearly better prepared for an outbreak like Zika than we were, let's say, a year or so ago.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000041017", "text": "German Chancellor Angela Merkel kind of angrily denounced Russia today for what she says are airstrikes in Syria sort of backing the Assad regime.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041018", "text": "But our position has long been here in the United States that Russia is enabling the Assad regime as they carry out terrible acts of violence against innocent civilians.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041019", "text": "South Korea is a treaty ally of the United States, and we take those obligations quite seriously.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041020", "text": "We're committed to the security of South Korea, and that is exactly what this technology is intended to address, which is the threat that emanates from North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041021", "text": "But, again, if it goes to whether or not China is taking this seriously, I think that is one data point to indicate to you that they are.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041022", "text": "And that's why we feel like China can be a partner with the rest of the international community in trying to resolve this situation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041023", "text": "And again, the public comments that we've seen from China are entirely consistent with the concerns that the United States and our allies in South Korea and Japan have expressed.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041024", "text": "The percentage is smaller inside of Syria; we faced more significant challenges there for a variety of reasons.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000041025", "text": "And after running into some significant resistance now in Iraq and in Syria, there are some indications that ISIL leaders may be turning their attention to another country that is experiencing some significant political turmoil, and that is Libya.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000041026", "text": "They have, of course, been backed by U.S. military and coalition military aircraft that have taken strikes to help them perform more effectively on the battlefield.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041027", "text": "More broadly, the President's budget doubles clean energy research and development -- it calls for a $7.7 billion investment in early-stage R&D on clean energy.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041028", "text": "We got 90 percent of the increased investment that the President called for.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041029", "text": "In answer to your second question, we described the oil tax as about $10 per barrel.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000041030", "text": "We worked closely with the military, with DOD, to see the results of their review of compensation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041031", "text": "Investments in helping fight the opioid epidemic across America is another good example.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000041032", "text": "So strengthening mosquito surveillance before you have to get human disease is a priority for us.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000041033", "text": "We share a concern about Haiti, though -- the mosquitoes are there, the virus is there, and the population is quite vulnerable.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041034", "text": "Well, Jeff, the administration has been concerned about the situation in Ukraine for quite some time now.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041035", "text": "The two nations that most vociferously oppose this agreement are China -- you look at Xi.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041036", "text": "Economically, trade always makes sense.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000041037", "text": "But we haven't gotten everything that Russia committed to provide, which is sufficient leverage on the Assad regime to allow for the delivery of humanitarian assistance.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041038", "text": "Governor, the President in his opening remarks to you mentioned Zika and fighting disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000041039", "text": "And clearly, as we now find ourselves in a global marketplace, international trade is of significant importance to the states.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000041040", "text": "We've had international trade grow faster probably in Utah than any state in America over the last five or six years.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000041041", "text": "As announced in Munich a little over a week ago, this cessation of hostilities will apply to all parties in Syria except for ISIL, except for al-Nusra and other terrorist groups that have been so designated by the U.N. Security Council.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000041042", "text": "And it will make a compelling case that closing the prison is clearly in our national security interest, but also will reflect the need for the United States government to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000041043", "text": "The President included in his budget a substantial investment in upgrading cybersecurity not just of the government but also for the private sector and for individual citizens.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041044", "text": "And Assad -- if it's possible to have a solution in Syria that leaves Assad in power.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000041045", "text": "Even this provision about reserving 25 percent of the seats in the legislature for the military is something that doesn't reflect the kinds of broad democratic principles that we'd like to see Burma adopt.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041046", "text": "China has a significant stake in protecting the free flow of commerce in the South China Sea, as they, I understand, have even previously acknowledged.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041047", "text": "Moreover, both inflation and interest rates are also somewhat lower than we had forecast in November.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041048", "text": "And there are important investments here in the Title I program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, an important $3 billion investment towards the goal of making sure teachers are full prepared and fully supported throughout their careers.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041049", "text": "Infrastructure is critical to creating good middle-class jobs, and it's also critical to our long-term competitiveness in a global economy.", "issue": "Infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041050", "text": "Infrastructure is critical to all of this, and we're not where we need to be.", "issue": "Infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041051", "text": "Everyone agrees our infrastructure is outdated; it needs to be modernized.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041052", "text": "It means investing in making sure our technology stays ahead of other countries, whether that's in space or other research and development.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000041053", "text": "Everybody agrees that we have to fix our infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041054", "text": "We've got new announcements on foreign direct investment, on railways, defense and insurance.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041055", "text": "The situation in Afghanistan, the leaders reviewed, including India's continued commitment to the Afghan government.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041056", "text": "And they discussed the support for democracy and human rights that are so fundamental to the U.S.-India relationship, and what we can do to lead by example and also to advocate for those values around the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041057", "text": "Well, on your latter part, the United States is quickly moving towards surpassing Russia as a defense exporter to India.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041058", "text": "India obviously has a longstanding defense relationship with Russia, but our relationship is on the upswing.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041059", "text": "And so we're very confident in the increasing defense ties, even though we recognize there's a longstanding and legacy relationship with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041060", "text": "With respect to trade and cyber issues, the United States has made very clear that we want China to play by the same rules as everybody else.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041061", "text": "On CBS, Denis said that we're at war with al Qaeda.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041062", "text": "So, no, look we've always said that we're at war with al Qaeda and its affiliated networks, that that's been an ongoing effort.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041063", "text": "Again, India will continue to have relations with Russia, but we believe that it's important for us to be representing democratic values.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041064", "text": "You mentioned Russia and the importance of following the rules of the road and respecting the sovereignty of neighbors.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041065", "text": "They touched on the issue of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041066", "text": "We know that the Russian military continues to maintain advanced air defense systems in eastern Ukraine.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041067", "text": "All of this underscores the degree to which Russia has essentially thumbed their nose at the commitments that they made in the context of the Minsk negotiations.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041068", "text": "And obviously, the United States has made a significant financial commitment to Ukraine; the IMF has made an important financial commitment to Ukraine and their economy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041069", "text": "As is true in the United States, making these kinds of commitments to reduce carbon pollution post-2020 are not easy.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000041070", "text": "And we are interested in seeing North Korea come into compliance with a whole set of U.N. rules and regulations that they have flouted when it comes to their nuclear program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041071", "text": "At the same time, frankly, the most important thing that Russia can do is to use its unique relationship with the Assad regime to facilitate a successful transition in which ultimately Assad leaves power.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041072", "text": "We have been engaged in a war with ISIL for some time now.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041073", "text": "And to be very specific, if you look at our airstrikes, a significant portion of them have taken place inside of Syria, and that area from Kobani westward.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000041074", "text": "We've increased the targeting of ISIL oil infrastructure in recent days with great success in targeting trucks that were carrying oil that brings significant amounts of revenue to ISIL.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041075", "text": "Now, there, Russia does have an opportunity to fulfill the Minsk commitments that they have made and that the separatists have made.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041076", "text": "We've made clear to China our opposition to the militarization of the South China Sea and continued reclamation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041077", "text": "And it is an important part of our democracy, and I'm glad that we'll be able to do it in a way that all of you can participate in at least this unique way.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041078", "text": "And so many stories that are written about Syria don't make the President look good.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000041079", "text": "The press plays a vital role in our democracy, and we need a strong and independent press now more than ever.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041080", "text": "It's important to remember this shortage exists because Abbott closed the facility -- closed a facility because of safety concerns from the FDA.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000041081", "text": "The American Rescue Plan made historic investment in mental health and substance use -- substance use care.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041082", "text": "You know, our country is facing an epidemic on gun violence that is costing lives every day.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000041083", "text": "Over the past 15 months, we've made tremendous progress in our fight against COVID, with 220 million Americans fully vaccinated and over 100 million people boosted.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041084", "text": "And while COVID isn't over, it's critical that Americans know that we now have more tools than ever to protect ourselves.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041085", "text": "After the severe and sweeping sanctions on the Central Bank of Russia, the Department of Treasury issued General License 9 to provide for an orderly transition so that the bond holders could get paid.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041086", "text": "Russia should immediately cease its war on Ukraine, which is devastating global food security, and allow the free flow of Ukrainian food.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041087", "text": "The people of Ukraine continue to inspire the world with their courage and resolve as they fight bravely to defend their country and their democracy against Russian aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041088", "text": "Including Russia's decision to invade Ukraine, multiple successive variants of COVID, and lockdowns in China.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041089", "text": "So that includes Russia's decision to invade Ukraine; multiple successive variants of COVID, as I've mentioned already; and the lockdowns in in China.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041090", "text": "China has called for the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner to investigate mass shootings and gun violence in the U.S.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041091", "text": "So, this is, again, China requesting the U.N. Human Rights Commissioner to investigate mass shootings and gun violence in the U.S.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041092", "text": "There's a war in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041093", "text": "The sanctions have actually had effect on Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041094", "text": "Five former Treasury Secretaries, yesterday, from bipartisan administrations, say it will fight inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041095", "text": "All have said that it will fight inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041096", "text": "That is going to fight inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041097", "text": "More than 2, 000 military members have lost their lives in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041098", "text": "You guys were criticizing his handling of COVID last week.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041099", "text": "And so there are things that this President has done because of his leadership -- somebody was asking me about NATO -- that is also important as well.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041100", "text": "So the President reiterated the United States support for Ukraine as they defend themselves from Russian aggression, including yesterday's announcements of nearly $3 billion in weapons and equipment.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041101", "text": "And we also know -- this last piece here -- is that independent experts, like Goldman Sachs, agree that the President's plan will not have -- will not have any meaningful impact on inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041102", "text": "This is -- you know, the Kremlin decided that they didn't want Ukraine to be a democracy, but it is a democracy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041103", "text": "Again, they are fighting for their democracy, and that matters.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041104", "text": "But the administration argued in court that the pandemic is over at the southern border to lift Title 42.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000041105", "text": "Look, the administration has made progress on its promises regarding marijuana.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000041106", "text": "We are committed to addressing the teacher shortage and giving students, families, and educators the resources they need for a successful and safe schoolyear this year.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000041107", "text": "For far too many years, the overdose epidemic has been destroying American lives and causing pain and heartbreak for families across the country.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000041108", "text": "As the President said in the State of the Union, beating the overdose epidemic is a key part of his agenda.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000041109", "text": "So you've already seen our commitment to Ukraine for the long term, as it's related to what we announced last week, which is about $3 billion, which was the largest once -- once -- at-once tranche that we've announced.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041110", "text": "He is arguing that they're a threat to democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041111", "text": "That is a long-term investment that you are seeing from this administration to the folks in Mississippi and to the people in Jackson.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041112", "text": "Because he thinks our democracy is at risk.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041113", "text": "We're talking about having that generational wealth that's so important for brown -- brown and Black communities that they don't have.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000041114", "text": "They've called for a national ban on abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000041115", "text": "A price cap on Russia -- on Russian oil is a powerful tool -- one part of the tool in our agenda to put downward -- to put downward pressure on global energy prices in a way that will benefit consumers in the U.S. and globally.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041116", "text": "The former President was criticized for using military many different times in many different settings.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041117", "text": "And then, just on COVID, there's a projection that the administration could run out of tests in another -- if there's another major COVID wave.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041118", "text": "Intel made this investment in manufacturing jobs investment because of the CHIPS and Science Act, because of the commitment that we're making to manufacturing jobs.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041119", "text": "We agree that the border is secure, but there is still more work to be done.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041120", "text": "We know that Russia was one of the African countries that didn't go -- that refused to be dragged into the proxy war between the U.S. and Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041121", "text": "To support these and other efforts, President Biden's fiscal year 2023 budget request calls for a historic investment of $42.5 billion for national drug control agencies.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041122", "text": "We have to remember this is an unpopular war that was started by the Kremlin -- a brutal war that was started by the Kremlin, an unprovoked war against Ukraine.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041123", "text": "We do not seek conflict with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041124", "text": "Iran must end its use of violence against women for exercising their fundamental freedoms.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041125", "text": "We have concerns with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041126", "text": "Look, you know, the consequences of a nuclear use by Russia -- the President was very clear about this, especially during his 60 Minutes interview -- would be disastrous for the world and Russia would be a pariah on the world stage.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041127", "text": "There's that report out of the U.N. today about potential alleged war crimes in Russia, including sex crimes of very young and very old Ukrainian people.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000041128", "text": "We have been working closely with Ukraine on this issue and welcome Ukrainians' perspective on this process, how we move forward.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041129", "text": "It is past time for this war to end, and it is up to Mr. Putin to end this war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041130", "text": "This war was started by the Kremlin.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041131", "text": "He can end this war today if he chooses to.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041132", "text": "Two Americans who were captured while fighting Russia in Ukraine were released this week.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041133", "text": "Ending the Yemeni war is a priority of the President's.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041134", "text": "We are committed to make sure that Ukraine is able to fight for their freedom.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041135", "text": "This -- they are fighting for their democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041136", "text": "And then, also, on Iran, we saw continued protests in Iran over the weekend.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041137", "text": "Iran must end its use of violence against women for exercising their fundamental freedoms.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041138", "text": "Though I would add that Russia itself has said many times that a nuclear war cannot be won and should never be fought.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041139", "text": "In occupied areas of Ukraine, Russian forces have committed war crimes and atrocities -- killed thousands of civilians and subjected thousands more to filtration operations.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041140", "text": "Regardless of Russia's claims, this remains Ukrainian territory, and Ukraine has every right to continue to fight for their full sovereignty.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041141", "text": "And we will continue to stand with Ukraine as they defend their territory and sovereignty as we have been doing for the past several months.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041142", "text": "We will not be deterred from supporting Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041143", "text": "And I will say that attacks on critical infrastructure of our European and NATO Allies is a matter of concern for us.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041144", "text": "And, you know, we will continue to stand with the people of Ukraine as they defend their territory.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041145", "text": "Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia has the right to defend itself with nuclear weapons and that NATO would be too scared of a nuclear apocalypse to retaliate.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041146", "text": "There is one person responsible for this war, this war that was started by the Kremlin, this war that was started by Putin", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041147", "text": "Putin is the one that could stop this war any time.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041148", "text": "Many of them do not want to fight this war or die for this war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041149", "text": "And what we're seeing in Ukraine is we're seeing the Ukrainian people bravely -- bravely defend their fre- -- their freedom, bravely defend their sovereignty.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041150", "text": "And to be clear, we will not be deterred from supporting Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041151", "text": "This announcement is just the latest historic investment in America spurred by President Biden's economic plan and his commitment to rebuilding American manufacturing.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041152", "text": "As a result of these actions, millions of women are facing barriers to critical healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041153", "text": "And then on Iran, there's been a notably different posture from administration this time around with the protests when compared to 2009 and those protests.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041154", "text": "Iran must end its use of violence against its own citizens simply for exercising their fundamental freedoms, their fundamental rights.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041155", "text": "And Putin's war has increased gas prices at the pump.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041156", "text": "And their -- that decision about their sovereignty, about their freedom, about their democracy will be made with them.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041157", "text": "This war can end today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041158", "text": "This is a war that can end right now, today, if -- if Vladimir Putin wants it to.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041159", "text": "So, as you know -- and you kind of laid it out -- the United States has provided Ukraine with robust bipartisan support as Russia wages its brutal war against Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041160", "text": "It should be something that is decided between a woman and her doctor, her family, not -- not politicians.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000041161", "text": "The -- the threat from these infrastructures or infrastr- -- power stations, et cetera, pieces of infrastructure in Ukraine -- Ukraine being demolished must increase concern about Ukrainians' ability to have power, to have water and heat.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041162", "text": "Going back to the speech, the President mentioned his decision on marijuana during the speech.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000041163", "text": "And -- but at the same time, Putin's war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041164", "text": "His war on Ukraine -- his unprovoked war, brutal war on Ukraine continues.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041165", "text": "When it comes to inflation, it is the -- his number-one economic priority, and he is doing everything that he can to make sure that we lower prices for the American people.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041166", "text": "One of the arguments Saudi Arabia has made to justify their decision to increase more oil production is that the price of oil is about the same as what it was before Russia invaded Ukraine.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000041167", "text": "There's -- first of all, there are individual state restrictions on abortion in the -- on the books currently around the country.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000041168", "text": "Putin's brutal war on Ukraine is still ongoing, as I just said.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041169", "text": "Again, with Putin's ongoing war, the President wanted to make sure that he completed the one- -- 180 million barrels the President announced earlier this year.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041170", "text": "And I -- and, to my point, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created for this time, for a moment just like this, when there is a supply disruption that is -- has been caused by Putin's war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041171", "text": "There is a war currently happening in Ukraine that was started by Putin -- a brutal war.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041172", "text": "I mean the replenishing at a lower price.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000041173", "text": "As you know, there has been bipartisanship in terms of supporting Ukraine financially and militarily over the course of the past year, since February 24th.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041174", "text": "So, as you know, the United States has provided Ukraine with robu- -- robust, bipartisan support as Russia wages this brutal war, this unprovoked war on the people of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041175", "text": "This is an important -- we see this, supporting Ukraine in their fight for democracy and their fight for freedom, as an important moment in time.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041176", "text": "They want to make abortion a national ban, which means that it doesn't matter if you're in a red or blue state.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000041177", "text": "President Biden and our administration are focused on responsibly managing our competition with China while cooperating on areas where our and the world's interests align, which is important to us, from climate change to health security.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041178", "text": "That does not hurt any- -- that does not help inflation; that makes it worse.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041179", "text": "Okay, I have a question about the war as well.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041180", "text": "And, you know, again, this is -- and I've said this many times -- this is a war -- unprovoked war, a brutal war that President Putin has started, has created.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041181", "text": "He can end this war at any time.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041182", "text": "The Fed actions helped bring inflation down.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041183", "text": "The administration has been leading the efforts at the U.N. today to expel Iran from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000041184", "text": "We have hosted a U.N. dialogue with the special -- special situation on -- of human rights in Iran, welcomed the joint statement by women foreign ministers on events in Iran, and supported Germany's recalibration of their Iran policy.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041185", "text": "The U.S. government will take action to ensure Iran is removed.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041186", "text": "Iran must end its use of violence against its own citizens simply for exercising their fundamental freedoms, their basic rights.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041187", "text": "And, you know, to state strongly and unequivocally that violence has no place in our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041188", "text": "He said, I'm very supportive of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041189", "text": "Under any scenario, to your point, to your question, President Biden is committed to work in a bipartisan fashion, as he has been -- he has been doing to support Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041190", "text": "It -- it would require members across G20 to disinvite Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041191", "text": "And we will be unapologetic in our defense of Ukraine and calling out Russia for its brutal war, as we have been for the past -- past several months.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041192", "text": "We're not saying that inflation is not an issue for the American people.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041193", "text": "He has put forward plans that are bringing new energy and manufacturing jobs to states like West Virginia, to states like Pennsylvania.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041194", "text": "And he has secured critical investment through the Inflation Reduction Act to support coal communities as well, which he believes is incredibly important, which is why it was included in the Inflation Reduction Act.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041195", "text": "On Thanksgiving Day, the President and the First Lady will call members of the military to thank them for their service.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041196", "text": "Just first on Ukraine, it doesn't appear that there was any conversation at all between the United States government and Russia while we were in the midst of that crisis where Russia was being blamed for the incident in Poland.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041197", "text": "So, U.S. and Polish officials have been in touch with Ukraine to clarify the facts.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041198", "text": "But the bottom line is Ukraine has a right to defend itself, as we have said many times, and Russia should -- should end this war.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041199", "text": "This is Putin's war to end and not Ukraine.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041200", "text": "Ukraine needs to defend its country, and they have done that in -- in an incredibly impressive of way.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041201", "text": "Russia could immediately cease its war in Ukraine, which is devastating global food security, and allow the free flow of Ukrainian food and agricultural exports.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041202", "text": "We are continuing to surge security assistance to Ukraine to help them defend that area of the Donbas.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041203", "text": "But at the end of the day, you are fighting inflation, this White House is fighting inflation, and it sounds like the numbers will go up again.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041204", "text": "Not doing so would have serious repercussions for Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041205", "text": "But, again, we are committed to securing our border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041206", "text": "This investment will bring new jobs and economic opportunity to Arizona -- very important to the people in Arizona.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041207", "text": "They want us to continue to fight for democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041208", "text": "Look, before COVID vaccine existed, nearly 700 Department of Defense personnel and service members died of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041209", "text": "The Second Gentleman said today, There is an epidemic of hate facing our country.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000041210", "text": "Following the explosion near the border with Ukraine, Poland just accepted Germany's offer to deploy Patriot missile defense systems to Eastern Poland.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041211", "text": "But initially, the Polish government said that Patriots should be delivered to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041212", "text": "But since that time, U.S. officials continued to press Russia publicly and privately to engage in good-faith negotiations pursuing a variety of different options.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041213", "text": "Russia and other countries have already been willing to wrongfully detain U.S. citizens.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041214", "text": "Again, sadly, Russia and other countries have already been willing to wrongfully detain U.S. citizens.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041215", "text": "Today's announcements also includes critical equipment that Ukraine is using so effectively to defend itself on the battlefield, such as more ammunition for HIMARS and Ukraine's artillery.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041216", "text": "Just today, again, we announced the sanctions to hold Iran accountable for human rights abuses.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041217", "text": "Yeah, but you had said the inflation -- before the midterms, you told me that the Inflation Reduction Act should bring down inflation early next year.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041218", "text": "The updated COVID-19 vaccine is your best protection against the version of COVID we're fighting right now.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041219", "text": "Yeah, so I think the President was also very clear that COVID is not over; COVID continues to pose a challenge for us.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041220", "text": "And then -- I'm sorry -- back on COVID, something that Dr. Jha talked a lot about -- the importance of Americans getting vaccinated.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041221", "text": "So, look, Russia's conduct in -- in Ukraine is -- is a violation of the U.N. Charter and is an affront to the core mandate of the Security Council.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041222", "text": "And we have worked to prevent Russia from taking leadership positions elsewhere in the U.N. system.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041223", "text": "Unfortunately, we don't see the U.N. -- we don't see the U.N. rules changing.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000041224", "text": "It -- it would be wrong to think that the border is open.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041225", "text": "And, again, if congressional Republicans are serious about dealing with the challenges that we're seeing at the border, they will assist.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041226", "text": "Belarus has enabled Russia's war against Ukraine, providing support for Russia and allowing Belarusian territory to be used as a staging ground for Russian forces.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041227", "text": "On COVID, you all relaunched the program where people can order tests online last week through USPS.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041228", "text": "The World Health Organization is calling on China to release more data, which is vital to the identity -- to identify any potential variants.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041229", "text": "House Republicans promised that fighting inflation during the midterms was going to be their number one priority.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041230", "text": "We want to continue to fight inflation, which is the President's number one economic priority.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041231", "text": "So, our job is to keep supporting Ukraine on the battlefield so that they're in the best position -- in the best position to negotiate at the table when that does occur.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041232", "text": "Russia's war in Ukraine is a violation of international law and serves as a threat to global peace and security.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041233", "text": "The United States will support Ukraine as long as it takes in the face of this unprovoked war of aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041234", "text": "Look, irregular ma- -- migration is certainly one of the key issues facing our hemisphere.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000041235", "text": "But increasing the supply of affordable housing is a priority of this administration.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000041236", "text": "This investment will create 2, 500 jobs in Georgia and represent the single-largest investment in solar manufacturing in U.S. -- in the United States.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041237", "text": "Russia announced today that they're replacing their military chief in Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041238", "text": "But again, this is a war that they started.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041239", "text": "This is a war that they created -- a brutal war -- and they can end it today if they choose to do so.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041240", "text": "Last week, President Biden said that the war in Ukraine is at a critical point.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041241", "text": "So, look, holding big -- big technology, big tech accountable has been a priority for this President since the mo- -- since the day he took office.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000041242", "text": "And then, I -- sort of looking back to the summit, there were not major announcements on the border or fentanyl.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041243", "text": "And on the border, we were wondering -- there were not Republican members of Congress with the President.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041244", "text": "We are going to continue to support Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041245", "text": "And so, we will continue to support Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041246", "text": "So that is from the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economics Research, again, determines the definition of recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041247", "text": "Over the weekend, the British government confirmed it was sending tanks to Ukraine for the first time.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041248", "text": "And he's facing 12 years in prison for just criticizing Lukashenka's regime.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000041249", "text": "We will continue to communicate to China the implications of providing material support to Russia's war against Ukraine.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041250", "text": "And we will continue to communicate to China the implican- -- implications of providing material support to Russia's war against Ukraine.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041251", "text": "As DOJ explain, Amirov was a resident in Iran when this plot developed, but that did not prevent him from now facing American justice.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041252", "text": "The government of Iran continues to plot the murder of dissidents and American citizens, including current and former U.S. officials.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041253", "text": "So, when you talk about infrastructure, you say it's important for the President to have a chance to speak directly to the American people.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041254", "text": "Millions of borrowers were negatively impacted by the pandemic and faced risk of default on their loans.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000041255", "text": "We see -- we're seeing inflation moderate just a bit, as we've seen the last couple of months.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041256", "text": "So, we continue to make progress fighting inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041257", "text": "Again, I don't want to get ahead of the military or the intelligence community as they're trying to really figure out what these objects are.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041258", "text": "Three years ago today, that Phase One trade deal went into effect, and China has basically ignored that deal since President Biden has gotten into the office.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041259", "text": "We -- it is up to China to decide how they want to move forward with this relationship.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041260", "text": "As the President made clear in Europe this week, the United States will continue to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041261", "text": "The President and his administration will continue fighting for all Americans and their dignity because equality under the law isn't just a slogan, it's a bedrock principle of our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041262", "text": "The -- we're talking about fighting for democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041263", "text": "And secondly, China says it wants a role in ending the conflict in Ukraine.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041264", "text": "A year ago -- almost exactly a year ago -- before the invasion by Russia, the administration was very quick to turn over declassified intelligence to demonstrate that Russia was planning this.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041265", "text": "So, a year ago, before Russia invaded Ukraine, the administration was very quick to present declassified intelligence that said Russia is about to do this.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041266", "text": "This time around, the accusation has been made by the administration that China is actively considering providing lethal aid to Russia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041267", "text": "But we have been clear with China from the beginning on the consequences and implications of providing this kind of support to Russia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041268", "text": "On Ukraine, when the President was in Poland, people were pleading with him to provide F-16s to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041269", "text": "But clearly, making sure that our children get the education that they so deserve is certainly important to this President.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041270", "text": "The United States will continue to rally the world to support Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041271", "text": "These contributions are making a significant difference, enabling Ukraine to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041272", "text": "Russia alone could end this war today if they wished.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041273", "text": "They could end this war today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041274", "text": "Until they are willing to do so, we will continue to strengthen Ukrainians' military on the battlefield so that they will be in the strongest possible position at any future negotiation at the table.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041275", "text": "But -- but, look, Mary, we want this war to end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041276", "text": "We want this war to end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041277", "text": "And so what we're going to continue to do is support Ukraine the best way that we can.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041278", "text": "But the IRA's benefits expand beyond the U.S. Our investment will help drive down costs for clean energy, which will help other nations as well.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041279", "text": "It'll focus on, clearly, Ukraine, that continued coordination and support for the Ukrainian people, as they are bravely fighting for their democracy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041280", "text": "And then, when it reached a certain point -- and crime is a big issue in America in certain cities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000041281", "text": "The whole -- and we also understand that the way that we got here is because of COVID-19, it's because of Russia's war against Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041282", "text": "All of those things have disrupted global energy, food supplies, and caused inflation to spike around the world.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041283", "text": "And we believe that Russia's war in Ukraine has put China in a difficult position to actually -- you know, to actually move forward in that direction.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041284", "text": "Every step China takes towards Russia makes it harder for China with Europe and other countries around the world.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041285", "text": "And you'll see -- when you see his commitment to crime -- you'll see that in his -- in his budget next week.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000041286", "text": "China is going through its party Congress process right now, and they're expected to implement the biggest government reshuffle in a decade over there.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041287", "text": "While she was labor secretary of California, the -- during COVID -- the state lost between $20 billion and $32 billion in unemployment insurance to fraudsters.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041288", "text": "The Attorney General described it as an epidemic.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000041289", "text": "I also wanted to ask you about education for practi- -- -- excuse me -- practitioners, doctors who perform abortions in certain states.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041290", "text": "And not only that, you saw an -- a potential expanding of NATO, with two additional countries, which is incredibly important -- something that the President has worked very hard on these last several months, who has also led on this effort.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041291", "text": "And one of the things that the President will continue to call on is this gas holiday tax -- this 90-day suspension of -- on the federal gas tax, which we think is an easy thing to do.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000041292", "text": "So the administration and the VA are committed to providing healthcare to veterans, and the VA continues to offer reproductive healthcare services to their veterans as well.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041293", "text": "The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has asked for an investigation by the U.N. and accountability.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000041294", "text": "There were protests this weekend in Iran related to the poisoning of the -- the alleged poisoning of the schoolgirls there.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041295", "text": "Women and girls everywhere have a fundamental right to education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041296", "text": "You know, China says that the U.S. hasn't presented evidence that this app threatens U.S. national security.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041297", "text": "Clearly, we do not seek armed conflict with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041298", "text": "But, again, we do not seek armed conflict with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041299", "text": "Remember, this is a war -- as you all know and covered, this is a war that Russia started.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041300", "text": "Unfortunately, Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council, and no feasible international legal pathway exists to change that reality.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041301", "text": "Welcoming Finland to NATO has been a priority for the President.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041302", "text": "As President Biden said, when Putin launched his brutal war of aggression against the people of Ukraine, he thought he could divide Europe and NATO.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041303", "text": "President Biden's commitment to supporting Ukraine is clear.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041304", "text": "And we are accelerating investments in clean energy through the Inflation Reduction Act -- again, a historic piece of legislation that -- that is going to make a difference when we talk about energy security in -- in this country.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041305", "text": "And so the President will never shy away when it comes to our democracy, when it comes to the fabric of who we are as a country and what makes this country who it -- what it is.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041306", "text": "They were happy because Afghan woman made that dress.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000041307", "text": "Afghanistan was a unique situation for many reasons, including already hosting a significant military presence and ending a 20-year conflict.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041308", "text": "The two leaders also underscored the importance of investment in modern, ready, and capable forces under the 2014 Wales Summit Defense Investment Pledge in the face of global threats.", "issue": "Investment"}
{"id": "0000041309", "text": "And any decisions about that -- about any type of military force would be done in consultation with the U.N., with the Haitian government.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000041310", "text": "And she'll be covering healthcare and adjacent issues to healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041311", "text": "Obviously, Russia is denying his appeal.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041312", "text": "The Biden-Harris administration is engaging with Russia through every available channel to bring Evan and fellow American Paul Whelan home, who is also a priority for us.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041313", "text": "I think the gun violence epidemic, more broadly, is devastating.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000041314", "text": "Of course, we want this war to end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041315", "text": "Unfortunately, Russia has shown no interest in ending its unprovoked invasion.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041316", "text": "In many ways, the President's rhetoric today was almost declaring war on the Court.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041317", "text": "Well, he believes that this was done by a war of political power.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041318", "text": "Later today, the Biden-Harris administration will announce a new security assistant package for Ukraine as part of our ongoing efforts to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia's brutal invasion.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041319", "text": "They will discuss an -- our unwavering support for Ukraine and our efforts to impose costs on the Kremlin as Russia continues its brutal war of aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041320", "text": "And so, we cannot have weapons of war in our streets.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041321", "text": "We cannot have weapons of war in our schools.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041322", "text": "Speaker McCarthy reaffirmed a commitment to Ukraine yesterday -- to continue to send aid.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041323", "text": "The widespread bipartisan support that we've seen in Congress for Ukraine has received -- has been critical to those efforts.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041324", "text": "A senior aide to Zelenskyy called the acquisition from Russia a sign that the Kremlin was planning a major new attack.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041325", "text": "And we have been very clear that we will support Ukraine as they defend their country against Russia's invasion, and they will -- and that will continue.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041326", "text": "The President himself called on Syria to -- to help us bring Austin home.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000041327", "text": "The United States is accusing him of a crime under the Espionage Act, and that, therefore, the United States is losing the moral high ground when it comes to the question of whether a reporter engages in espionage as a function of his work.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000041328", "text": "But, of course, inflation is a -- one of the most important things that Americans care about is what -- what we're doing to lower costs.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041329", "text": "But again, we are -- our kids' education is a priority for this President, as you know, you heard him say, because, you know, Dr. Biden, as well, is a teacher and educator.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041330", "text": "And right now, we're seeing weapons of war on our streets, which should not be -- which should not be.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041331", "text": "It would lead to more unlawful migration by blocking off lawful pathways to protection.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000041332", "text": "A year ago, no major U.S. airline would guarantee any compensation beyond the price of just the ticket.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000041333", "text": "The President had -- has taken action on this issue of the border since day one -- since day one.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041334", "text": "And quickly to Tehran, the government of Iran has hanged two men for quote, unquote, blasphemy because of their social media posts.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041335", "text": "It's supposed to be about the end of war and bloodshed and suffering.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041336", "text": "Instead, Mr. Putin promised only more violence and spewed only more lies about a war he fo- -- falsely claims has been unleashed against Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041337", "text": "Putin started this unprovoked, unjustified war against the people of Ukraine, and he could end it at any moment.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041338", "text": "Again, could lead to -- trigger a recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041339", "text": "He's fighting to protect healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041340", "text": "He's fighting against a proposal that take away healthcare and increasingly put people in poverty -- American people in poverty.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041341", "text": "So, we are deeply concerned that Russia has extended the pre-trial detention of Evan Gershkovich by an additional three months today.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041342", "text": "We have a plan to fight inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041343", "text": "Both Russia and Ukraine are accusing the other side of doing the shelling.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041344", "text": "And he spoke about -- about the importance of Russia allowing ships to depart Odessa and to adhere to their grain deal.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041345", "text": "This is the biggest investment that we have ever seen in U.S. history when it comes to fighting climate change.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041346", "text": "On day one, we returned the money -- the $8 billion the prior administration took from our military -- we gave that back to the military for military families, for schools, for bases.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041347", "text": "We think it is our -- it is our responsibility to fight this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041348", "text": "This is Russia doing -- causing -- causing this war, which is causing also global challenges around -- around the world.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041349", "text": "They will discuss our unwavering support for Ukraine in the face of Russia's brutal war of aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041350", "text": "Democrats are still pushing for that, screaming that gerrymandering right now in this nation is very unfair -- of their constituents -- and also the issue of the admissions -- affirmative action admissions in colleges.", "issue": "gerrymandering"}
{"id": "0000041351", "text": "They will also discuss Ally support for Ukraine in the face of Russia's brutal war of aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041352", "text": "First on -- ask on Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041353", "text": "Second, they exchanged views on Russia's war in Ukraine and the global impacts it is having.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041354", "text": "For example, Chair -- Chair Powell says, I do not think the U.S. is currently in a recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041355", "text": "So, the -- on the origins of COVID, the two presidents did discuss the health security and transparency as key part of that.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041356", "text": "We're seeing the war in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041357", "text": "And it's not just the President; we have seen NATO come together -- more unified than they've been before because of the leadership of this President.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041358", "text": "But in the meantime, we're going to continue to support Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041359", "text": "The ballot measure proposed by extreme, out-of-step Republican officials would have eviscerated fundamental rights and access to healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041360", "text": "Republican officials have been very clear they are pushing extreme laws banning a woman's right to choose, many of which don't allow exceptions even for rape or incest.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000041361", "text": "And they are calling on a national ban on abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000041362", "text": "Prices are coming down even as Putin's war continues to put pressure on global energy supplies.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041363", "text": "The bottom line for us is that reducing the price of oil in the market is the most important thing.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000041364", "text": "That's a war that started eight years ago -- eight years ago.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041365", "text": "We economists think of this in terms of inflation, inflationary expectations, interest rate changes - a vast array of complicated concepts and measurements.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041366", "text": "And since gasoline prices affect the prices of other goods and services through transportation costs - food is a good example - both households that drive and households that don't yield some benefit from lower gasoline prices.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000041367", "text": "Following up on Jeff's question about transitory inflation, I'm curious what made the White House realize that the phrase was inaccurate and also politically problematic.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041368", "text": "If you think about the geopolitical costs occurring when a Russian plutocrat weaponizes energy and fossil fuels and funds this unjust aggression against Ukraine with it, you get another sense of just how important it is to intervene.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041369", "text": "You think about the war that Russia has taken on in Ukraine - an unmitigated war, a war that is brutal and that has had an effect on the price gases going up almost $2.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041370", "text": "Karine, on Ukraine, President Zelenskyy replaced his head of domestic intelligence and the prosecutor general.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041371", "text": "There is a growing fear that Russia will not restore natural gas deliveries to Europe after its ongoing annual maintenance of Nord Stream 1, which could lead to a serious crisis in Europe, to gas rati- - rationing.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041372", "text": "We're going to continue to work closely with Ukraine on their fight for democracy, on their fight against Russia's aggression, and also their corruption reform.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041373", "text": "CHIPS for America, as the bill is called, represents a historic investment in our domestic manufacturing industry, which has critical implications for our economic and national security.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041374", "text": "This designation could have unintended consequences to Ukraine and the world.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041375", "text": "Our sanctions export controls affect -- efforts to further isolate Russia from the global economy or -- are having a significant impact.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041376", "text": "A follow for you on the questions about Russia and the President's decision not to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041377", "text": "Now, if and when FDA authorizes a vaccine, we'll move from planning to execution.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041378", "text": "Ending the war in Yemen has been a priority of this administration, and we urge all parties to move expeditiously towards a comprehensive and inclusive peace process.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041379", "text": "You know, because the President is fully vaccinated, double boosted, his risk of serious illness is dramatically lower.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000041380", "text": "But the Paxlovid is working really well at preventing serious illness, rebound or no rebound.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000041381", "text": "Number one is prevent serious illness, which I think is essential.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000041382", "text": "So, I think the science on masks is actually quite clear.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000041383", "text": "There has been nothing in the course of his illness thus far which gives me cause to alter the initial expectation.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000041384", "text": "But it's -- generally, there's a broader and important point, which is I -- I find, partly because I've been so involved and so identified with COVID -- right? -- over the last two years.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041385", "text": "But especially his oxygen levels -- as someone who had COVID twice, I know how important it is.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041386", "text": "Our existing vaccines continue to provide robust protection against serious illness, hospitalizations, and deaths.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000041387", "text": "You know, with any outbreak, that evaluation almost sort of begins day one.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000041388", "text": "And according to an industry analyst, the most common price at gas stations across the country is now $3.99 per gallon, with around 40, 000 gas stations across more than 36 states now offering gas at $3.99 per gallon or less.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000041389", "text": "In 2007, the San Francisco Federal Reserve said, you know, Journalists often describe a recession as two consecutive quarters of declines in quarterly real gross domestic product.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041390", "text": "We've already made difficult decisions on -- on COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041391", "text": "So, look, the Russian Federation knows its horrific war against Ukraine has caused the majority of the international community to see it as a pariah state.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041392", "text": "Because it takes a couple of weeks for your immune system to, you know, kind of, generate the benefit from that vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041393", "text": "So I think the science on that is clear.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000041394", "text": "We are doing a lot of work to fight COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041395", "text": "You can't fight a deadly virus without resources.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041396", "text": "This war can end today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041397", "text": "So he could stop, again, this war today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041398", "text": "This is a war that he started, and he could stop it if he wishes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041399", "text": "Karine, the President -- -- excuse me -- has made clear that the U.S. will support Ukraine for as long as it takes.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041400", "text": "Again, this is his war that he has started.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041401", "text": "But we will be there for Ukraine to support their brave -- their bravery as they are fighting against this aggression as long as it takes.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041402", "text": "As we have said many times along -- before, this war has gone on for too long.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041403", "text": "The President has condemned racism many times since taking office.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000041404", "text": "And the economic legislation signed, again, by this President -- when we think about the Inflation Reduction Act, when we think about CHIPS -- CHIPS Act -- are encouraging investment right here in the United States.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041405", "text": "Russia -- the war in -- in Ukraine, started by Russia, has increased food , increased gas prices.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000041406", "text": "And the pandemic has also caused these global challenges.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000041407", "text": "The Secretary-General at the U.N. has called for a rapid reaction force that would be created in conjunction bilaterally between Haiti and a third party before a multilateral force could be put together.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000041408", "text": "The updated vaccines are designed against the COVID we are fighting today.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041409", "text": "And the single most important tool is the updated COVID-19 vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041410", "text": "And therefore, our vaccines -- this new vaccine should provide the best protection possible against sickness and against serious illness this winter.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041411", "text": "We had hoped that over time -- as the pandemic went along, as this virus -- as our fight against this virus went along, that we would be expanding our medicine cabinet.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000041412", "text": "Four billion dollars is a small investment to make to better protect Americans and better protect the world.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041413", "text": "Yeah, what the President said several weeks ago also was -- he said COVID is not over and we still continue to fight COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041414", "text": "And we are focused on fighting COVID every day.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041415", "text": "COVID continues to be a substantial problem, and we're out there fighting it.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041416", "text": "In terms of the military, that's a decision that the military leaders should make space on what it -- you know, what the military leadership decides is important for its -- for a ready force.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041417", "text": "But again, this is -- this is a priority, and we need Russia -- we are asking and telling Russia to negotiate in good faith.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041418", "text": "It would be a major mistake for Russia to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, leading to severe consequences.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041419", "text": "We are calling that false -- false allegations by Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041420", "text": "It's about supporting NATO and all of Europe.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041421", "text": "And again, this war can end today if President Putin were to decide to do so.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041422", "text": "And again, we are going to continue to support Ukraine until this war ends.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041423", "text": "And we are asking Russia, we are telling Russia to -- to negotiate in good faith.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041424", "text": "And we had the former administration who mishandled the COVID -- the CO- -- the reaction to COVID, how we would move forward out of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041425", "text": "Obviously, inflation is a major concern, and that's what the Fed is looking at here.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041426", "text": "Look, we -- what you have seen this past several months -- more than six months -- even before we saw the war in Ukraine, the unprovoked war by Russia, is a unified West.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041427", "text": "And so, historically, in the United States, when we're in a recession -- I think this is a sort of typical, commonsense understanding of recession, but it also happens to be the case -- the economy is losing jobs.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041428", "text": "As Secretary Yellen said on Sunday, two negative quarters of GDP growth is not the technical definition of recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041429", "text": "So it's our view that inflation is the top economic priority that we need to be focused on as a country.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041430", "text": "Well, one of the costs -- one of the big cost drivers that families are facing is the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041431", "text": "And we quickly ordered the production of 5 million more vaccine when we saw that the virus was starting to spread.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041432", "text": "As a result of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, more than 26 million women in the United States currently live in a state that has banned abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000041433", "text": "One official is saying that Russia is preparing for, quote, maximum escalation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041434", "text": "It's still -- we're still fighting COVID, as I just laid out.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041435", "text": "And, look, we are seeing protests in the streets of Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041436", "text": "And what we're seeing in Russia are the people in Russia who are saying they do not want this war; they do not support Putin's war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041437", "text": "Saudi pilots flew with ours in the war against ISIS, its navy patrols with -- with ours in the Red Sea and the Gulf, and the U.S. military personnel are based in Saudi Arabia.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041438", "text": "You know, it is important to protect our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041439", "text": "So, last week, the Federal Reserve Chairman said that COVID is, quote, no longer playing an important role in our economy.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041440", "text": "And so, it's up to China to figure out what kind of relationship that they want.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041441", "text": "And China knows that it will -- that we will vigorously defend our homeland and sovereignty.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041442", "text": "We're still fighting COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041443", "text": "President Biden has rallied the free world in defense of Ukraine and in opposition to Russian aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041444", "text": "President Biden will engage with technology and manufacturing leaders in Korea who are mobilizing billions of dollars in investment here in the United States to create thousands of good-paying American jobs.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041445", "text": "So we have publicly called upon Russia to end its attacks on Odessa and to end the blockade and to permit the traffic -- the commercial and humanitarian traffic of ships into and out of Odessa Port.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041446", "text": "You know, our country is facing an epidemic that is very real, as we have seen this past weekend, as gun violence is costing lives every single day.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000041447", "text": "Well, because -- what I'm saying is, since the war -- since Putin's war -- aggression against Ukraine started back in February -- we did see a spike.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041448", "text": "There's a possibility this war could go on for months or years.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041449", "text": "This is a war that Putin started.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041450", "text": "This is a war -- his aggression, his violent -- very violent war that we have seen.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041451", "text": "The Ukraine -- Ukrainians and their government have fought very bravely.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041452", "text": "He is calling for a $5 billion investment over 10 years.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041453", "text": "And we're talking about housing, mental health, community support, all of the things -- apprenticeship -- all of the things that are so important in order to deal with this issue.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000041454", "text": "We inherited a war in Yemen that was causing widespread death and suffering.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041455", "text": "And under President Biden's leadership, we helped end a war in Gaza, which easily could have lasted months, in just 11 days.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041456", "text": "One of those is the horrific war in Yemen, where I've stood before you before and been asked questions -- very tough, but fair questions -- about what the United States was doing to bring peace to Yemen and what a high priority that was.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041457", "text": "The major cities of Ukraine across much of the country are in Ukrainian hands and are being ably and bravely defended by the Ukrainian military with the support of the United States and other NATO Allies as well as countries around the world.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041458", "text": "And the Ukrainians have made Russia pay a dear price for that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041459", "text": "And the sanctions have made Russia pay a dear price for that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041460", "text": "And we will continue to work with the Ukrainian military and Ukrainian government on a strategy that ultimately achieves their objectives, both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041461", "text": "So, today, Brazil's President Bolsonaro said that a deal with Russia is close to buy much cheaper oil from Moscow, and other countries from -- the Greeks are doing the same.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041462", "text": "You also noted that the major cities in Ukraine stand.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041463", "text": "Gas and food prices continue to be heavily impacted by the war in Ukraine.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041464", "text": "The President's number one economic priority is tackling inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041465", "text": "And what we -- and how -- in particular with food and gas, and how his unprecedented brutal war on Ukraine has cost -- has caused prices to go up.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041466", "text": "The main thrust of his presentation when it comes to Ukraine will really be about the United Nations Charter, about the foundational principle at the heart of that charter that countries cannot conquer their neighbors by force, cannot cease and acquire territory by force.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041467", "text": "And the way this war should end is for Russia to abide by the basic terms of the U.N. Charter and to return the territories that it has seized by force.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041468", "text": "And he will talk in his speech at the U.N. about the need for the world to learn the fundamental lessons of COVID-19 so that we never again face a circumstance like we did over the course of the past two years.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000041469", "text": "They'll, of course, talk about the war in Ukraine, where Prime Minister Truss has indicated her robust and unwavering support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041470", "text": "President Biden believes that our democracy must serve all people equally and that Republicans should join Democrats this week in passing this bill.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041471", "text": "Staying on the border and the record number of arrests that we are seeing, the President campaigned on addressing the root causes of migration.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000041472", "text": "Second, we will continue to provide military equipment so that Ukraine can defend its territory and its freedom.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041473", "text": "Ukraine has every right to continue to defend its sovereignty, which the people of Ukraine are doing bravely and courageously every day with the support of the international community.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041474", "text": "Ukraine is seeking accelerated membership in NATO.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041475", "text": "Well, first, Russia has done what it frequently does when it is responsible for something, which is make accusations that it was really someone else who did it.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041476", "text": "I would think that when this war began, there was a certain category of planning that has gone on.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041477", "text": "MR President Zelenskyy has consistently said throughout this conflict that the war ultimately will end through diplomacy, and we have consistently backed him up in that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041478", "text": "Today, the United States will be announcing another package of security assistance for Ukraine, including important air defense contributions like missiles for HAWK air defense systems, as well as four U.S. Avenger air defense systems that come equipped with Stinger missiles.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041479", "text": "And one of the reasons why we believe that Russia should end this war and leave Ukraine is for the good of those families and communities inside Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041480", "text": "North Korea has criticized the recent cybersecurity conference held by the United States when the President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol had this meeting.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041481", "text": "As you know, inflation has been a number-one top priority when it comes to the economy -- those lowering costs for the American people.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041482", "text": "So, the President has been very clear that he still sees that -- he believes our democracy is still under -- under threat and that the American people have to defend it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041483", "text": "Inflation not as high as was expected, but we are hearing about these layoffs at these major companies, Meta and Twitter.", "issue": "Inflation"}
{"id": "0000041484", "text": "First of all, as you know, a lot of African countries have held the line against condemning Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041485", "text": "We believe that the war in Ukraine is a matter of principle, and it's not an American principle.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041486", "text": "Another protester was executed in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041487", "text": "His accusation was he was waging a war against God.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041488", "text": "On the -- on the question of what we are doing with respect to supporting the protesters in Iran, we have had a drumbeat of announcements relative to sanctions against those who are perpetrating these gross human rights abuses and this repression.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041489", "text": "Well, we have spoken about the protests in China and called for peaceful protests.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041490", "text": "But from my perspective, the issues related to ensuring an orderly, humane migration process at the border are being persistently and constantly addressed through the interagency process.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041491", "text": "As you all know, on Saturday, on the President's orders, the United States military conducted a successful operation to extract all U.S. government personnel from Khartoum.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041492", "text": "During the Biden administration alone, just in the last two-plus years, the Republic of Korea has invested over $100 billion in the United States.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041493", "text": "This visit, of course, also comes at a critical moment as North Korea continues to develop its nuclear and missile capabilities.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041494", "text": "That is the last year, since the war broke out.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041495", "text": "Afghanistan was a unique case involving the end of a 20-year war that the United States was centrally involved in.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041496", "text": "Obviously, Ukraine is going to be an important topic of conversation.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041497", "text": "On Ukraine, we have now announced some 300 sanctions against individuals, entities, vessels, and aircraft.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041498", "text": "We're imposing new bans to prevent Russia from benefiting from our services.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041499", "text": "As the fight has evolved, the capabilities that we have provided Ukraine have evolved.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041500", "text": "So, all of the capabilities that the United States has proven to Ukraine come with the basic proposition that the United States is not enabling or supporting attacks on Russian territory.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041501", "text": "So, Ukraine will be a topic, but one of several key topics that he will have with these countries.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041502", "text": "Jake, you've talked about, on China, the idea of developing tools to fight economic coercion.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041503", "text": "That's what makes our democracy -- the core of our democracy is having these types of give and take.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041504", "text": "But nothing has changed about President Biden's view here -- is that nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine and that Ukraine is a sovereign country.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041505", "text": "And if you feel passionate about supporting Ukraine, there's any number of other ways to do that that are safer and just as effective.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041506", "text": "Again, that's connected to Putin's war against Ukraine and them attacking another country's sovereignty.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041507", "text": "And so, going into that transition with stability and steady -- steady growth, we feel that's going to help with inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041508", "text": "Because of our actions, Russia is struggling to make bond payments, edging closer to default.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041509", "text": "Instead of a shaken West, for instance, we are more resolved than ever to support Ukraine and are leading that effort head on at both the G7 and the NATO Summit.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041510", "text": "Instead of distracting us from the Indo-Pacific and China, the President's leadership with respect to supporting Ukraine has actually galvanized leaders in that region and effectively linked our efforts in Europe and in Asia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041511", "text": "Back in 2010, you might recall, the NATO -- NATO was very deeply involved in the war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041512", "text": "And not only has the landscape changed, particularly from Mr. Putin's war in Ukraine, but military capabilities and organizational concepts and operational concepts have changed as well.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041513", "text": "As I said, adding additional costs and consequences to Mr. Putin, further isolating Russia -- all these nations have a pi- -- a piece of that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041514", "text": "Russia has been threatening Israel for helping Ukraine and also for Israel's bombing of the Damascus, Syria, airport.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041515", "text": "China opposes South Korea's participation in the NATO Summit.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041516", "text": "How much the administration is weighing its aid to Ukraine with the economic hardships that Americans are seeing here at home.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041517", "text": "I mean, war is, by nature, unpredictable.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041518", "text": "Due to a decreased demand at the start of the pandemic, U.S. oil companies reduced production and refining capacity, which is what I was just saying, Peter.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000041519", "text": "There's issues where we can cooperate with China on, and then there's issues where, obviously, there's friction and tension.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041520", "text": "And the onus is now on Iran to decide whether they're going to take that deal or not.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041521", "text": "And while the housing shortage in the U.S. long prec- -- preceded the pandemic, increasing the supply of affordable housing remains critical to lowering housing costs for families over time.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000041522", "text": "I don't think the U.S. is currently in a recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041523", "text": "No, we're not redefining recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041524", "text": "And I will say that the textbook definition of recession is not -- is not two negative quarters of GDP.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041525", "text": "Instead, the committee broadly defines a recession as a 'significant decline in economic activity spreading across the economy lasting more than a few months.'", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041526", "text": "You're setting the expectation that we're not headed to a recession, we're not in a recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041527", "text": "I think, in the -- in the aggregate, we all would like to see this war end today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041528", "text": "Out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Biden ordered the military to down the object.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041529", "text": "And then, on Ukraine, President Zelenskyy was in the UK earlier this week, and he received a promise from the UK government that the UK would train Ukrainian pilots on NATO-standard jet fighters.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041530", "text": "And if a -- if a NATO nation or even a non-NATO nation wants to provide capabilities like fighter aircraft to Ukraine, that's certainly their decision to make.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041531", "text": "And outside of Ukraine, we're helping train them on combined arms maneuver.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041532", "text": "Once again, Mr. Putin is willing to weaponize energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041533", "text": "And China said that they will take leader action.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041534", "text": "But I was up here not long ago talking about the burgeoning defense relationship between Iran and Russia, which is not only not good for the people of Ukraine, it's not good for the people in the Middle East.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041535", "text": "And again, that's not only not good for the people of Ukraine, it's not good for the Korean Peninsula and the region there that Russia and North Korea could be, again, developing a deeper defense relationship.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041536", "text": "We think this war could end today; it should end today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041537", "text": "These three were right on the border of it, so there was a legitimate concern there.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041538", "text": "And those needs have evolved as the war has evolved, and we'll see where this goes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041539", "text": "What could end the war is real simple.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041540", "text": "Like I said, the war he could end today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041541", "text": "But this announcement yesterday in Kyiv of $400 million in support, largely to help Ukraine recover from the energy attacks on their infrastructure, is an important one.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041542", "text": "That they are giving -- that they actually went to Kyiv and, through their foreign ministry, directly pledged $400 million in energy infrastructure and in financial assistance is not insignificant.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041543", "text": "John, on the Department of Energy's findings, the lab leak most likely caused the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000041544", "text": "The President made trying to find the origins of COVID a priority right when he came into office.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041545", "text": "There is not a consensus on what caused COVID to start.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041546", "text": "But I think, without question, I'm comfortable telling you that the war in Ukraine will be a prime topic of discussion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041547", "text": "And on Friday, the President was asked if he was worried that China will side with Russia in the war.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041548", "text": "The -- we have not seen China go all in with respect to supporting Russia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041549", "text": "MR They have not gone all in in supporting Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041550", "text": "He was asked if China will side with Russia or not.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041551", "text": "We have Putin's war that increased gas prices, that helped increase inflation.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041552", "text": "We've closely coordinated our support to Ukraine throughout this conflict, including through joint announcements in January to provide infantry fighting vehicles and tanks.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041553", "text": "Germany has provided significant air defense support to Ukraine, including a Patriot battery; the IRIS-T air defense system, which is an infrared seeking system; and five multiple -- multiple launch rocket systems.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041554", "text": "One, we want -- we don't want Russia to suspend their participation in New START, because that treaty makes both our country safer.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041555", "text": "And three, we're going to continue to support Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041556", "text": "And he invited Lula to come and visit Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041557", "text": "China and Belarus conducted high-level talks yesterday and expanded their defense partnership.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041558", "text": "Ukraine requested arms aid from South Korea.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041559", "text": "On Ukraine, I would note that the two sides just said, quote, The purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter must be observed, and international law must be respected.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041560", "text": "Following the U.N. Charter would mean that Russia should withdraw from all the territory inside Ukraine, the territory of another member state of the U.N. -- a member that it has invaded.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041561", "text": "One way to stop the hostilities is to pull Russian troops out of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041562", "text": "So, now, if China wants to play a constructive role here in this conflict, then they ought to press Russia to pull its troops out of Ukraine and Ukrainian sovereign territory.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041563", "text": "But I don't think you can reasonably look at China as impartial in any way.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041564", "text": "Ukraine posed no threat to anybody, let alone Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041565", "text": "But we know that this -- we know this war has had an effect on his inventory.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041566", "text": "The -- the war in Ukraine has been going on for over a year now.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041567", "text": "In that joint statement today, Russia and China warned against the war transitioning to a, quote, uncontrollable phase.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041568", "text": "There'll be certainly issues of trade to discuss.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000041569", "text": "And he said that Russia will meet this commitment to provide them with food supply and energy, et cetera.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041570", "text": "I mean, it is Mr. Putin's war that has contributed to the food insecurity on the continent.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041571", "text": "It's his war that has contributed to the energy insecurity on the continent.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041572", "text": "But make no mistake, his war in Ukraine is having these kinds of effects on the African continent.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041573", "text": "So, you may know that Daniel Ortega recently threw into prison Bishop Rolando Alvarez -- well-known, well-respected bishop throughout the world.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000041574", "text": "And if that's really the concern -- if the Russians are very concerned about their tanks staying fully operational, they can just take them across the border back into Russia and take them out of Ukraine; they don't belong there in the first place", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041575", "text": "In that statement, China promised to work with Russia on the financial market and payment and supply chain -- all the areas we see Russia is being sanctioned.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041576", "text": "They have helped our efforts to support Ukraine and, of course, we're -- we're grateful for that.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041577", "text": "Without question, they'll be talking about issues of migration, which affects us both.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000041578", "text": "So, we certainly support efforts to root out corruption, certainly including there in Venezuela.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000041579", "text": "John, prior to Xi's three-day visit to Russia, China described this visit as a peace mission.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041580", "text": "And if China really wants to -- to be helpful in that regard, they should be urging President Putin to get out of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041581", "text": "To lower inflation, we should trust the Fed.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041582", "text": "Israel is a democracy and a sovereign state, of course, and -- and sovereign states make sovereign decisions.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041583", "text": "And Israel is a democracy, and it's one of the great things that we share -- our two countries share are some basic fundamental democratic institutions and principles.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041584", "text": "It is important to remember -- I would add just one last point -- it is a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041585", "text": "China has made clear that context matters.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041586", "text": "Across Tennessee and across America, our kids are paying the price for the actions of Republican lawmakers who continue to refuse to take action on stronger gun laws.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000041587", "text": "With the enactment of a new law in Indiana, 14 states have now banned gender-affirming healthcare, while some of these laws are currently blocked by courts.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041588", "text": "First and most critically, the President's decision to end the war in Afghanistan was the right one.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041589", "text": "And now, with that war over, we can more squarely address the most pressing challenges of our day.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041590", "text": "But while it was always the President's intent to end that war, it is also undeniable that decisions made and the lack of planning done by the previous administration significantly limited options available to him.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041591", "text": "And America's longest war deserves a lengthy review and lengthy study, and the President is committed to that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041592", "text": "And as I said, we learned from Afghanistan and we applied that lesson in Ukraine and Ethiopia -- that being aggressive in the information space and being willing to move a little sooner may be the best thing.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041593", "text": "I don't think we fully appreciated the degree of corruption that was in the officer ranks in the military.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000041594", "text": "As I said at the very end of my opening statement, ending a war -- any war -- is not an easy endeavor, certainly not after 20 years.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041595", "text": "And just by dint of being the Commander-in-Chief, he assumes responsibility for the orders he gives, the men and women who execute those operations -- in this case, it's not just the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041596", "text": "Since the withdrawal, China has increased its economic ties with the Taliban -- first, signing oil deal in January and now eyeing mineral contracts.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041597", "text": "We don't -- we don't recognize them as an official government in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041598", "text": "And as I said, even in Afghanistan, because ending that war was the right thing to do for this country and our national security interests.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041599", "text": "So, you can run down the list of how China is helping Russia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041600", "text": "You know, China's made a deal now with Saudi Arabia for oil transactions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041601", "text": "And Afghanistan was one of the chief foreign policy concerns the President had coming in.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041602", "text": "We would urge China not to overreact.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041603", "text": "President Zelenskyy and some Eastern member states -- Eastern member states are -- would like to see Ukraine presented with a path to citizenship to NATO membership.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041604", "text": "And, you know, for decades, we support an open-door policy for NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041605", "text": "We support an open-door policy for NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041606", "text": "And the Irish government has been strong supporters of Ukraine, providing vital non-lethal assistance, including medical supplies, body armor, and support for Ukraine's electric grid, as well as their agriculture.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041607", "text": "We continue to support Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041608", "text": "We're going to continue to support Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041609", "text": "We urge Russia to accept that proposal.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041610", "text": "Well, I think just -- when Russia was getting aggressive around Ukraine, the President was out every couple of days telling Putin, Don't do it.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041611", "text": "But we've also, I would add -- thanks to COVID, we've done a lot of work, particularly in the last 18 months, to make more resilient our supply chains across a range of sectors.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041612", "text": "And again, we urge Iran to take this deal on the table.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041613", "text": "The U.S. Senate, as well as President Zelenskyy, call on the administration to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041614", "text": "I mean, we have levied unprecedented sanctions against Russia just unilaterally from the United States, let alone the rest of the world.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041615", "text": "So, first, within two days of the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the U.S., we began deploying vaccine to states and jurisdictions and prepositioning tens of thousands of additional doses in the Strategic National Stockpile.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041616", "text": "And you've been calling for Lebanon to fight corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000041617", "text": "Look, of course, all around the world we speak out against corruption and try to hold leaders accountable as best we can.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000041618", "text": "Just wondering how the White House feels about -- Peace deal for -- In Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041619", "text": "The bill, as you all know, threatens the healthcare for 21 million Americans -- 21 million Americans.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041620", "text": "Ukraine has denied that they're responsible for that.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041621", "text": "Tara Reade, who was an aide to then-Senator Biden back in the '90s, and then in two- -- 2020 accused him of sexual assault, she announced yesterday she's seeking citizenship in Russia and she feels safer there.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041622", "text": "One is obviously to support Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041623", "text": "Nobody -- nobody, except maybe Mr. Putin, wants to see this war continue.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041624", "text": "And this is something that -- clearly, as COVID has waned, we've taken this very seriously and have taken in the comments and the requests that's come from this room.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041625", "text": "Just a follow-up question on China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041626", "text": "The Chinese, in retribution for that, shut down some lines of communication, and one of them was the mil-to-mil line.", "issue": "retribution"}
{"id": "0000041627", "text": "I have absolutely zero doubt that the war in Ukraine will be a prime issue of discussion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041628", "text": "And in war, those things are unpredictable, and it's -- a lot of it's going to depend on how and where they conduct these operations and what kind of resistance they face from Russian forces.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041629", "text": "On Ukraine, I wonder if you could explain a little more why it is that the United States urges Ukraine against the conduct of cross-border operations.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041630", "text": "So we don't want to see this war escalate beyond the degree that it's escalated before.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041631", "text": "Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine has had a devastating impact on the Ukrainian people and brought terrible suffering to them.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041632", "text": "We will continue to support Ukraine in any way we can, including through military, humanitarian, and economic support.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041633", "text": "We don't support attacks inside Russia, and we don't encourage or enable Ukraine to be able to do that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041634", "text": "The purpose of providing advanced fighter aircraft is to help Ukraine defend itself, defend its -- its airspace and its territorial integrity.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041635", "text": "We have made our concerns about strikes inside Russia very clear to Ukrainian officials.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041636", "text": "We don't want to see the war escalate, and -- and there's no apologies for that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041637", "text": "The President said on August 20th that the military doesn't think it's a good idea for her to go.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041638", "text": "Putin's war is still putting pressure on global oil supply, but President Biden is taking historic action to mitigate its impacts on American families.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041639", "text": "Republican governors and state legislators are imposing extreme laws banning a woman's right to choose -- many don't allow exceptions even for rape or incest.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000041640", "text": "And congressional Republicans are calling for a national ban on abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000041641", "text": "I mean, what we've seen over the course of -- of now almost six months of war is that a lot of Ukrainians who left in the early weeks are going back for various reasons.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041642", "text": "I mean, our commitment to supporting Ukraine has not changed.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041643", "text": "And then the President, obviously, is still isolating with COVID in the Residence; he was while the strike took place and also when the strike -- when he authorized the strike last week.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041644", "text": "But under Idaho's near-total ban on abortion, women seeking emergency care for medal- -- medical conditions like ectopic pregnancies or hemorrhages can be denied medically necessary -- necessary healthcare by doctors.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000041645", "text": "West Virginia signed into law a state ban on abortion with virtually no exceptions.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000041646", "text": "The state sponsor of terrorism designation could actually make it harder for humanitarian aid to get into Ukraine.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000041647", "text": "I do expect that the war in Ukraine will come up as a part of the discussion today.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041648", "text": "As with all individuals encountered at the border, DHS continues to expel migrants as required by court order under CDC's Title 42 authority.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041649", "text": "The evidence that Iran is helping Russia wage its war against Ukraine is clear and it is public.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041650", "text": "It's on holding Iran accountable, as Karine mentioned in the opening statement, for the way they're treating innocent protesters in their country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041651", "text": "We are making sure that Ukraine can defend itself against a range of threats that the Russians are posing inside Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041652", "text": "And lastly, you've made clear that Russia using a tactical nuclear weapon would be crossing a very significant line.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041653", "text": "So the war changes, the capabilities change with it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041654", "text": "It's a democracy; they get to decide that.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041655", "text": "First of all, regarding the, God forbid, deployment of a dirty bomb against Ukraine, I'm sure the administration would hold Russia accountable, except Russia is not going to own up to it.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041656", "text": "They've been fighting this proxy war since 2014.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041657", "text": "We're talking about an unprovoked war that was started by President Putin.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041658", "text": "And just to continue what the President had said, he said it's about supporting NATO and all of Europe.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041659", "text": "So we are committed to supporting Ukraine during this time, and we are impressed by their bravery.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041660", "text": "And we have not received any requests or any interest by China to receive our vaccines.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041661", "text": "But, obviously, there are people in China that -- that have -- have concerns about that.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041662", "text": "But what is also having a very acute, significant global impact on the economy is the war in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041663", "text": "But clearly, China as a major economic player and China still struggling with COVID, there's -- obviously there's an impact on the economy.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041664", "text": "The head of NATO is warning that, essentially, Vladimir Putin is using winter as a weapon of war against Ukraine.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041665", "text": "And that's due to longstanding shortfall of affordable housing, plus increased demand for homes during the pandemic and a reduced number of homes due to previous supply chain challenges.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000041666", "text": "As the President said yesterday, the war is at a critical point, and we must do everything that we can to help the Ukrainians resist Russian aggression.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041667", "text": "So it's very much tied to the war that we're seeing on the ground right now and what we anticipate we'll see throughout the winter months.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041668", "text": "President Zelenskyy recently fired senior leaders in Ukraine over corruption concerns.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041669", "text": "And as the President said, they don't represent an offensive threat to Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041670", "text": "It's a risk when we fight a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041671", "text": "Many of those who called for sending Leopards and Abrams to Ukraine argued that Russia right now is too weakened to -- militarily too weakened to respond conventionally in a significant way.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041672", "text": "How confident are you in this assessment that Russia is so weak that -- or maybe you have a different assessment.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041673", "text": "But many people thought that Russia -- think that Russia is too weak to respond in a significant way to the move that was just announced about tanks.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041674", "text": "We urge China to be fully transparent about what's going on.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041675", "text": "Number two, it's appalling that a public official in Russia would even suggest the death penalty for two American citizens that -- that were in Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041676", "text": "It's connected, what's happening in Ukraine -- this is a perfect example of how it's connected to -- to national security -- our national security interests and those of allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific as well.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041677", "text": "Already, Russia is installing illegitimate proxy officials in areas of Ukraine that are under its control.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041678", "text": "First, these proxy officials will arrange sham referenda on joining Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041679", "text": "It'll be the 16th such drawdown to support Ukraine since the President took office.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041680", "text": "Russia will face additional sanctions and become even more of a global pariah than it is now.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041681", "text": "When they invaded Ukraine, only 4 of the 192 other members of the U.N. took Moscow's side.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000041682", "text": "Any sham efforts to legitimize an illegal land grab will only make things worse for Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041683", "text": "Ukraine absolutely has to be part of whatever solution is solved, and their economy can't suffer any more than it already has as a result of Russian blockade activity.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041684", "text": "Waging war is an expensive business.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041685", "text": "He now - his - he's facing inflation of up to - thanks to all the international pressure, he's already facing inflation of up to 20 percent.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041686", "text": "And you can end up - the fighting in Syria started, really, as a result of a drought.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000041687", "text": "And the onus is on Iran now to decide whether they're going to take that deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041688", "text": "What we're focused on is making sure Ukraine can continue to defend itself.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041689", "text": "Iran just has to agree to accept that deal, come back into compliance.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041690", "text": "Many of them who would like to invite me to the border have actually voted against that.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041691", "text": "They will discuss our steadfast support of Ukraine, and the Netherlands has been a very key supporter of security assistance in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041692", "text": "The Republic of Korea has made clear that they are not seeking nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041693", "text": "Because the President says that the war is in a critical point.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041694", "text": "Now, as his military continues to struggle in Ukraine, President Putin is increasingly turning to Wagner, which is owned by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, for military support.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041695", "text": "In part because of our sanctions and export controls, Russia is searching for arms from foreign countries, including through Wagner.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041696", "text": "In recent weeks, we have seen North Korea -- sorry -- we have seen North Korean officials falsely deny that they have provided arms to Wagner.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041697", "text": "Crimea is Ukraine, and decisions about parts of Ukraine that Ukrai- -- Ukrainian armed forces are going to fight over or fight in or strike, that's up to President Zelenskyy and his military leaders.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041698", "text": "Look, because the President believes that it is -- it is critical, the -- it is a critical pillar of democracy to do that in a peaceful way, to march.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041699", "text": "Censoring our classes is not how public education is supposed to work in a free country.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041700", "text": "Certainly, they talked about ongoing support for Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041701", "text": "I mean, there's already shortages of food; there's concern over shortages of medicine and water.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000041702", "text": "And, of course, they've been very vocal in supporting Ukraine, and they've been very vocal in speaking out against Russia's aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041703", "text": "What the President has been able to do in this first two years of this administration is deal with a pandemic, a once-in-a-generation pandemic, by putting forth a comprehensive plan.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000041704", "text": "So, Russia started this unprovoked aggression, this unprovoked war against Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041705", "text": "But look, we do not support attacks inside of Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041706", "text": "We do not support attacks inside of Russia, period.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041707", "text": "On Iran and Afghanistan, there have been some border clashes over the weekend over, I think, water rights.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041708", "text": "The President has said of the war in Ukraine and the subsequent price hikes that have resulted that, quote, We will be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when all this is over.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041709", "text": "Secretary Granholm, you and the President have framed this war in Ukraine as the primary driver of the spikes in energy costs that's the largest contributor to overall inflation.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041710", "text": "We will have a demand problem when China opens up after COVID.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041711", "text": "His -- his full quote was, No, inflation was high before, certainly before the war in Ukraine broke out.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041712", "text": "Well, I think most would say that the price of fuel has exacerbated inflation.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000041713", "text": "If the oil and gas industry is willing to reduce prices to the extent that historically they have when the price per barrel has come down.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000041714", "text": "This morning, you all saw, we continued progress on our efforts to bring inflation down.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041715", "text": "Starting at midnight, people who arrive at our southern border will be subject to our immigration enforcement authorities under Title 8 of the United States Code.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041716", "text": "His number one economic issue is bringing down inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041717", "text": "But I expect they will discuss China, Russia, Russia's war against Ukraine, and the DPRK's unlawful nuclear and missile programs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041718", "text": "South Korea is a major producer of weapons and has large stockpiles of ammunition.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041719", "text": "We support an open-door policy for NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041720", "text": "And there's a concern over Korea's coming -- the President of Korea is coming tomorrow.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041721", "text": "America is falling behind on this really important technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000041722", "text": "The federal government purchased 171 million doses of this updated vaccine, and so far, you've got 35 million into arms.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041723", "text": "Weapons of war do not belong on our streets, in our churches, in our movie theaters, in our malls, in our groceries, in our schools, or in our nightclubs.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041724", "text": "So, the crackdown on protests in Iran continues.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041725", "text": "And numerous experts affirm that restarting paused loan payments at around the same time as we provide targeted debt relief will not have any meaningful effect on inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041726", "text": "On inflation, I think it's good to take a step back and realize where we are today.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041727", "text": "A nuclear-armed Iran would serve as an even greater threat to U.S forces, friends, and allies in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041728", "text": "You see a very unified NATO that -- and they are unified because of the leadership of this President.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041729", "text": "There's a concern about crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000041730", "text": "Brian, one thing that may -- one tradeoff to cutting or fighting inflation may be a change in the unemployment levels.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000041731", "text": "As a result of this outbreak, there has been the expression of real concern in the gay community, the LGBTQ-plus community about stigmatization, specifically related to gay men.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000041732", "text": "So the first step in addressing a lot of the equity issues and gaps that we see in vaccination is really about making vaccine available.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000041733", "text": "The folks who were early adopters for this vaccine have gotten it, and now we're really on to the next level, which is making sure that everyone who needs it gets it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041734", "text": "At the U.N. today, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield will demand that Russia halt its filtration operations immediately and allow the U.N. independent observers and humanitarian and human rights organizations access to these filtration sites and to those who have been sent to Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041735", "text": "That is an investment that we don't see at all very often to -- for -- from a federal government, from a White House to be zeroed in on those issues of environmental injustices.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041736", "text": "She opposes abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000041737", "text": "And it's also -- it's going to lead as -- as it was very -- made very clear in the Dobbs decision -- we're talking about contraception.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000041738", "text": "Russia is continuing to wage a brutal war against the Ukrainian people.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041739", "text": "Although I will say, you know, from the very beginning, the Russians have been trying to paint this war as some sort of fight with the West against Russia, NATO against Russia, the United States against Russia.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041740", "text": "They decided war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041741", "text": "They're continuing to fight that war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041742", "text": "Ukraine wasn't threatening anybody.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041743", "text": "They were certainly not threatening Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041744", "text": "Ukraine is fighting for its life.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041745", "text": "They will discuss our unwavering support for Ukraine and our efforts to impose costs on the Kremlin as Russia continues its brutal war of aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041746", "text": "The dual human tragedies of COVID-19 and Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine continue to reverberate through every facet of our country.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041747", "text": "Our national defense, while we are supporting Ukraine, while we're supposed to be countering China.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041748", "text": "Look, the net income tax was always supposed to go to Medicare.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000041749", "text": "Look, we welcome any efforts to help end the war in Yemen and de-escalate tensions in the Middle East region.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041750", "text": "Now, you also probably know that China has already issued a 12-point plan for the conflict in Ukraine, which includes an essent- -- an essential point, and that's respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041751", "text": "The entire world would like to see this war end -- especially the Ukrainians themselves, who have put forward their own plan for a just peace, which draws, again, on these same U.N. principles.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041752", "text": "And let's remember, this war could actually end right now if Russia would withdraw its troops from the country.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041753", "text": "But we are concerned that, instead, China will reiterate calls for a ceasefire that leaves Russian forces inside Ukraine sovereign territory.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041754", "text": "This would -- the world should not be fooled by any tactical move by Russia, aided by China or any other country, to freeze the war on its terms without any viable pathway to restore Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041755", "text": "Some 4, 399 troops did not make it home from the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041756", "text": "China has, as you know, not condemned the war, but they haven't provided lethal weapons.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041757", "text": "We face some common challenges in the region, not -- not the least of which is Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041758", "text": "Their military has been roundly embarrassed inside Ukraine, and they continue to lose ground there.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000041759", "text": "The Trump playbook and the whole-of-America response to this pandemic has far exceeded what this administration inherited.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000041760", "text": "It protects our military, federal employees from risky investments and avoids funding Chinese defense contractors.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041761", "text": "So it's important to note that this drug has been safely used by millions of people for a long time.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000041762", "text": "You sent in members of the military to deal with this.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041763", "text": "Look, that's an important part of combating racism is making sure that there's equal opportunity for black Americans in this country.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000041764", "text": "Kayleigh, these are protesters protesting against injustice, against racism and police brutality.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000041765", "text": "Kayleigh, Justice Gorsuch's decision from the Supreme Court this week against anti-LGBT discrimination was focused on employment civil rights law, but also had implications on housing, healthcare.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000041766", "text": "So in this case, if there was a strategic decision to be made vis-a-vis Russia, those are the kind of things that are briefed to the President when they're deemed credible.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041767", "text": "Look at Syria in 2018, when dozens of Russian mercenaries were killed in a retaliatory defensive strike.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000041768", "text": "But I think it's important that we point out the fact that there was no hate crime; the FBI concluded that.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000041769", "text": "I've mentioned that the payroll tax is something of great interest to the President because it would help low - low- and middle-income Americans most.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000041770", "text": "I've talked before about the extensive surveillance that CDC has made available to this country.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000041771", "text": "And so there is still significant virus circulating here.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041772", "text": "In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000041773", "text": "We have no tolerance for those who disrupt this peace, and we condemn all hate and violence, in our places of worship.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000041774", "text": "I condemn all types of racism.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000041775", "text": "Kayleigh, you used the word embers to describe the coronavirus, but yesterday, another all-time record of 47, 000 cases, and four times this week a new record.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000041776", "text": "And this administration has taken historic action with regard to the coronavirus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000041777", "text": "The President yesterday tweeted that he is angry against China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041778", "text": "There is anger against China in India also.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041779", "text": "Energy in the executive is leading character in the definition of good government.", "issue": "Energy"}
{"id": "0000041780", "text": "The science is on our side here, and we encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science, open our schools.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000041781", "text": "The U.S., Canada, and the UK today accused Russia of trying to hack coronavirus research - vaccine research.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041782", "text": "Today, the nation's top counterintelligence official said that Russia is one of three countries that is actively working to interfere in our election.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041783", "text": "And then China ordered the closing of one of our diplomatic facilities there in retaliation for what happened in Texas.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041784", "text": "The accusations that China is stealing intellectual property are not new.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041785", "text": "He put maximum pressure on Iran and - and cut off much of the terrorist funding that was going to the proxy wars in Yemen, in Hezbollah, in Lebanon, in Syria, and throughout the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041786", "text": "And again, as we - as we recover from COVID, this agreement will help the economies of those countries and the countries in the region expand.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041787", "text": "And I do think that Iran has benefited from kind of dividing and conquering.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041788", "text": "Jared - just to follow up on Iran - please, Jared, you promised me earlier.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041789", "text": "But we do think that we'll have a vaccine by the end of the year.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041790", "text": "And secondly, China has not complied with its commitments under the U.S.-China phase one trade deal.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041791", "text": "Yeah, we encourage China to fulfill their obligations in the phase one China deal and to fulfill their end of the agreement.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041792", "text": "For weeks, the media cited South Korea as being the gold standard for testing.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041793", "text": "As the President has said, this country is at war with the invisible enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041794", "text": "And while we all fight the virus as one united American people, it is a fact that this virus disproportionately has affected those in medically underserved communities, and therefore the President has committed to delivering economic support and quality care for individuals in distressed communities.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041795", "text": "Every state is better off than South Korea at this moment, and that is a very good thing and something to be celebrated because it's American innovation at its best with 92 emergency use authorizations, and it's this administration under President Trump working.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041796", "text": "With the restarting of the economies on both sides of the Canadian and U.S. border, you know how much trade between the two sides are essential for communities.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041797", "text": "And Russia must also respect Belarus's sovereignty and the right of its people to elect their own leaders freely and fairly.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041798", "text": "By mid-October, when demand for a vaccine was at its highest, supply fell dramatically short with as few as 11 million doses on hand.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041799", "text": "But the President's own advisors - Matt Pottinger, Robert O'Brien - said that this virus could be the biggest threat to his presidency.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041800", "text": "He was told then that China is not sharing key data.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041801", "text": "Even on February 29th, as the virus was spreading, the WHO put political correctness first by opposing travel restrictions.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041802", "text": "And my question on the virus was that some polls are showing that a majority of Americans don't trust what the President is saying on the virus vaccine.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000041803", "text": "But currently, I think the other vaccine in phase three clinical trial is the one in Oxford.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041804", "text": "In partnership with the WHO, hid critical information about transmission of COVID from us, about the severity of COVID - not just from us, but from the world.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041805", "text": "After he left, DHS actually got the results in securing the border, building the border wall, and more.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041806", "text": "Some people within the Trump administration indicate that there might be a vaccine within a few weeks.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041807", "text": "Look, this President has led the greatest responseto COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041808", "text": "He's led on COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041809", "text": "I can go back and read for you - in August 2019, In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000041810", "text": "The science was always on our side about keeping schools open way back in July.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000041811", "text": "And he will be unashamed in always advocating for the science and the best interest of the children of this country.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000041812", "text": "The beginning of the end of the pandemic started with the leadership of President Trump.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000041813", "text": "We at the White House are aggressively working on COVID, winding down the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, among other issues.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000041814", "text": "The first doses of a COVID vaccine were administered to frontline workers across the country.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041815", "text": "The President promised a safe and effective vaccine in record time, and President Trump delivered.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041816", "text": "He also said it was weak on China, but no Republican really seems to agree with him on that.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041817", "text": "But I do think what is an assault on democracy are the four investigations into President Trump over Russia collusion that turned up nothing.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041818", "text": "He then said, in September of 2020, the President has a compromised relationship with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041819", "text": "China is making more - sending more overtures that it will crack down on Hong Kong.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041820", "text": "And you had Chris Cuomo saying, The President knows that hydroxychloroquine is not supported by science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000041821", "text": "I think we all hope coronavirus goes away.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000041822", "text": "Because, as you know, Posse Comitatus really prevents the use of the Army to put down domestic insurrection of any kind.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000041823", "text": "And quite frankly, we strongly support democracy in Egypt.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041824", "text": "Democracy has to be a broad section of people that are represented in what would be a free and fair election.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000041825", "text": "I mean, we picked up an agreement with South Korea that had not made any progress.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041826", "text": "So the notion that Egypt isn't ready for democracy I think runs quite counter to what we see happening in Tahrir Square and on the streets on cities throughout the country of Egypt.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041827", "text": "They discussed issues like trade as areas where we could work together.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000041828", "text": "They agreed that education, an issue that we have worked on in a bipartisan way over the first two years of the administration, continues to be one where Democrats and Republicans can and should work together.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041829", "text": "We put greater pressure on Afghanistan and Pakistan -- Al Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and we have increased our cooperation with counterterrorism exercises with the government of Yemen.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041830", "text": "And we'll see if the government of Iran is confident enough in its meeting the demands of its people to let its people show the demands that they have of their government.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041831", "text": "I think that's a threat to the democracy that we have this country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041832", "text": "But anyway, he was a pro-choice Democrat and now he's -- the House has passed some of the strictest legislation restricting abortion that we've seen in a very long time.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000041833", "text": "With more war that's going on.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041834", "text": "He says, ending one war responsibly and working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041835", "text": "In the assessment meeting today about Afghanistan, you said you're going to go over McChrystal's report.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041836", "text": "The administration is spending billions on the war in Afghanistan and on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041837", "text": "Youth crime and gang violence are something that this administration takes seriously and we'll have more on that soon.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000041838", "text": "They'll meet with officials from the school, meet with students and meet with the community to talk about the issues of school violence and youth violence.", "issue": "school violence"}
{"id": "0000041839", "text": "Without a willing partner, one that is free of corruption and transparent, I don't think any situation or any series of meetings can adequately solve for the Afghan people the problem that that would contribute to.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000041840", "text": "But you do need Russia and China to support it.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041841", "text": "Senator McCain in the last few days has also accused the President of dragging his heels on Afghanistan; so has John Boehner.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041842", "text": "That goes from anybody that's here representing -- anybody that's a civilian or anybody also that's in the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041843", "text": "Robert, Christina Romer told Congress today that the stimulus has had its biggest impact already and it's not likely to contribute to significant growth next year.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000041844", "text": "MR No, I -- look, there are -- more than 75, 000 job-creating projects have been started as a result of the infrastructure investment in the Recovery Act.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041845", "text": "On Iran, it seems as if there are reports that the deal that the negotiators agreed to, as far as on nuclear fuel, has been nixed by the government itself.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041846", "text": "You've said that the President's decision on Afghanistan would be weeks away.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041847", "text": "And yet on a monthly basis, about 500, 000 or more Americans are filing first-time unemployment, for benefit claims.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000041848", "text": "Now, Jared has told me that your analysis for the stimulus and its economic benefits doesn't count Cash for Clunkers spending.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000041849", "text": "I mean, obviously -- I think tomorrow, in terms of Afghanistan, will be the meeting and the briefing that is had with members of Congress.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041850", "text": "Two senior lawmakers are saying that there should be a war tax levied to pay for any increase in troops to Afghanistan.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000041851", "text": "After the President was at the U.N., there was some confidence that Russia would be supportive of efforts to invoke sanctions on Iran if that was necessary.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041852", "text": "The former administration -- to add troops to Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041853", "text": "The priority is to ensure that the vaccine that they have is given to our troops here and in the field.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041854", "text": "Remember, the CDC distributes vaccine to states and localities; states and localities make decisions about who gets that vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041855", "text": "But if there's somebody that is not in a priority group that is getting the vaccine, that is obviously a problem.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000041856", "text": "Somewhere in the past, they've supported infrastructure and immigration and education reform.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041857", "text": "I think the same is true on energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041858", "text": "Today NSC senior director Jeff Bader mentioned that China should abide by global norms, like in South China Sea and Central Bank.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041859", "text": "And our investment -- our partnership is paying benefits in our ability to increase our exports and create -- and support jobs here in America.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041860", "text": "He already requested $2.8 billion in assistance for Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041861", "text": "And finally, Russia came out a little bit ago and said the U.N. Security Council would not support oil sanctions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041862", "text": "A union representing U.S. tiremakers won a claim against China for the surge of tire imports in the United States.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041863", "text": "Scientific decisions are based on science; policy decisions are based on policy.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000041864", "text": "In terms of the security situation, obviously the President increased our troop commitment to Afghanistan based on a belief that the security situation for these elections was tremendously important.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041865", "text": "But earlier in the day you reiterated that he thinks that unemployment will still go up to 10 percent.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000041866", "text": "And on Iran, President Ahmadinejad will be sworn in tomorrow.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041867", "text": "Robert, back on North Korea, I think everybody understands the sensitivity of this issue, given the personal stakes.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041868", "text": "While all of this is happening, skepticism about the war is growing with the American public and within his own party.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041869", "text": "And the chairman of that committee, Senator Levin, a Democrat, obviously, is saying he wants the Afghan army to stand up first.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000041870", "text": "So this notion of a government takeover of health care -- that's why the President continues to --", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000041871", "text": "I don't doubt that trade and the global -- global economic health as a result of ensuring that commerce is happening like that will -- I think that will obviously certainly be a topic.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000041872", "text": "On Afghanistan, the previous President often said he had a policy of deferring on issues of troop levels to his commanders.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041873", "text": "Does the administration have a position on whether this should be, this compensation should be studied by the pay czar, the Treasury Department --", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000041874", "text": "Is it fair to say, though, just because your salary is under review doesn't mean your salary won't be paid, is that --", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000041875", "text": "First of all, Iran has accused the U.S. and other Western countries of meddling in its responses or with the comments that have come out about the demonstrations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041876", "text": "Last week when I asked you -- I think it was maybe Tuesday or Wednesday -- if this administration was still open to negotiation with the ruling regime in Iran, you said, yes.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041877", "text": "The first one, in the speeches about the $80 billion deal with the pharmaceutical companies, I haven't heard anything about negotiating price -- Medicare negotiating price with the pharmaceutical industry.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000041878", "text": "Obviously even those in Iran have noted concern with the outcome, and that's why they're also looking into this.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041879", "text": "The concerns that we have about Iran are no different than we had last Thursday or last Friday.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041880", "text": "No, I think this administration's commitment to democracy has been demonstrated in the commitment in resources that we've put forward.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041881", "text": "You said that U.S. interest with Iran haven't changed since last Thursday or Friday.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041882", "text": "Obviously I think Iran will be a topic of discussion, both what's going on in the streets, as well as our national interests and the national interests of Germany.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041883", "text": "That obviously the Islamic Republic of Iran has -- he wants them to take their place in the international community if they're willing to live up to their responsibilities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041884", "text": "And the President actually came out with a stronger definition on Iran, putting a timetable, which is something that the Israelis have been looking at.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041885", "text": "Five years ago when President Aristide of Haiti was overthrown by the military, the previous administration promptly recognized the new government by the chief justice, because under the Haitian constitution he was next in succession.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041886", "text": "I think General Jones was in -- General Jones visited Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India over the course of the past week and spent time talking with the President on that issue as well as Honduras yesterday.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041887", "text": "When former President Bush took this nation to war with Iraq, many people realized there would be sacrifice.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041888", "text": "I don't think what the President has done on Iran is weak.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041889", "text": "The President was concerned about the security situation in Afghanistan, as were commanders on the ground, and additional troops have been approved in order to stabilize the security situation as we head into those important elections.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041890", "text": "I said this weekend last we think unemployment will continue to grow.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000041891", "text": "Robert, you just said that the sanctions on North Korea are having some impact.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041892", "text": "There are reports in North Korea that there has been some effort to secure the secession of the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041893", "text": "Obviously it's a shocking crime and it is, regardless of whatever your viewpoint is, no way -- no way at all to settle differences, even on something that there's obviously great disagreement on throughout this country.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000041894", "text": "On North Korea, this administration has always been pushing diplomacy rather than any kind of military force.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041895", "text": "I'm sure that he takes issue with some of the ways Iran conducts itself, that regime conducts itself up to this point, yet he still felt that engagement was a good policy.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041896", "text": "Chancellor Merkel today spoke directly to the election results in Iran when she said that there should be a re-vote, some kind of recount.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041897", "text": "Is the administration -- towards North Korea now -- is the administration frustrated at all that North Korea doesn't appear to be intimidated by the global reaction to their test firing of missiles and their nuclear --", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041898", "text": "I think, as was the case in 2006, the Chinese government strongly condemned the actions of North Korea as they continue to isolate themselves.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041899", "text": "And also, one more, on the unemployment benefits expiration, unemployment is said to help the economy.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000041900", "text": "Back to North Korea, Robert, and the North Korean alert and the U.N. command going on alert.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041901", "text": "We will -- while not running an auto company on a day-to-day basis, obviously there will be concern about the investment of the taxpayer, as there should be.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041902", "text": "There are people in Iran who would love not to make it about one side in Iran versus another, but to make this about Iran versus the West or Iran versus the United States of America.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041903", "text": "On Iran, Republican Leader John Boehner said today that the U.S. should lead an international embargo on gasoline sales to Iran as a way to encourage the government not to use violence against protestors.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041904", "text": "Obviously I think a discussion on terrorism is likely to happen.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000041905", "text": "This President believes very strongly in dealing with racism and intolerance, but I don't think it was in our national interest to be part of the conference that's going on right now.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000041906", "text": "You know, we're seeing a general economic recession where the demand for virtually every good is down.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041907", "text": "But over the holiday weekend, obviously, there were great concerns about Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041908", "text": "North Korea warned today that the continuing military exercise by the U.S. and South Korea in Yellow Sea could lead to all-out war any time.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041909", "text": "So how effective does the administration believe the military exercise could deter North Korea's --", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041910", "text": "It asked do you think the military can --", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041911", "text": "The U.N. Security Council yesterday unanimously called on North Korea to implement the September 2005 agreement to eliminate its nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041912", "text": "We call on North Korea to cease its provocative threats, to respect the will of the international community, and to honor its international commitments and obligations.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041913", "text": "Well, I think the President's viewpoints on executive compensation for companies that receive extraordinary assistance under the TARP program, and I think the President's viewpoint on compensation in general are well known.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000041914", "text": "And he also talked about making college education more affordable.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041915", "text": "The President has laid out a plan to end the war in Iraq and increase our commitment to the dangerous region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, in addition to many other things.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041916", "text": "I think, Jennifer, in many cases that happened before the economic recession and I think in some ways it's probably only exacerbated by the economic recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041917", "text": "Well, April, he's been focused on the crisis of unemployment for everyone in this country, long before he got elected -- you already look as if you've graded that answer poorly.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000041918", "text": "Well, I think the President's viewpoint on executive compensation have been well discussed in each of these first almost 100 days.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000041919", "text": "We all know the statistics about early childhood education and the difference that it makes even before kids get to kindergarten.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041920", "text": "I think we're at war with extremists that seek to do us harm.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041921", "text": "We are currently engaged in a war in that country, yes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041922", "text": "Iran is not a threat because we have said to other countries it is a threat and you should treat it as such.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041923", "text": "I can discuss Iran and the threat that it poses without ever talking about a purported cable.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041924", "text": "Also discussed were issues of compensation and the importance of recognizing what the American public is going through in this economic crisis.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000041925", "text": "The President obviously has spoken with leaders of both Afghanistan and Pakistan, and they understand why we're there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041926", "text": "No, the stress tests were initiated in order to understand, given a severe economic recession, what the capital requirements would be.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041927", "text": "I think the issues of democracy and human rights are things that are on the President's mind, and we'll have a chance to discuss those in more depth on the trip.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041928", "text": "As the Pakistani President was here, the army opened up full-scale operations in Swat, declared war on the Taliban.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000041929", "text": "One example is in alternative energy, doubling renewable energy generating capacity in just three years, and make ourselves less dependent on foreign oil.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041930", "text": "Third, as you know, there's a major investment in this plan in infrastructure.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041931", "text": "The President is clear that he wants Iran to be a responsible member of the world community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041932", "text": "We'll have news soon on executive compensation.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000041933", "text": "I also expect things like the security situation in Afghanistan and the NATO mission to be part of that, as well.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041934", "text": "As far as the President's focus on the economy -- obviously most of his energy and brain-space has been devoted to the economy and I think most people probably want him to be doing that.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041935", "text": "That's why we went to the U.N. to get a stronger sanctions regime on their ability to move anything out of their country that could do others harm.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000041936", "text": "On North Korea, you mentioned that this latest regime of U.N. sanctions is among the strongest or is the strongest the country has ever faced.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041937", "text": "But the President shares a grave concern about Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041938", "text": "I think the second executive order puts science in charge of those decisions.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000041939", "text": "The conference that was proposed, we would invite and include the neighbors of Afghanistan, which, as you know, geographically Iran is one of them.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041940", "text": "I think the President of Russia talked about -- I don't have his comments in front of me, but -- He blamed NATO encroachment for the need for this.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000041941", "text": "Well, I would say obviously that NATO is a collective defense organization.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041942", "text": "NATO and the United States have worked, and will continue to work with Russia on issues of mutual concern, specifically in areas like terrorism and proliferation.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000041943", "text": "I think you'll hear -- obviously trade will be a part of that discussion.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000041944", "text": "I think you'll hear a discussion on energy, as the President talked about when meeting with regional reporters earlier in the week.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041945", "text": "A couple of housekeeping on the stimulus -- I mean the omnibus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000041946", "text": "No, the President would have agreed that a substantial investment in a health care system that doesn't work and is bloated shouldn't continue.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041947", "text": "He seemed to be losing the message war almost every day.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041948", "text": "Some economists as recently as a couple of weeks ago -- Mark Zandi, his estimate without a significant stimulus would result over the next three years in a loss, an additional loss of nearly 6.5 million jobs.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000041949", "text": "China's Premier said today that China is ready to expand its economic stimulus spending, but he also expressed concern about the safety of China's massive holdings of U.S. Treasuries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041950", "text": "Tim Geithner's comments last week branding China a currency manipulator caused a stir in Beijing.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041951", "text": "In the campaign the President talked about the fact that we had largely taken our eye off the ball in Afghanistan and moved direct resources to Iran -- I'm sorry, to Iraq, to fight there.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041952", "text": "Following up on the stimulus, clearly with the contraceptive decision the President is open to revising some component parts of the stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000041953", "text": "When he was signing the order today banning torture, he referred to the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism -- he did not refer to the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041954", "text": "Well, I think his salary is determined by law.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000041955", "text": "And I think augmentations to his salary and to even some salaries outside of the Executive Office of the President but still in the executive branch of government would have to be augmented by a change in law approved by Congress.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000041956", "text": "Back to Iran, the President of Iran, President Ahmadinejad's speech yesterday calling for profound changes in U.S. policy, an end to support of murdering Zionists, and an apology for U.S. crimes.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041957", "text": "U.N. officials acknowledged yesterday that they believe that Iran has developed enough enriched uranium for one nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041958", "text": "I think I would posit that the recession was big at the end of the campaign.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041959", "text": "On Afghanistan, the Progressive Caucus plans to send a message to the President that they're a little frustrated with his decision to send more troops there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041960", "text": "That's why he believed that the investments that we were making as a result of the recovery plan were so important, that an investment in health IT and medical technology would, as many studies have denoted, drive down the cost of health care.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041961", "text": "The Senate is to allow tax deductions on sales tax and loan interest on new car purchases.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000041962", "text": "But isn't housing the one that the American people really feel the most, more than --", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000041963", "text": "Like our own democracy, I think whether it's turbulent or tumultuous times, or bad weather, did not seem to deter millions from voting yesterday.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041964", "text": "There's -- without a doubt, safe haven in Pakistan by a whole series of people makes security and progress in Afghanistan more challenging.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041965", "text": "But obviously it's an important investment that the President and the team put in the Recovery Act.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000041966", "text": "Well, through these subsidies, which are, in effect -- I don't think investing in infrastructure is -- maybe I'm misunderstanding the premise of your question.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000041967", "text": "In the last six months, the President has lost his top U.S. commander in Afghanistan with the resignation of General McChrystal, and now with the passing of Ambassador Holbrooke, he's lost his top U.S. envoy to the country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041968", "text": "All I'll say on the exercises by the Republic of Korea is that they are our strong allies and we support them.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000041969", "text": "Making some huge cuts in things like education at a time in which we have real competitiveness issues in this country and throughout the world.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041970", "text": "Obviously the President continues to believe that energy and immigration are tremendously important priorities.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041971", "text": "I've got two really important ones on Afghanistan and Pakistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041972", "text": "Obviously we have strong and important partnerships with Afghanistan and a strong -- in Pakistan, a strong ally in common pursuits to address extremism and the threat that it poses.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041973", "text": "Now, in many ways the upcoming elections are a referendum on the way the war has been conducted.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041974", "text": "Again, it's important to understand none of the science in any of the report was changed.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000041975", "text": "Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen have been working with veterans, veteran service organizations, along with General Shinseki, around the alarming and high rate of suicides both in theater and back here, and it's an issue that we can and should take extraordinarily seriously.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000041976", "text": "But let's take wind energy as one.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041977", "text": "The first woman that asked a question said she was still a supporter of the President.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000041978", "text": "The administration and the President have talked quite a bit about pressing China on its human rights record, and Secretary Clinton in advance of this trip also said that that was going to be a major topic of conversation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041979", "text": "We had a state dinner in China; it was brought up before that.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000041980", "text": "And with the war in Iraq still continuing -- even though it's not officially combat, we still have 50, 000 U.S. troops there -- you've got the war in Afghanistan, obviously.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041981", "text": "Well, I think Iran will certainly be a big topic, obviously.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000041982", "text": "We are at war with those who have perverted the values and the beliefs of that religion and who, I would point out, have killed more of their own religion than anyone else.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041983", "text": "You have heard from our commander in Afghanistan that this puts our troops in harm's way.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041984", "text": "Well, look, obviously, we are -- this is a matter for a very young democracy to figure out.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041985", "text": "I don't think anybody is under the illusion that democracy is just an election.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000041986", "text": "To what extent is the President going to talk about his belief not that Iraq was -- may have been the wrong war, but Afghanistan is the right war and needs to be --", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041987", "text": "And finally, during the Bush administration, opponents of the war were constantly asking for a definition -- what is victory going to look like.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041988", "text": "Related to Iraq, when the President was campaigning in '07, he said that the war in Iraq had not made us safer.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041989", "text": "On trade, the President said today that he was committing to submitting the free trade agreements with Panama and Colombia to Congress as soon as possible.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000041990", "text": "Obviously I think energy is on the docket for the Senate to consider --", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000041991", "text": "Again, extending unemployment benefits in a recession has I think in virtually every instance been considered, rightly so, emergency spending.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000041992", "text": "Again, I think throughout the ranks of the military and over at the Pentagon, obviously between the Secretary of State and the Foreign Ministry.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000041993", "text": "On the international front, Israeli and Lebanese forces clashed on the border there, five dead.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000041994", "text": "One House member suggested resignation, so I'm asking what you think your view is.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000041995", "text": "I can't speak for the conduct of that war from an operational perspective for most of that time.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041996", "text": "Again, I think many of our challenges in both Afghanistan and Pakistan are the same today as they were last week.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000041997", "text": "Well, there are critics of the Afghanistan war, increasingly people who are uncomfortable with it even in the Republican Party.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000041998", "text": "Last year at the NAACP, the President talked about education and he put in a lot of civil rights issues as it relates to education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000041999", "text": "We -- a war was fought about it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042000", "text": "China has expressed concern that the U.S.-South Korean naval exercises announced yesterday will further destabilize the region.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042001", "text": "I think science has shown why that's important.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000042002", "text": "Well, again, the President has made a big commitment to securing the border and to Arizona.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042003", "text": "I mean, the President did just invite the President of Russia here to visit with him -- brought him for burgers and the whole bit.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042004", "text": "Contained in the tax extenders bill are tax cuts for small businesses, tax cuts for research and development, unemployment benefits for those who as a result of this recession find themselves as part of the long-term unemployed.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000042005", "text": "MR Obviously South Korea and others have taken the concern about them, the investigation that was conducted, to the United Nations for further actions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042006", "text": "There's been reports of clashes between the Egyptian military and the Egyptian police.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042007", "text": "As is the case with a country like China, we have a whole host of bilateral issues that we deal with countries on, as we did in the recent trip.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042008", "text": "What people are asking now if China has compromised the U.S. security as far as leading in super-computers and all --", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042009", "text": "Throughout the entire diplo-speak that we went through when we traveled the world on Iran, the President regularly would say United Nations sanctions were one part of an entire sanction.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042010", "text": "So -- and the flow -- the amount of discharged pollution will ultimately be used to determine the set of fines that is imposed on BP as a result of the cause of this accident.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000042011", "text": "On North Korea, the United States has existing economic sanctions against North Korea under the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042012", "text": "Some of the market analysis of the drop in BP's share price says that it's purely a result of the political rhetoric and not the fundamentals of the company.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000042013", "text": "On Afghanistan, it was made clear today at the Pentagon in a briefing from Afghanistan that the Kandahar operation is going to begin much later -- or a bit later than originally contemplated.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042014", "text": "Obviously, the Security Council through -- partly through U.S. leadership and certainly other leadership -- has, in Resolution 1874, placed a serious -- placed serious sanctions on North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042015", "text": "To put this in perspective, North Korea is saying any retaliation would mean all-out war.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042016", "text": "Going back to North Korea, Robert, you've used this isolated formulation before and you're part of a long list of spokespeople for various administrations that have used it.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042017", "text": "By my calculation, the largest loss of South Korean life since the war was ended and the armistice was agreed to.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042018", "text": "And, again, I'd point to the things that Iran agreed to eight months ago that are left out of this proposal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042019", "text": "Well, in Afghanistan, we committed three times the number of troops that were there during the Bush administration because we believe that was the central front on the war on terror.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042020", "text": "Well, first of all, the fact that they were transitioning their troops out of Afghanistan has been known certainly by this administration and I think by most of the world for quite some time.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042021", "text": "In Pittsburg, Sarkozy was asking for a deadline about Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042022", "text": "Our security gains that are made through the heroic activities of our military can only be preserved with strong governance to back those up.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042023", "text": "If that's the price of what Republicans want for them to call reform, that's not a price that the President is willing to do.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000042024", "text": "Well, Jeff, obviously as we've mentioned many times, the President has spoken directly with the leaders in China about his concern and his GAP market-based.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042025", "text": "We are in Afghanistan, and our young men and women are in Afghanistan because of the threat that al Qaeda and its extremist allies pose, and posed on September 11th when attacks planned in that area came to New York and just outside of Washington, D.C.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042026", "text": "MR Karzai is the democratically elected leader of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042027", "text": "Again, he is the democratically elected leader of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042028", "text": "And each and every time, when faced with either living up to those obligations or walking away from them, the government of Iran has every single time walked away from them.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042029", "text": "You also have an event today where you're signing -- the President is signing an executive order on abortion that is a pretty big national issue.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000042030", "text": "One of them is calling for a tax on excessive bonuses on firms that got individual assistance from the government.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000042031", "text": "I strongly condemn this outrageous act of terrorism against the Russian people at the Domodedovo Airport.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042032", "text": "Some senior administration officials have called some of the spending ideas as investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042033", "text": "The President's proposal out yesterday actually would raise the Medicare payroll or hospital insurance tax on households making less than $250, 000.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000042034", "text": "A follow-up on a separate issue, yesterday Trade Representative Kirk talked about a holistic approach to trade and other issues with China.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000042035", "text": "I'd like to move to China, and if the administration has any reaction to the bill that's being put to the Senate by Schumer and Graham.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042036", "text": "But I would say that we would not be in Afghanistan if the President didn't think it was in our strong national interest to do so.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042037", "text": "NATO came up in the sense of discussing their contributions and in walking through the commitment that we need, quite honestly, from all of our partners, particularly in the realm of training.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042038", "text": "Robert, there are reports that China has asked the White House to cancel its meeting with the Dalai Lama.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042039", "text": "MR We are no doubt prosecuting the war against al Qaeda and its extremist allies in a way that hasn't been seen before.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042040", "text": "Everybody that's in Washington, that works in the executive branch and the legislative branch, was sent here as part of representative democracy to solve problems.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042041", "text": "The President last night praised the professionalism of the Egyptian military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042042", "text": "Right now the military is being criticized for not intervening to help protesters who are being brutalized.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042043", "text": "I think they get that this current recession started in December 2007.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000042044", "text": "And you've seen the impact of state and local employment on the overall jobs numbers.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000042045", "text": "And also, there might be the inevitable negative reaction by Russia and other countries in that region regarding the presence of an American defense shield in Romania.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042046", "text": "It didn't require measures on executive compensation.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000042047", "text": "Obviously, the U.N. has -- the U.N. provides a significant amount of security, particularly domestic police security.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042048", "text": "So how do you manage -- how do you keep it contained, then, to just -- you have several different issues with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042049", "text": "In the speech to -- in the speech on jobs at the Brookings Institution in December, the President actually called for increasing this type of investment in the private sector to create that environment for additional hiring by an additional $5 billion.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042050", "text": "The President said yesterday we're in a war with al Qaeda.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042051", "text": "It doesn't mean a thriving democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042052", "text": "I just want to go back to the war tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000042053", "text": "He said, On benchmarks for Afghanistan, we cannot turn a blind eye to the corruption that causes Afghans to lose faith in their own leaders.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042054", "text": "You have the commanding general in Afghanistan and the top American diplomat in Afghanistan who sort of publicly disagreed over approach.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042055", "text": "Earlier you said that the primary mission in Afghanistan is to train and set up the Afghan security and police forces to fight the unpopular insurgency there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042056", "text": "The reason that al Qaeda was in Afghanistan was because al Qaeda had the safe haven protection of a government run by the Taliban.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042057", "text": "But we're going to war and he's accepting the peace prize.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042058", "text": "People made conscious decisions to authorize wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and not pay for them.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042059", "text": "I think everybody is clear on the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000042060", "text": "I think scientists are clear on the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000042061", "text": "Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042062", "text": "You go to war with the Secretary of Defense you have, Jake.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042063", "text": "Obviously NATO has played and will continue to play an important role in training both an Afghan national army and an Afghan national police force, both of which are part of the larger umbrella of Afghan national security forces.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042064", "text": "Thirty-two times since 2001, and four times this year alone, senior al Qaeda leadership and recruiting videos have used the prison at Guantanamo Bay as a clarion call to bring extremists from around the world to join their effort.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000042065", "text": "MR I think that -- I think China is being represented by Wen and not by Hu.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042066", "text": "It is in his control what Iran decides to do.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042067", "text": "So we've begun to take those steps if China is unwilling to take -- I'm sorry -- if Iran is unwilling to pursue its responsibilities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042068", "text": "And we're fighting a three-front war basically at once.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042069", "text": "We believe that North Korea should stop its belligerent and threatening behavior.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042070", "text": "So this is not going to be an exact science in how we try and figure out exactly what the implications of that oil is.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000042071", "text": "Our strategic priority is the development of the Afghan national army and police -- the forces that will ultimately secure Afghanistan.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000042072", "text": "Our operational priority lies in securing the southern part of Afghanistan, an area that includes Kandahar, the spiritual center of the Taliban, and Helmand, an economic hub for the insurgency.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042073", "text": "And as we move forward in Afghanistan, we are facing daunting challenges.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042074", "text": "I can tell you that inside Afghanistan the importance of reducing those casualties to convince the Afghan people that we're here for their welfare is absolutely strategic, and so we give it that level of effort.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042075", "text": "As you know, every relationship -- every bilateral relationship, especially one that's as close as we have with Afghanistan, they experience ups and downs.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042076", "text": "Of course, increasing the accountability of the government of Afghanistan is -- that's certainly on the agenda.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042077", "text": "I think Iran's reach into Afghanistan, first, is fairly legitimate.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042078", "text": "On North Korea, we negotiated a unanimous Security Council resolution imposing the toughest sanctions on the books against any country in the world today.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042079", "text": "With respect to Iran, this is a topic that I think will come up in a number of different meetings.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042080", "text": "China has a big stake and is playing large already at the United Nations; has been, as you know, a member of the Permanent 5.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042081", "text": "Promoting trade and investment -- part of this is to hear from African leaders what they feel would be, in the current context, the most appropriate vehicles.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042082", "text": "But I will tell you this, as the President said, he always believed that the criticism from Russia was unfounded, as he said yesterday in his comments.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042083", "text": "Today, Ukraine announced a landmark decision to get rid of all of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium by the time of the next Nuclear Security Summit in 2012.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042084", "text": "As Secretary Clinton has often said, disease and poor health are both a cause and consequence of poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000042085", "text": "We are ramping up efforts to fight poverty, food insecurity, and disease, with solutions that will leave behind the tools to sustain long-term progress.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000042086", "text": "Yesterday, as many of you know, we had a rather significant tornado outbreak across Tennessee going into Arkansas -- right now, reported five fatalities, numerous injuries.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000042087", "text": "The United Nations has passed the strongest sanctions on Iran that we've ever had.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042088", "text": "This crime occurred in 1998, not during the last administration but the administration before that.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000042089", "text": "I don't think it's new technology for the most part, but let me check, and we'll check with General Cartwright", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042090", "text": "On the issue of Chinese tires, in order to have a system of free and fair trade in this country, you're going to have to have a set of rules.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042091", "text": "I think we know the technology works.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042092", "text": "But at the same time, we want to make sure that the border itself and that 2, 000-mile expanse is safe and secure.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042093", "text": "The former deputy secretary of the department under the Bush administration, Steven Griles, was sent to prison.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000042094", "text": "Secondly, we support the democratically elected President of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042095", "text": "But, Ed, to lobby the federal government you have to be registered.", "issue": "lobby"}
{"id": "0000042096", "text": "And also on Afghanistan, Secretary Gates said he believes NATO nations are now more prepared than they were under President Bush to offer more forces in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042097", "text": "And I strongly anticipate, as was the case when the President met -- then President-elect met with the leader of Mexico, that trade will be a part of that docket.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042098", "text": "And obviously, I think the President will discuss with Medvedev today -- I think number one on our agenda with Russia is the topic of Iran.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042099", "text": "The very last portion of the additional resources that the President okayed in March are beginning to arrive in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042100", "text": "I mean, NATO is briefed on and working through the McChrystal assessment just as the national security team in the United States are.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042101", "text": "The Republic of Korea is a close friend and a key ally of the United States and the President looks forward to exploring ways in which the two countries can strengthen cooperation on the regional and global challenges of the 21st century.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042102", "text": "The two leaders will confer on North Korea and will consult on a range of bilateral and other issues.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042103", "text": "I think our approach to North Korea remains under active consideration.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042104", "text": "We're talking about ships capable of carrying significant cargo with WMD or missile technology on them; that's a different endeavor.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042105", "text": "We're working with China and Russia and South Korea, Japan, other neighboring states who have a great stake, as we do, in the issue of regional security and stability.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042106", "text": "And the message to North Korea is that it doesn't benefit from taking further steps that destabilize the Peninsula or the larger region.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042107", "text": "American policy with respect to Iran and its nuclear program is not dependent on which administration is governing Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042108", "text": "I mean, it seems obvious that North Korea will be at the top of the agenda for that meeting, but there's also this outstanding free trade agreement between the two countries.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042109", "text": "Same thing in Afghanistan, where a lot of our efforts are focused on building Afghan capacity to sort of deal in a lot of different areas.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042110", "text": "Well, I'm happy that you acknowledge the efforts in the stimulus -- I'm just wondering why it makes him hopeful.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000042111", "text": "We know that when it comes to education, particularly in the K through 12 context, that state dollars are very important.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042112", "text": "But also taking into account the military aspect of it, we've -- the object eventually, obviously, is to train Afghan national -- an Afghan national security force, army, and police, in order to ultimately transfer control to someone.", "issue": "national security"}
{"id": "0000042113", "text": "On the medical marijuana policy, as you probably know, 14 states allow the medical use of marijuana now.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000042114", "text": "We are obviously continuing to deal with the government of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042115", "text": "But it is the kind of investment that the President promised -- or committed to at the G20 in London in April when he pledged to double food security funding.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042116", "text": "For example, the President made dramatic increases in investment and energy efficiency very early in the administration.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042117", "text": "You mentioned earlier the significant stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000042118", "text": "I think on the stimulus this is still in the process -- the communique is still in the process of being drafted and negotiated.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000042119", "text": "The President said in his speech on Afghanistan yesterday that he had secured commitments from some European countries for troop contributions for Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042120", "text": "No, it's about something different -- it's saying that Russia will urge the new Kyrgyzstan government to close the U.S. base.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042121", "text": "Russia does not have an interest in an arms race in the Middle East.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042122", "text": "They've been with us on North Korea, as have the Chinese, because they don't have an interest in an arms race in East Asia -- and on a range of other issues that were discussed today.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042123", "text": "Just a footnote on Ben's very excellent point, next week we have a major delegation from Russia attending the nuclear security summit.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042124", "text": "But, again, we think that's not a cost, we think that's an investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042125", "text": "Sort of on a related subject, as you're now sending an ambassador to Syria, on the subject of Iran, the leaders there continue to blame the U.S. and the West for the protest that occurred afterwards.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042126", "text": "It just added a second shift that increased its employment by about 1, 100 jobs, to bring it to that 2, 800.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000042127", "text": "Look, as the technology changes, I think more and more people will take advantage of it.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042128", "text": "We are determined to exit that investment as soon as is practicable and this company's future will be in the hands of its management, of its board of directors, of its employees, and of all the stakeholders who sacrificed.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042129", "text": "We all understand the stresses that this war causes first and foremost on the men and women of the military and our civilian forces who are there and their families.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042130", "text": "It includes our efforts to end the war in Iraq, including withdrawing nearly 100, 000 U.S. troops.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042131", "text": "Yes, I would -- well, I'd say it's -- there has been a lot more talk out of Iran since the sanctions started to come into place.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042132", "text": "Due to the miracles of modern technology, I was able to -- we have a statement out offering our congratulations to Colombia on what is a truly remarkable event in removing the leader of the FARC.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042133", "text": "We know that officials in Iran have been anxious about this new round of sanctions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042134", "text": "Sir, the general sense in some -- in terms of the government of Iran is that these sanctions are targeting the people.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042135", "text": "It's the government of Iran and the decisions that they've made that we have a problem with.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042136", "text": "In terms of China, as is obvious, China, of course, not only is a U.N. Security Council permanent member but also voted for this resolution.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042137", "text": "The government of Iran, again, has met those -- the concerns of its people with threatening to kill them.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042138", "text": "And I think if the government of Iran didn't fear the voices of their own people, they'd let them do that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042139", "text": "Queen Rania has been accused of corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000042140", "text": "The Attorney General has issued charging guidance regarding violent crime and criminal immigration enforcement, both of which directly target MS-13 members and their associates.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000042141", "text": "This results in much quicker deportation after these criminals serve out their prison sentences here in the United States.", "issue": "deportation"}
{"id": "0000042142", "text": "As I said yesterday, the President and the administration support sanctions against Russia, Iran, and North Korea.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042143", "text": "The United States condemns the actions of the Maduro dictatorship, and we hold Maduro personally responsible for the health and safety of both men and any other seized by his dictatorship.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000042144", "text": "We still strongly support putting diplomatic pressure on North Korea, which we're continuing to do.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042145", "text": "On the other hand, a clean break, such as advocated by former Ambassador John Bolton, would completely separate the U.S. from any agreement with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042146", "text": "He's gotten China and Russia to sign on to the toughest U.N. sanctions against North Korea, ever.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042147", "text": "The President certainly favors China taking a greater role in putting maximum pressure on North Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042148", "text": "Before the President left for Asia, officials here hinted that North Korea might be added back onto the list of state sponsors of terror.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042149", "text": "On things like Syria, on things like North Korea, we'd like to be able to work with them to confront some of those threats.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042150", "text": "He has bolstered the relationship with NATO and had other countries encouraged in the growth of the amount of money that other countries are participating in that.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042151", "text": "This is obviously a growing epidemic that the President is very committed to fighting against.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000042152", "text": "Now that that case is over, it's been decided -- she's had that abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000042153", "text": "The brave men and women of our nation's military have given extraordinary sacrifices to this longest war in American history.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042154", "text": "They've been making important contributions towards Afghanistan's democracy and their stability, and we think it's important to continue that effort.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042155", "text": "First, the Kremlin has recently threatened Twitter with a complete shutdown throughout Russia if it continues to carry the Twitter account of what they call Undesirables, notably the dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Open Russia group.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042156", "text": "Look, the President has weighed in on Russia and his feelings on that a number of times.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042157", "text": "We've been tough on Russia, we've put sanctions on Russia, we've imported energy, and impacted them in a big way.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042158", "text": "The Iranian regime spends its people's wealth on spreading militancy and terror abroad, rather than ensuring prosperity at home.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000042159", "text": "The Iranian people are angry at the rising tide of corruption in their daily lives.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000042160", "text": "President Moon of South Korea has reached out to North Korea about a possible meeting between North and South Korean officials as early as next week.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042161", "text": "I know you've been asked a version of this question, but just to be very specific, the President said it's time for change in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042162", "text": "Investing in the American worker is the most important investment a business will ever make.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042163", "text": "And so it was viewed very much as China making entreaties to a global economy, saying, Hey we're open for business at a time when other countries are turning inward.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042164", "text": "I am expecting new sanctions on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042165", "text": "You talk about the tax being flatter, and 90 percent of the taxpayers benefitting from it.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000042166", "text": "We have as many sanctions on Iran today as we have on any other country in the process and we'll continue to look at things.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042167", "text": "Afghan forces, with our support, will continue to relentlessly pursue the enemies of Afghanistan, who also seek to export terror around the world.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042168", "text": "By giving parents more control over their children's education, we are making strides toward a future of unprecedented educational attainment and freedom of choice.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042169", "text": "We agree we don't want crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000042170", "text": "And just this afternoon, the President heard from the heads of the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief on their efforts throughout the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000042171", "text": "So, the President has repeatedly touted black unemployment when faced with allegations of racism.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000042172", "text": "Last week, the Florida governor, Rick Scott, called for the FBI Director's resignation.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042173", "text": "Specifically, the President's policy has called for an end to chain migration.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000042174", "text": "So the last suspects of terrorism were not training in Syria or Iraq.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042175", "text": "Because the categories that we have that I just described in family-based migration are so extensive, it's not just nuclear family.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000042176", "text": "Look, I think we've been very hard on Russia from the beginning.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042177", "text": "And that individual wouldn't have been here in order to commit that crime if that wasn't in place.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000042178", "text": "Today, the President tweeted, China has been asked to develop a plan for the year for a One Billion Dollar reduction in the...trade deficit.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042179", "text": "Yeah, Sarah, this administration has now imposed additional sanctions on North Korea after concluding that Kim Jong-un's government assassinated his half-brother using VX nerve agent in Malaysia.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042180", "text": "The President feels, in terms of his employment, that that should be left up to local officials to make that determination.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000042181", "text": "The President today said that Russia is flouting international sanctions on North Korea.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042182", "text": "Such high-level administration officials were in South Korea, and there were some North Korean officials that were present.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042183", "text": "I believe that's a decision for China to make about what's best for their country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042184", "text": "President Putin has confirmed what the United States government has known all along -- which Russia has denied -- Russia has been developing destabilizing weapons systems for over a decade in direct violations of its treaty obligations.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042185", "text": "If we can get to a place where North Korea is denuclearizing, that is a massive step and it's something that will make the entire globe much safer.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042186", "text": "The President is getting promises out of North Korea that haven't been made in any recent years.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042187", "text": "North Korea is in a place of weakness, and that is certainly recognized by the promises that they've made through this conversation.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042188", "text": "I think that is actually what put North Korea on a similar stage.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042189", "text": "Wednesday, Governor Brown said that Donald Trump was declaring war on California.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042190", "text": "The President is going to look at prototypes along the border, and also meet with and speak to the members of our armed services.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042191", "text": "The week after that, the President -- or a head of Russia came out and said he has a first-strike weapon.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042192", "text": "But this is global thermonuclear war we're talking about.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042193", "text": "As far as North Korea goes, can you define -- MS.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042194", "text": "Our two nations stand united against terrorism and those who fund it, as well as in our shared goal to build a more peaceful and prosperous Middle East.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042195", "text": "Larry, today, both Caterpillar and Nvidia said that a slowdown in demand in China is negatively affecting their businesses.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042196", "text": "There is talk in Afghanistan by the U.S. envoy of a deal that would basically pull U.S. forces out of the country in exchange for a guarantee from the Taliban that there would be no terrorist who remained in the country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042197", "text": "Our priority is to end the war in Afghanistan, and to ensure that there is never a base for terrorism in Afghanistan again.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042198", "text": "As the mom of three preschoolers, I support them burning as much energy as possible, and I think sports is a great way to do that.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042199", "text": "Something appeared to have happened on trade, because last weekend Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the trade war was on hold.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042200", "text": "And look, the President ultimately makes the decisions on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042201", "text": "As in, they don't know what decisions they should make for their businesses because of what is playing out here in Washington, here in China, NAFTA negotiations as well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042202", "text": "Being tough on trade and making sure that countries that have engaged in unfair trade practices are held accountable", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042203", "text": "And almost on a daily basis, Republican members of Congress call for his resignation.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042204", "text": "The President is focused on looking at ways where government gets out of the way, people have more control over their own healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042205", "text": "I'd like to ask -- the United States is spearheading a meeting at the U.N., on Monday, on U.N. reform.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042206", "text": "To continue the ongoing and important work of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, Secretary Pompeo will be leaving for North Korea on July 5th to meet with the North Korean leader and his team.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042207", "text": "And Secretary Pompeo, as I just mentioned, will be headed to North Korea later this week.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042208", "text": "We agree to disagree with Russia on that front.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042209", "text": "And our Crimea sanctions against Russia will remain in place until Russia returns the peninsula to the Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042210", "text": "And as far as the one-year timeline, Ambassador Bolton said if North Korea makes the decision to denuclearize, their ballistics programs could be dismantled in a year.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042211", "text": "And they talked pretty extensively about trade and the willingness for both parties to come together to make a deal.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042212", "text": "In response to Jordan, you made very clear that sanctions for Russia, as it pertains to Crimea, are not on the table going into this meeting with Vladimir Putin.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042213", "text": "The President earlier today said that there could be tremendous retribution for the European Union if there's not a deal struck on auto imports.", "issue": "retribution"}
{"id": "0000042214", "text": "Theresa May saying that the British government believes that Russia was behind the attempted murder and poisoning of a former spy with a nerve agent that has a Russian manufacturer.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042215", "text": "That would be a determination for China to make, not something for the United States to weigh in on.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042216", "text": "And a lot of the willingness of China to step up and participate at a far higher level than they have in the past to put maximum pressure on North Korea has certainly been successful, and has been, in large part, due to that relationship.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042217", "text": "One of the other things that he'll also be doing is speaking to members of the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042218", "text": "You'll see all five branches of the military represented at the speech he gives.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042219", "text": "We have seen North Korea make progress since that campaign started.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042220", "text": "We've placed tough sanctions on Russia and a number of other things where we have shown exactly what our position is.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042221", "text": "The readout that was released by the Trump administration did not include any mention of Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042222", "text": "The ambassador from China came to the White House yesterday and briefed members of the national security team, who then briefed the President.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042223", "text": "And with the issue with Syria, and him saying he wanted to, kind of, pull all the troops back.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042224", "text": "He's authorized the sale of lethal aid to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042225", "text": "President Trump believes we can lift our citizens from welfare to work, from dependence to independence, and from poverty to prosperity.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000042226", "text": "You said that the final decision on Syria hasn't been made yet.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042227", "text": "He says, ...bad blood with Russia is caused by the Fake & Corrupt Russia Investigation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042228", "text": "And this morning, the President, on Twitter, said that Russia is supported a Gas Killing Animal.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042229", "text": "And we don't really typically look to the leadership in Iran to determine what our foreign policy is.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042230", "text": "And just about Iran, that deal has been being looked at by a team that was appointed by --", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042231", "text": "But as is clear from the historical record, the U.S. and its partners made this deal with Iran precisely because they knew Iran wasn't truthful about its military nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042232", "text": "When he talked about the prisoners in North Korea, he said the previous administration had failed to get them out.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042233", "text": "When it comes to North Korea, I think you can also look at Otto Warmbier, who was detained during the previous administration, as was one of the current detainees.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042234", "text": "And the President, I think, rightly stated that if North Korea agrees to denuclearize, that it can be a bright future for them.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042235", "text": "Could you add anything more about the President's comments -- he said that China, South Korea, and Japan were willing to invest very large sums of money into North Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042236", "text": "The leader of North Korea has followed through on his commitment to return the first set of remains of Americans to our homeland.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042237", "text": "Making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia or being influenced by Russia against the President is extremely inappropriate.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042238", "text": "Look, as we have said, the President's number-one goal is to make sure Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042239", "text": "And making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia or being influenced by Russia against the President is extremely inappropriate.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042240", "text": "The two leaders committed to maintaining strong sanctions on North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042241", "text": "The President has denounced racism, hatred, and bigotry in all forms, on a number of occasions.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000042242", "text": "The President wants to lower premiums to make healthcare more affordable.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042243", "text": "Technology is playing a growing role in our economy, and this means that technical knowledge and skills are more important than ever.", "issue": "Technology"}
{"id": "0000042244", "text": "It's important to remember that our military is composed entirely of volunteers.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042245", "text": "But every member of the military also knows that what is right about America is worth defending.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042246", "text": "We've not declared war on North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042247", "text": "As you're aware, he donates his full presidential salary on a quarterly basis.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000042248", "text": "His decision to donate his salary is a tribute to his compassion, to his patriotism, and a sense of duty to the American people.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000042249", "text": "In keeping with his campaign pledge, the President donates his salary on a quarterly basis to further important projects.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000042250", "text": "This was an invitation that North Korea offered and that we've accepted, and we're continuing to move forward in those preparations.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042251", "text": "Just going back to North Korea, you have said that the President would be willing to meet with North Korea if North Korea is.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042252", "text": "Their announcement that they would consider opening an investigation into -- among other parties -- U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan is a threat to American sovereignty.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042253", "text": "I think he said the U.S. military and FEMA can't be there forever.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042254", "text": "In fact, in my view, suffer more from the drug -- our drug demand -- which we don't seem to address.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000042255", "text": "And this includes, as I say, our ports -- New York, Boston, Houston -- don't have nearly the issues on the northern border with Canada.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042256", "text": "President Trump in recent days has gotten into a bit of war of words with Senator Bob Corker, the latest Republican who he's had a public feud with.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042257", "text": "Clearly, we have a war that we're seeing every day being won in Iraq against ISIS.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042258", "text": "Finally, you're very right about food bringing people together, and so the press staff would like to invite you to have lunch here in the Navy Mess downstairs in the West Wing.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000042259", "text": "Worse still, some members of Congress have continually opposed efforts to secure the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042260", "text": "We're asking Russia to make a change in their behavior and to be a good actor in the process.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042261", "text": "We're asking China to stop unfair trade practices and we're going to work through that process over the next couple of months.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042262", "text": "The President has repeatedly expressed his annoyance or his dissatisfaction with Iran and criticized the Iranian regime.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042263", "text": "For what it would cost the Guard to make just TWO arrests at the border, we could give a homeless veteran permanent housing for an entire year.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000042264", "text": "The President sees securing the border as a national security issue and protecting Americans.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042265", "text": "On the day that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sworn in, President Trump sent him executive orders to reduce crime in America and to target transnational organized crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000042266", "text": "Instead, fixed price, make everything indifferent to this list price and all the fees not be based on a percent of this artificial list price, which for so many people is like the rack rate on the back of your hotel room door.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000042267", "text": "South Korea has a huge stake in whatever Trump and Kim agree upon.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042268", "text": "That sickness can lead to death, unfortunately.", "issue": "sickness"}
{"id": "0000042269", "text": "During Katrina there was a big issue of, when the people received housing, temporary housing, rent prices went up dramatically.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000042270", "text": "So if you've committed a crime, that's the priority for the Department of Homeland Security.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000042271", "text": "Shifting to Russia for a moment, the decision -- the announcement -- MS.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042272", "text": "Because the President came in determined to improve relations with Russia and they have just gone downhill.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042273", "text": "In addition to the issue of supplies of oil and gas, there's the issue of price, and gasoline has jacked up about 70 cents a gallon.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000042274", "text": "Britain, France, and Germany have proposed fresh EU sanctions on Iran, maybe in a bid to preserve the nuclear deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042275", "text": "The military put forward a five-year defense plan.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042276", "text": "North Korea and South Korea have agreed to march together during the Winter Olympics in the opening ceremony under a unified Korea flag.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042277", "text": "For too long, we have asked our military to carry on stoically with a success-at-any-cost attitude.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042278", "text": "Shutting down the government would be very damaging to the military for all the reasons I just cited about a continuing resolution.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042279", "text": "You just laid out the argument for fully funding the military, why you think every dollar counts.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042280", "text": "As far as the parade goes, again, the President's respect, his fondness for the military, I think, is reflected in him asking for these options.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042281", "text": "Let me ask whether you think that war is actually nearer or closer with North Korea than it was at the time the administration took office.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042282", "text": "In keeping with his campaign pledge, the President donates his salary on a quarterly basis to further work being done on important projects.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000042283", "text": "Most recently, the President donated his third-quarter salary to help the Department of Health and Human Services combat the opioid epidemic.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000042284", "text": "This quarter, as mentioned, the President has generously decided to donate his annual salary to the Department's INFRA Grant Programs.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000042285", "text": "And while the White House does not confirm or deny the existence of potential investigations, the Department of Justice will always review credible allegations of discrimination on the basis of any race.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000042286", "text": "With respect to Iran, they both share the same concern and high priority around countering Iran's malign activities in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042287", "text": "Iran takes advantage of failed states, and civil wars, and wars generally.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042288", "text": "In my space, in foreign policy, of the areas that you mentioned that I work on, are Iran and -- specifically for me, around the Iran deal and JCPOA.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042289", "text": "We are aware that Russia is not the only country that has an interest in trying to influence our domestic political environment.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042290", "text": "But in the run-up to the Helsinki Summit, U.S. officials, ambassadors to NATO, ambassadors to Russia said that the President would raise the issue of malign activity with President Putin.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042291", "text": "So DHS is focused on the election infrastructure in support of state and locals that have the primary responsibility.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000042292", "text": "So what we have done, as you know, is -- in 2017, DHS designated election infrastructure a critical infrastructure subsector.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000042293", "text": "The second aspect of the Korean -- of the Singapore commitment was the recovery of remains in North Korea, which DPRK officials reaffirmed last month.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042294", "text": "The full weight of the United States government is engaged to ensure that food, water, healthcare, and other lifesaving resources are making it to the people in need.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000042295", "text": "People didn't think we could get to 3.1 percent GDP for a while.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000042296", "text": "I think that's the right investment to make.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042297", "text": "Energy here -- electric power -- is supplying the hospitals that are providing medical care to the wounded and those that brought medical conditions and had chelation needs and other needs.", "issue": "Energy"}
{"id": "0000042298", "text": "You know, free trade throws off enormous benefits when it's done properly, and consistency, and in a reciprocal manner.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042299", "text": "As the President has said repeatedly, America and his administration supports free and open trade, but it needs to be fair and reciprocal.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042300", "text": "How about in Syria, when the Syrian regime committed mass murder of its own people, with the most heinous weapons on Earth.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042301", "text": "And our interests overlap in encouraging American investment in Africa, and African investment in the United States.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042302", "text": "Nine-year-old Sophia Marie Campa Peters suffers from a rare disease that causes the blood vessels in her brain to narrow and close.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000042303", "text": "About a month ago, the President issued a threat to North Korea; he warned of fire and fury.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042304", "text": "And as you know, Ambassador, at the U.N. Security Council you've imposed tougher sanctions on North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042305", "text": "I think what was really important with North Korea was that we try and push through as many diplomatic options as we have.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042306", "text": "I think just in Syria, we've had over $3 billion that we've given, in terms of helping that situation.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042307", "text": "I think the efforts in Syria have been remarkable -- both Syria and Iraq.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042308", "text": "And I can tell you, Iran is not going to be in charge, and Iran is not going to have any sort of leadership in that situation to where they could do more harm.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042309", "text": "Through the President's strong action, the United States will target the means with which the Maduro dictatorship can accumulate debt to enrich its corrupt regime insiders and perpetuate its repressive behavior.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000042310", "text": "The Maduro regime has consistently shown hostility to the rule of law, democratic institutions, and the Venezuelan people.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000042311", "text": "Well, I think, as you know, on Russia we've taken very significant actions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042312", "text": "And, as you know, Afghanistan is connected to broader security concerns across the region.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042313", "text": "In keeping with his campaign pledge, the President continues to donate his salary on a quarterly basis to further important priorities.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000042314", "text": "The Iranian regime has systematically pursued a policy of hostility toward the United States that defames the central premise of the Treaty of Amity.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000042315", "text": "I don't think Iran is dismantling its nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042316", "text": "The overall test will assess the operational readiness of the infrastructure for distribution of a national message, and determine whether technological improvements are needed.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000042317", "text": "The President, the week before last, signed an executive order on infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000042318", "text": "The fact is, because we're fighting this war overseas in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan, and working to strengthen our relationships with those allies, has led to this intelligence stream.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042319", "text": "No one in America should feel afraid to follow the religion of their choosing freely and openly.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000042320", "text": "Governor Branstad apparently has a really positive view on China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042321", "text": "And solving this epidemic is a huge priority for the President.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000042322", "text": "I think the President understands that our southern border is where we have more of a concern in terms of the number of people and the type of activity that's coming over there in terms of the cartels and drug activity.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042323", "text": "In these and other similar activities, Iran continues to threaten U.S. friends and allies in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042324", "text": "The Trump administration condemns such actions by Iran that undermine security, prosperity and stability throughout and beyond the Middle East, which places American lives at risk.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042325", "text": "President Trump has severely criticized the various agreements reached between Iran, the Obama administration as well as the United Nations as being weak and ineffective.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042326", "text": "Instead of being thankful to the United States in these agreements, Iran is now feeling emboldened.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042327", "text": "Wait, my question is about the fighting in Ukraine and Russia-backed rebels are moving the lines forward.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042328", "text": "And the action and the notice that he put Iran on today is something that is important, because I think the American people voted on change.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042329", "text": "He has proposed great rebuilding of our nation's military, following a full review of our military readiness and supported by a $54 billion budget increase.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042330", "text": "It's not a question -- there's an element of tax -- Most Secretaries of State can accommodate that.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000042331", "text": "There's a lot of trade and economic interests on both sides, and obviously there's an element of national security that we share.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042332", "text": "At this critical time when we're talking about healthcare, it's ironic that they refuse to consider someone with such amazing expertise in this area.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042333", "text": "Something as complicated as this, that deals with one-fifth of our economy, that was a major takeover of our healthcare system, isn't a simple thing.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000042334", "text": "And just this morning, Samsung confirmed that it's planning a major investment in U.S. production facilities, directly citing the President's election as an influence in their decision.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042335", "text": "I think that just because somebody has healthcare doesn't mean that they can't empathize with somebody who doesn't.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042336", "text": "Robin Shahini has been imprisoned in Iran since last October for collaborating with a hostile government -- that government being the United States of America.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042337", "text": "China and the United States in particular both understand the threat that North Korea poses to the region.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042338", "text": "The President has made clear he has no interest in Russia, and yet a lot of these stories that come out with respect to that are, frankly, fake.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042339", "text": "And secondly, just changing gears radically onto -- China overnight issued some strong rhetoric promising consequences for the deployment of the THAAD missile system to South Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042340", "text": "With respect to China, I think I addressed this yesterday.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042341", "text": "But we obviously understand the concerns of China, but -- this is a national security issue for them.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042342", "text": "This morning, after receiving his intelligence briefing, the President led another listening session on healthcare with Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Tom Price.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042343", "text": "They've had family members with chronic preexisting conditions whose cost of healthcare has more than doubled.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042344", "text": "We're absolutely reducing funding to the U.N. and to the various foreign aid programs, including those run by the U.N. and other agencies.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042345", "text": "That leaves infrastructure probably third, which may come after the August recess in Congress.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000042346", "text": "When we talked about science and climate change, let's deal with them separately.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000042347", "text": "I think they talked about safe havens in Syria, they talked about the threat of ISIS.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042348", "text": "This week, he and his staff will have discussions on women in healthcare while continuing an open dialogue with members of Congress.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042349", "text": "And I think he has been very forceful with his denunciation of people who seek to attack people because of their hate -- excuse me, because of their religion, because of their gender, because of the color of their skin.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000042350", "text": "On Russia -- critics of the President have said that at time he doesn't talk tough enough on the subject.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042351", "text": "Currently, schools are prohibited from denying access to public education based on immigration status.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042352", "text": "And obviously, I think healthcare is going to come up, too.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042353", "text": "One, as far as 68 countries representing against terrorism or against ISIS at the State Department under the leadership of Secretary of State Tillerson -- there was an advisor to the President of Afghanistan coming here speaking at CSIS.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042354", "text": "The last administration spent eight years delaying this enormous investment in American energy independence.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042355", "text": "He recognizes the importance of that to both energy and to jobs and our economy, and simply got it done.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042356", "text": "The office will have a particular focus on technology and data, hearing back from leaders in the industry.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042357", "text": "This order will help keep energy and electricity affordable, reliable and clean in order to boost economic growth and job creation.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042358", "text": "I don't think we've seen the end of healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042359", "text": "Stopping this epidemic is not -- is an issue that every American, regardless of your political background, can and must get behind.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000042360", "text": "But the United States has profound priorities in Syria and Iraq, and we made it clear that counterterrorism, particularly the defeat of ISIS, is foremost among those priorities.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042361", "text": "We also stopped the war on coal by continuing a coal leasing program.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042362", "text": "And finally, as a veteran myself, I tell you, I am thrilled at the President's decision to donate the check he did today.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000042363", "text": "Chairman Old Coyote -- the chairman once said, a war on coal is a war on Crow Nation, and coal jobs are the only jobs.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042364", "text": "Obviously, a major meeting with the President of China, but his eyes are going to be here on Washington.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042365", "text": "Later, the Attorney General is also at the southwest border to announce specific new actions the Trump administration is taking to secure our borders and keep the country safe.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042366", "text": "Russia must fully honor the commitments it made on Syria, Ukraine, and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and other topics of international concern.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042367", "text": "Today, in the background briefing, top officials accused Russia of helping Syria cover up Assad's use of chemical weapons.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042368", "text": "And I think that Russia has been party to several international agreements that Syria is not holding up to -- in fact, that Russia needs to hold themselves up to.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042369", "text": "The administration has said sanctions against Syria are forthcoming.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042370", "text": "The last thing we want to see is a nuclear North Korea that threatens the coast of the United States, or, for that matter, any other country and any other set of human beings.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042371", "text": "So, no, I don't see a future Syria that has Bashar al-Assad as the leader of that government.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042372", "text": "But make no question about it, there is no peaceful and stable Syria in the future that Assad is the head of.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042373", "text": "I think that Russia has joined an international agreement regarding not just the use, but possession of.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042374", "text": "But at this point, Russia is not even agreeing with the U.S. contention that the Syrian government carried out the attacks.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042375", "text": "The only countries that aren't supporting the U.S.'s position are Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Russia.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042376", "text": "They are failed states with the exception of Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042377", "text": "So these individual states -- when Russia is saying that they don't agree with us, they are not siding with other nations of stature.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042378", "text": "As Ambassador Haley said at the time, the dire situation in Eastern Ukraine is one that demands clear and strong condemnation of Russian actions.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042379", "text": "He's headed the DIA, he has been an outstanding member of the Army, both as an officer and then as a flag officer.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000042380", "text": "Look, the Obama administration tried to have a reset with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042381", "text": "But with respect to Russia, I think the comments that Ambassador Haley made at the U.N. were extremely forceful and very clear that until --", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042382", "text": "The individual who was designated for his role in abuses in Iran's prison is the brother of Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's IRGC Quds Force, who was himself previously designated under terrorism, counter-proliferation, and human rights authorities.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000042383", "text": "The sanctions against human rights abusers in Iran's prisons come at a time when Iran continues to unjustly detain in its prison various foreigners, including U.S. citizens Siamuk Namazi and Baquer Namazi.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042384", "text": "Yesterday you heard from the President himself, alongside NATO Secretary General, about the need for a strong-funded Alliance to combat terrorism, the humanitarian crisis ongoing in Syria, and many other serious threats to our collective safety and security.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042385", "text": "However, I'd like to point out the abstention of China, on the heels of President Xi's recent successful visit, and Kazakhstan, a longtime Russian ally and former member of the Soviet Union.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042386", "text": "And NATO, in particular, he talked about the need of countries to pay their fair share, to live up to their commitments of 2 percent of GDP.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042387", "text": "He talked about the fact that NATO is moving towards what he has been calling for.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042388", "text": "I think it's important to know who Russia is on the side with right now and where they stand.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042389", "text": "And I think if China is able to help get a deal with China* the President would appreciate that.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042390", "text": "I think this would be great for China as well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042391", "text": "In the first question, again, I think General Nicholson at United States Forces Afghanistan is best to address the tick-tock on the situation over there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042392", "text": "I think that the U.S. Forces Afghanistan as well as the Department of Defense are best to walk through the military operations that are ongoing there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042393", "text": "While in South Korea, the Vice President participated in an Easter church service with both American and South Korean servicemembers and their families, and has been holding bilateral meetings with representatives of the South Korean government.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042394", "text": "Defense officials have estimated for a long time that war on the Korean Peninsula would cost thousands of lives, it could economically devastate South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042395", "text": "In 2008, Dr. Whitson became the first woman to command the International Space Station.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000042396", "text": "There's been some talk about stricter sanctions on Iran for the ballistic missiles test that it's been conducting and state finance of terror.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042397", "text": "I think part of the review -- the interagency process -- is to determine where Iran is in compliance with the deal and to make recommendations to the President on the path forward.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042398", "text": "This follows the roundtable on vocational education and workforce development -- issues that are central both to Ivanka and the Chancellor's agenda that they hosted here at the White House in March.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042399", "text": "And I think on healthcare --", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042400", "text": "He's obviously still committed to seeing infrastructure, something he's talked about a lot in terms of roads and bridges and rebuilding things.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000042401", "text": "The attack on Syria won not just bipartisan praise here at home, but world praise.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042402", "text": "So, just to be clear, I can't -- I don't think it's -- you can't imagine a stable and peaceful Syria with Assad in charge.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042403", "text": "You can't have ISIS marching through Syria and then worry mostly about who's in charge right now.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042404", "text": "Well, I think the first thing with respect to trade is we need to have the Senate to approve Robert Lighthizer as the next U.S. Trade Representative.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000042405", "text": "But I think that if North Korea continues down a degree of provocative behavior, then those circumstances will never be there.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042406", "text": "The President clearly, as I've said, understands the threat the North Korea poses.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042407", "text": "He called Russia the greatest threat of any nation on Earth.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042408", "text": "You've got an individual in President Xi in China that has taken fairly significant action to help the -- work with the United States, especially with respect to our desire to end the threat in North Korea that has been unprecedented.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042409", "text": "This investment is dependent on the NIH and the important research it funds.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042410", "text": "And I think, as he's noted, Lieutenant General Flynn was asked for his resignation because he misled the Vice President.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042411", "text": "And within 11 days after that, we accepted General Flynn's resignation that the President had asked for.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042412", "text": "The President asked for and accepted his resignation.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042413", "text": "The last executive order re-focuses the energy and resources of the federal government to dismantle transnational criminal organizations, such as drug cartels.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042414", "text": "After the executive order signing, the President spoke with the President of Afghanistan and the Emir of Qatar.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042415", "text": "Sean, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said today that they could use a few thousand more troops in Afghanistan to help the coalition efforts there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042416", "text": "But what has happened in Afghanistan is the Afghan army is taking the brunt of the fight against these transnational terrorists and the Taliban.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042417", "text": "I think the President's comments about Russia and collusion have been very clear with respect to some of the charges that have been made.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042418", "text": "King Abdullah of Jordan agreed that the grave challenges of terrorism and extremism... demands coordination and global action at every level.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042419", "text": "The President also urged NATO to adapt the Alliance to more effectively combat terrorism.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042420", "text": "And I think healthcare has been something that the President has been very clear on throughout his time as a candidate, through his presidency, to make sure that the American people get the care and the accessibility that they need.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042421", "text": "He wants to defeat threats -- to defeat terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042422", "text": "It benefits us, it benefits NATO, and it benefits themselves.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042423", "text": "The President's results when it came to fighting terrorism was a big thing.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042424", "text": "And we believe that that is Ukraine's -- a part of Ukraine and so, therefore, until -- those sanctions will remain.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042425", "text": "And then on North Korea, I think the President once said that he'd be open to meeting with Kim Jong-un.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042426", "text": "What they're backing is a government takeover of universal care that doesn't have any market forces and is going to cost our country $32 trillion.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000042427", "text": "He said, I think it was Russia but I think we also get hacked by other countries and other people.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042428", "text": "And, as the President has said very -- on numerous times that if we can find areas of agreement with Russia, especially with respect to the fight against ISIS, safe zones in Syria, then we'll do it.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042429", "text": "On North Korea, the government of North Korea said that Otto Warmbier's death is a mystery to them.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042430", "text": "Its employment would actually fall below the agreement that it has with the state.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000042431", "text": "And I think the technology that we're able to utilize these days make it one of the cleanest uses of technology that we have.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042432", "text": "They understand the importance of NATO, and the President is very clear that in order for NATO to be successful, these folks have to pay their fair share.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042433", "text": "With respect to the sanctions that specifically deal with Ukraine and Crimea, I think that Ambassador Haley has spoken very, very clearly about that.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042434", "text": "As the President said yesterday, members of our military and their families are our nation's heroes.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042435", "text": "But I think Iran is kidding itself if they don't realize that there is a new President in town.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042436", "text": "I think obviously the threat of North Korea is the most prominent issue that faces South Korea in our alliance right now.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042437", "text": "It will work with industry to protect critical infrastructure and maintain our way of life.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000042438", "text": "Today, the United States put new sanctions on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042439", "text": "She is an unbelievable, remarkable woman who has fought very hard to improve our nation's education system and to make sure that schools are serving children.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000042440", "text": "We have freedom of religion in this country, and I think people should be able to practice their religion, express their religion, express areas of their faith without reprisal.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000042441", "text": "The President and his national security advisor have been clear the administration wants to put Iran on notice, but they haven't specified what that is.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042442", "text": "To say this isn't to deny science isn't to acknowledge it honestly.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000042443", "text": "The key U6 unemployment rate, which gives a broader look at both unemployment and under-employment, fell a full percentage point since the President took office in January.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000042444", "text": "Because the model was, you manage tensions with China as the U.S. government by having areas of cooperation, and this was previously an area of cooperation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042445", "text": "As we announced last month, as part of the U.S.-China 100-Day Action Plan that followed up the President's meeting with President Xi, China agreed to reopen this $2.5 billion market to American ranchers and cattle producers.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042446", "text": "But obviously, the most important of the topics, or the one that, at least, people want to hear about most is the situation in North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042447", "text": "Our trade with APEC nations supports millions of American jobs.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042448", "text": "So they will have the opportunity to discuss issues like Iran, which are particularly important in the wake of the IAEA report, as well as discussing Afghanistan in the lead-up to some important international conferences on Afghanistan.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042449", "text": "And I would mention that China was the first country to welcome the President's decision to join the East Asia Summit.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042450", "text": "And if we're able to lock those down and deny them to non-state actors, then we have essentially solved the risk of nuclear terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042451", "text": "As it relates to Iran, again, that is an issue that is separate from the agenda of the summit.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042452", "text": "It seems that this drug war and trafficking of guns really was significant in this press conference that just happened.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042453", "text": "He's someone who fought for science and technology.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000042454", "text": "Under President Hollande's leadership, France hosted the COP-21 conference on climate that's brought together nearly 100 -- nearly 200 countries to be the first-ever deal of its size and scope to help combat climate change.", "issue": "climate change"}
{"id": "0000042455", "text": "So in terms of our sanctions against North Korea, we can get you an update.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042456", "text": "And even in the wake of such a serious upheaval that happened in the midst of their failed coup, that these values need to be respected.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000042457", "text": "That's why the President believes that our technology and our cyber defenses need to be kept up to speed.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042458", "text": "We'll be looking for specific actions by Russia that show the Assad regime that Russia is going to fulfill their commitments.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042459", "text": "China doesn't agree with the U.S. and it doesn't agree with the regional countries and those claiming a serious matter there.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042460", "text": "We know, Justin, that China is trying to negotiate its own trade deal in this region.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042461", "text": "But our view is that not only is it in America's best interest to write the rules of the road for trade, it's in America's business interest that American companies and American workers are advantaged by the deals that we arrange.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042462", "text": "The President's leadership on the international stage has isolated Russia more than ever before in recent history.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042463", "text": "The UK remains a valued member of NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042464", "text": "There were reports over the weekend that millions of dollars' worth of CIA weapons were sold by Jordanian intelligence officials -- they were intended for the rebels in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042465", "text": "We know that Iran supports terrorism, and we know that Iran supports Hezbollah.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042466", "text": "The battle to squash the virus began months ago in Florida, but over two dozen local governments in Florida are collectively seeking millions of dollars to stop the threat.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000042467", "text": "This administration has, in fact, worked to ensure that every woman has access to the health care she needs.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000042468", "text": "I think that you've seen Russia show an eagerness to cooperate with us militarily.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042469", "text": "And above all else, if we don't set the rules of the road in the economies in this region, China is going to.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042470", "text": "In Vietnam, currently U.S. auto exports face a 70 percent tariff.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000042471", "text": "And auto parts face a 32 percent tariff.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000042472", "text": "On Friday, the President will attend G7 meetings on energy, climate -- in particular the implementation of the Paris agreement -- and the prosperity of Asia and the United States.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042473", "text": "That includes attracting a significant investment from Lufthansa to build a facility in Puerto Rico that would have promised 600 jobs.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042474", "text": "The image of President Assad meeting with President Putin in Russia was very striking, and it suggests that he feels very confident and that he feels like he's in a much better position than he was a couple of weeks ago.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042475", "text": "You knew India's concern about terrorism; now you know about Pakistan's concern about terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042476", "text": "Again, this is a deal that prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042477", "text": "Because, for us, those are entirely separate and unrelated issues -- that the 60-day clock with Iran was written in a legislation that they wrote.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042478", "text": "So the President yesterday, when asked about Senator Warren on their kind of back-and-forth on trade, made the point that this was not personal and that even some of his best friends in the Senate disagree with him.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042479", "text": "And he was actually very candid in his understanding of why those differences exist; that for years, the issue of trade has been particularly challenging for Democrats.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042480", "text": "Eric, in the country of Gambia, there is continued hostility by the government against LGBT people and other groups.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000042481", "text": "As the war in Afghanistan wound down, we felt like it was the appropriate thing to do.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042482", "text": "This was a winding-down of the war in Afghanistan, and that's why this arrangement was dealt.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042483", "text": "One is, NATO says that Russian artillery has moved into Ukraine and is firing on government positions.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042484", "text": "With respect to the developments in Ukraine, we very much condemn the violation -- flagrant violation of Ukraine's sovereignty that we saw today with the movement of this Russian convoy into Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042485", "text": "The government of Ukraine did not give agreement for this convoy to move within their borders.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042486", "text": "The President's one limiting factor that he's communicated repeatedly in public and to the military is we don't want to be reintroducing U.S. forces into a combat role on the ground.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042487", "text": "Trade with ASEAN countries supports more than 500, 000 American jobs.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000042488", "text": "In fact, companies from all 50 of our states engage in trade with ASEAN.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042489", "text": "But I think it unlikely that China wants to be seen by the international community as the protector of North Korea, given its recent outrageous behavior in violation of international law and U.N. Security Council resolution.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042490", "text": "And they threatened to upend the deal with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042491", "text": "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un continue to threat that the North Korea can preemptive attack, nuclear attack to Washington and Seoul.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042492", "text": "China is very strongly opposed to THAAD deployment, and you are -- you're talking with South Korea to deploy THAAD in Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042493", "text": "And again, Iran has been the focal point of that effort under this administration even as we deal with the legacy of nations that have nuclear weapons and nations like North Korea that have flouted their international obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042494", "text": "We want Russia at the table on issues of nuclear security.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042495", "text": "And ultimately that's a decision that Russia will have to make.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042496", "text": "But on the Iran deal, you said thus far we have seen Iran meet its major commitments under the JCPOA.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042497", "text": "In this region, the most important proliferation problem is in North Korea, which is Chinese technology gotten through Pakistan, and China has the most leverage in the North Korea situation.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042498", "text": "As long as China is playing by those rules and adopting it, none of this is focused on China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042499", "text": "Well, on North Korea, I think he's referring to the fact of their nuclear program and that they're certainly the leading threat as it relates to nuclear proliferation.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042500", "text": "It means important investments in renewable energy, like wind and solar and biofuels.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042501", "text": "At the end of the day, what the President and his national security team and our generals in Afghanistan are focused on is making sure that we accomplish our goals in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042502", "text": "About 10 months ago, the then leader of Syria, Muammar Qaddafi, gave a speech.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042503", "text": "What we have said on this issue is that further militarizing the situation in Syria at this point in time is not a wise course -- that is not the wise policy course to pursue at this point.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042504", "text": "And that progress has no doubt been aided by the efforts of NATO and our partners in the region who have provided some pretty significant support on that front.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042505", "text": "And the U.N. and others here have been for weeks calling for that type of non-politicized end to violence, reconciliation and such ever since the military ousted Morsi with pretty poor results and a death toll that's reaching about a thousand.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042506", "text": "As I mentioned yesterday never before has getting a college education been more important to ensuring that middle-class families have access to economic opportunity.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042507", "text": "Josh, if I can quickly, the Egyptian Prime Minister today, Josh, says that he doesn't fear civil war in Egypt.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042508", "text": "On the big picture of foreign policy right now, you have Russia ignoring our request for Snowden, ignoring our request for cooperation with Syria and putting pressure on Syria.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042509", "text": "That's true of the Assad regime in Syria, and that's certainly true of the interim government in Egypt -- sort of the two most intractable problems that we've been dealing with lately.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042510", "text": "In this case there's no reason to believe that the U.N. will be granted access to that location given the fact that the terms of the negotiation between the regime and the U.N. inspectors --", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042511", "text": "Following up on a question you said you would take yesterday, the U.S. government currently classifies marijuana in the category of most dangerous drugs with no medical benefit, the same category as heroin and more harmful than cocaine or meth.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000042512", "text": "But the President, from this podium, spoke very clearly about the consequences of Syria or members of the Syrian regime using chemical weapons or moving them around in a way that would contribute to their vulnerability or to their transfer to other groups.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042513", "text": "One, as far as democracy in Pakistan is concerned, they have, for the first time in history, a five years full term as a democratic government in Pakistan.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042514", "text": "The Treasury Secretary was over in China, had -- was the first civilian leader to see the new Chinese President.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042515", "text": "The fact that she's the first woman to lead this agency is notable and I think it's important, but it's not the reason she was chosen for the job.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000042516", "text": "What they'll see is the results of the significant investment and commitment that this administration has made to securing the border.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042517", "text": "Well, as you know, Jeff, the United States has been working with our allies in South Korea on a range of military exercises that are defensive in nature.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042518", "text": "On Bill's question about guns -- obviously, we should note that Republicans are threatening a filibuster in the Senate, and most Republicans in the Senate and House are talking about opposing a lot of these gun control measures.", "issue": "gun control"}
{"id": "0000042519", "text": "We have consistently called on North Korea to improve relations with its neighbors, including South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042520", "text": "It's also been important investments in renewable energy -- something you heard the President talk about earlier this week when he was in Iowa.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042521", "text": "In addition, inflammatory statements such as those by Foreign Minister Lavrov earlier this week in which he described ethnic cleansing taking place in Ukraine are simply false.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042522", "text": "Multiple reports by human rights monitors over the past several months have indicated that armed separatists groups supported by Russia are perpetrating an increasing number of killings, abductions, and other violent human rights abuses in eastern Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042523", "text": "But those who are interested in additional resources being deployed to the border should support the commonsense, bipartisan immigration reform proposal that passed through the Senate and right now is being blocked by House Republicans.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042524", "text": "In the past, White House officials have said that Mitt Romney's position on Iran showed no discernable difference with the President's position and that if he wanted to articulate a difference, he should.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042525", "text": "Certainly the threat that's posed by Iran and North Korea -- their unwillingness to live up to international obligations when it comes to nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042526", "text": "From the beginning, that missile defense system has been oriented to address threats from Iran and other places.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042527", "text": "Just to give you a couple facts -- and I think sadly, this is not about education; this is about politics.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042528", "text": "So there are certainly members of our uniformed military or gentlemen who have served honorably in our United States military who are confident in our military capabilities to protect the nation's security.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042529", "text": "And the prospect that neighbors of Syria are threatened by that violence is something that we're significantly concerned about.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042530", "text": "Even the potential for a recount, the possibility of corruption -- some people are saying there might not be a leader in place until this summer, until June.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000042531", "text": "A stable and acceptable political transition is critical to sustaining international support for Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042532", "text": "After some really strong criticism over the last couple of weeks over Ukraine, you might say the President has had a really good week with the health care numbers and now job numbers -- I mean, definitely not a negative there.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042533", "text": "That the turmoil that we're seeing in Ukraine is directly related to the aspirations of the Ukrainian people and their sense that their government is not doing a good job of representing their wishes and their aspirations.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042534", "text": "And you have people in Ukraine who are not focused on whether or not the United States would benefit from one decision of the Yanukovych administration.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042535", "text": "But what is undeniably true -- and this has been an operating principle for some time in terms of our dealings with Ukraine -- is that the government does have the principal responsibility for restoring peace and ensuring that violence is not perpetrated against peaceful protestors.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042536", "text": "But the focal point here is ensuring that the government of Ukraine is both respecting but also representing the will of the people.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042537", "text": "It is past time for the leadership in Ukraine to listen to the voices of its people and to restore a path to European integration and economic health.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042538", "text": "You'll recall that at the end of the war in Iraq, there was a protracted discussion with the government of Iraq about an enduring U.S. military presence there.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042539", "text": "You talked about the issue of trust between Iran and the United States, and the history around that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042540", "text": "This is a woman who is supported by Ken Starr, Ted Olson, Paul Clement, Mike Mukasey.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000042541", "text": "Secondly, at the height of the war in Afghanistan there were 100, 000 American troops, servicemen and women in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042542", "text": "As the President contemplates what kind of response is appropriate to the situation that we've seen in Syria, the President believes it's important for us to consult with Congress.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042543", "text": "Unfortunately, what we're seeing right now is Russia repeatedly block efforts at the U.N. to hold the Assad regime accountable.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042544", "text": "The American people went through this before with the war in Iraq about a smoking gun, about a slam dunk.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042545", "text": "Trade is, for Caterpillar -- and really for the continued benefit of the global economy -- absolutely essential.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000042546", "text": "And then the second question involves China, sort of a follow-up there.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042547", "text": "Yes, I think we've all looked at China as this extraordinary consumer base, and yet, we recognize they're a extraordinary competitor over time.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042548", "text": "I think our view of free trade is more, sooner, and broader.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042549", "text": "We're importing built-up products from outside of China, we're importing components into China from the U.S. to support our China manufacturing operation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042550", "text": "As we approach our milestone of transitioning lead responsibility for security to the Afghans, they can discuss a transition underway in Afghanistan, as well as our plans for supporting the Afghan government after 2014.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042551", "text": "They will clearly discuss the situation in Syria to include the most recent chemical weapons assessment that we've provided; the efforts that are underway to support both the opposition but also a political settlement in the country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042552", "text": "I'd also anticipate they'll discuss Syria, Iran, and Middle East peace as issues that we regularly consult with the Germans on.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042553", "text": "And international tax has been a core piece of President Obama's agenda since he first ran for President in 2008.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000042554", "text": "And, of course, Russia shares a significant counterterrorism interest with us as well.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042555", "text": "And there's a very active conflict in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042556", "text": "Iran sees its only serious ally in the region significantly threatened.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042557", "text": "If you were to institute a no-fly zone -- I understand there needs to be secrecy in war and peace on some military movements, et cetera, of course.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042558", "text": "You've seen significant investments in Africa from China, Brazil, Turkey, and the U.S. would be ceding its leadership position in the world if the President of the United States was not deeply engaged in Africa.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042559", "text": "As you all know, President Biden believes affordable, safe housing is the foundation upon which families build their lives.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000042560", "text": "This investment is paired with expansion of bipartisan tax credits and incentives to lower barriers to affordable housing in more -- and higher-opportunity -- places across the country.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042561", "text": "That is how we fight COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000042562", "text": "You mentioned at the top that unemployment is down, wages are up, and that's a testament to the progress that President Biden has made on the economy.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000042563", "text": "It's to invest that long-term investment to make sure that people feel that relief.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042564", "text": "And so, he has been focused on COVID, making sure that we're getting shots in arms.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000042565", "text": "Because of the decisive action the President took with the Rescue Plan and his efforts to fight the pandemic, our economy has rebounded at a rate unsurpassed in modern history, far outstripping those of our peer countries.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000042566", "text": "And also, it fights inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000042567", "text": "And so, you know, protecting the cornerstone of our democracy should not be a partisan issue but, sadly, what we're seeing is that it has -- this has been the case.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042568", "text": "His leadership and bills -- and those bills now resulted in unprecedented economic recovery that is the envy of the world, historic job growth, the fastest drop in unemployment in history, strengthened supply chains, and boosted competitiveness against China.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000042569", "text": "The leaders discussed their recent diplomatic engagements with Ukraine and Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042570", "text": "Russia's foreign minister is advising Putin today that Russia keep pursuing diplomatic negotiations.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042571", "text": "As you know, NATO membership -- NATO has an open-door policy.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042572", "text": "That is not something -- that is something that Ukraine will have to decide on its own.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042573", "text": "That is something that NATO has to decide on and Ukraine.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042574", "text": "And so, one of the things that we have said over and over again, and the President has made this very clear to Vladimir Putin, is if Russia chooses to invade, there will be swift and severe economic consequences.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042575", "text": "So, these prudent precautions in no way undermine our support for our commitment to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042576", "text": "During their conversation on Sunday, the President of Ukraine purportedly invited President Biden to visit Ukraine in the coming days.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042577", "text": "On the Russia -- the Russian issue in particular? So, as you know, Secretary Blinken was just in the region, where he met with the Quad.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042578", "text": "And in the weeks and months that follow, billions of dollars in additional money will be flowing to improve our critical port infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000042579", "text": "And bolstering this work is historic levels of investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000042580", "text": "The CDC's recommendation of pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11 represents a major step forward in the country's fight against COVID-19.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000042581", "text": "In addition to being one of the closest allies, Canada remains a key U.S. partner in energy trade, as well as efforts to address climate change and protect the environment.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042582", "text": "And as we have made clear, the deadline is not a cliff for employees in comp- -- compliance; they will go through education, counseling, accommodations, and enforcement as is standard to their agency.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042583", "text": "And going back to the Fed question earlier, one of the members of the board announced his resignation today.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042584", "text": "With these steps, the U.S. and our allies and partners around the world make clear to Russia that actions have consequences.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042585", "text": "And it's an issue of high concern for China that's been raised with the U.S. government and with our administration at various levels.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042586", "text": "We believe that China has engaged in decades of unfair trade practices -- forced technology transfers and the like.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042587", "text": "That our trade deals really are asymmetric; that we charge pretty much no tariff at all on imports into the U.S. But a lot of our trading partners have either high tariffs or high non-tariff barriers.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000042588", "text": "And so even if you look at the U.S. sales of autos into Korea, then there are a lot of non-tariff barriers that make it so that U.S. firms can't sell there.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042589", "text": "I think the unconditional laws of recession are something that people who study this, like Jim Stock at Harvard, talk about.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000042590", "text": "First, on Syria, we saw the statement from this administration last night.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042591", "text": "On Korea, look, the President has been clear throughout the campaign and again during now, he's looking for the best deal possible for American workers, specifically focused on reciprocal trade.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042592", "text": "I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000042593", "text": "Every day that I have been up here this week, I've included -- a pretty heavy portion of the opening statement has to do with healthcare and a number of other issues that are part of the President's agenda.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042594", "text": "Like I said before, the debate and the battle over healthcare isn't over.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042595", "text": "On North Korea, he called on all nations to isolate the regime and to cut off all ties of trade and commerce.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042596", "text": "After this two and a half hour meeting with President Putin that the President had in Germany, how would you describe the state of U.S. relations with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042597", "text": "There's a whole lot that we'll talk about in terms of what constitutes a cyberattack, what's war and what's not war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042598", "text": "And, frankly, I think that if you put the veteran and the servicemember first, you would come to the conclusion that we've come to today.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000042599", "text": "Despite multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions imposing international sanctions, the government of North Korea continues its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042600", "text": "Well, I think, as you know, in Iran, these sanctions were very effective, and that's what brought Iran to the table.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042601", "text": "I think we will continue to work with China and everyone else.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042602", "text": "Again, this is about North Korea, and this is about how serious we're taking this.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042603", "text": "The healthcare that's been in place is a bad deal for the American public, and that's why a lot of people aren't using it.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000042604", "text": "We have sanctions on Iran already.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042605", "text": "We will continue to put more sanctions on Iran around their ballistic missile and other programs.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042606", "text": "The only person that I see a war on is this President and everybody that works for him.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042607", "text": "So he has his own farm, and in addition he works for the company, leading part of their environmental protection efforts.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000042608", "text": "All of these things are issues that those of us in agriculture see as potential limiting factors economically and things that we need to address.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000042609", "text": "Can you tell me -- trade has been such a big issue for the administration.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042610", "text": "Another issue that's very important for agriculture there is not just that estate tax issue, particularly given the new limits, but also the question of stepped-up basis.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000042611", "text": "The first question is whether North Korea would join the voluntary multilateral pre-launch notification regime that we're announcing today, and we certainly hope they would.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042612", "text": "We have worked with North Korea on other issues where they've shown cooperation.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042613", "text": "Actually, part of the discussion in Prague is going to center on transforming NATO to meet the new threats of the 21st century.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042614", "text": "But as we've also pointed out, the President begins every day focused on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042615", "text": "On the first part of your question about regarding the war on terrorism, we continue to make great progress on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042616", "text": "Well, first of all, the President's views on partial birth abortion are well-known, and he believes we need to end it.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000042617", "text": "MR Well, certainly, a safe, orderly, humane migration remains a priority for this administration.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000042618", "text": "The war on terrorism came to our shores on September 11th in a very vivid and tragic way.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042619", "text": "But our view remains one of zero tolerance.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000042620", "text": "Senator Daschle was expressing doubts about progress in the war on terrorism, Scott.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042621", "text": "Well, first of all, I think the American people recognize that the war on terrorism is not -- it is a long war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042622", "text": "MR Ron, this war has always been about more than one man, and it will continue to be --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042623", "text": "Our view is zero tolerance when it comes to complying and cooperating with this resolution.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000042624", "text": "And the secondly, the war on terrorism, you said it's going to be a long war.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042625", "text": "Humanitarian aid to Afghanistan started on day one of the war with 37, 000 humanitarian daily rations air-dropped while those attacks were underway, and more than 575, 000 metric tons of food been delivered since the start of the war.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042626", "text": "This is a different kind of war we're engaged in, against a very dangerous, determined and lethal enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042627", "text": "We are advancing in the war on terrorism by taking the fight to the enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042628", "text": "That is a central front in the war on terrorism, and we must continue to work together, no matter where you have stood on previous decisions that were made.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042629", "text": "And we're looking at additional ways that NATO can support those efforts.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042630", "text": "That means the war on terrorism, it means our economy, and it means other issues, such as Medicare, which I mentioned earlier.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042631", "text": "I will tell you, in a time of war, the DO is fully employed in clandestine operations, many of which have been very successful in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042632", "text": "The Middle East was a breeding ground for terrorism for decades; we looked the other way or tolerated dictators for the sake of peace and stability in the Middle East.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042633", "text": "War was brought to our shores.", "issue": "War"}
{"id": "0000042634", "text": "The President took a broad look at the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042635", "text": "Some took a view that the war on terror was simply about Afghanistan, and the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042636", "text": "This is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042637", "text": "The transitional government is moving forward on drafting a constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042638", "text": "Well, we stay in touch with the leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan, not only at the presidential level, but at various other levels, as well.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042639", "text": "They have made this a central front in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042640", "text": "There are many who have looked at the war on terrorism and said it is a law enforcement matter, that we should prosecute people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042641", "text": "And the President outlined a comprehensive strategy for winning this war and defeating the ideology of hatred and oppression.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042642", "text": "The United States decided -- has decided to supply North Korea with 50, 000 tons of food yesterday.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042643", "text": "Well, our concern is that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program under the cover of a civilian program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042644", "text": "As the President has said for some time now, Iraq is a central front in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042645", "text": "This is all part of the war on terrorism, and that's why we're going after them and seeking to bring them to justice.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042646", "text": "The President believes that the death tax should be wiped out and that it should not come back to life.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000042647", "text": "He expressed in his letter of resignation that he would work to make sure that the transition was smooth and that there would be an appropriate time period for a transition.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042648", "text": "We are committed to fighting poverty and combating hunger.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000042649", "text": "If you look -- if you look at the terrorists and the regime elements that are seeking to derail the transition to democracy, they are in a desperate mode, and here's why.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042650", "text": "Scott, I appreciate the President's fight against terrorism and also standing for human rights and democracy and freedom around the globe.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042651", "text": "Scott, last week the drug czar said that Mexico is a model to fight terrorism -- I mean narco-traffickers.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042652", "text": "Just last week our military announced the capture of another top Zarqawi lieutenant, the head of operations in Mosul, a very dangerous individual who was responsible for a lot of death and destruction in Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042653", "text": "They are a partner in the global war on terrorism, and they have been working with us to go after al Qaeda and Taliban remnants.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042654", "text": "Those are winning the war on terrorism, of which Iraq is central, and economic security, making sure that we have lasting prosperity.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042655", "text": "So the President recognizes that the war on terrorism, Iraq specifically, and the economy, are two top concerns on the minds of the American people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042656", "text": "And, two, the interim government -- interim elected government is moving forward on drafting a constitution on the timetable of August 15th, which was set out in the transitional administrative law.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042657", "text": "Iraq is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042658", "text": "To compare the way our military treats detainees with the Soviet gulags, the Nazi concentration camps, and Pol Pot's regime is simply reprehensible.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042659", "text": "But these enemy combatants are providing us valuable intelligence in the war on terrorism and helping us to disrupt plots and prevent attacks.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042660", "text": "But it is a war that continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042661", "text": "Even if you try to say it's not war", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042662", "text": "The two leaders discussed the constitution, the drafting of the constitution in Iraq.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042663", "text": "A free Iraq is an important part of winning the war on terrorism and transforming a dangerous region of the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042664", "text": "Well, I think that would be for Russia to talk about.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042665", "text": "And we continue to support the people of Iran in a number of different ways.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042666", "text": "And the constitution that the Iraqi people adopted gives Iraqis the flexibility to work out how to divide authority between the central government, provincial governments, and regional governments.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042667", "text": "The war in Iraq has cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042668", "text": "And I would just add that it is time for North Korea to come back and be prepared to move forward in a serious way on that proposal.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042669", "text": "North Korea has a strategic decision that they need to make to abandon their nuclear ambitions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042670", "text": "It addresses the concerns that North Korea has.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042671", "text": "And he said that the hardliners in North Korea won out earlier this year in a struggle there, in a factional fight within the North Korean hierarchy, and that the hardliners still believe that the United States wants regime change in North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042672", "text": "Well, North Korea has been a closed society and has not been transparent about that, and that's a concern we have.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042673", "text": "We want to make sure that food gets to those who need it.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000042674", "text": "Unemployment has dropped to 5.1 percent; inflation is low; interest rates remain low and GDP growth is steady.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000042675", "text": "That's the best way to win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042676", "text": "The National Academy of Science report back in 2001 said there are considerable uncertainties about the science of climate change.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000042677", "text": "There was a discussion in New York yesterday; North Korea expressed their commitment to the six-party process, but they did not indicate a date when they would be returning to the talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042678", "text": "That also indicates some sort of commitment by North Korea --", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042679", "text": "We also need to make sure we have the infrastructure in place to be able to move forward on those initiatives.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000042680", "text": "We have expressed concerns when it comes to China and our trade.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042681", "text": "In terms of the European Union constitution, I think that that's a matter for the voters of Europe to decide, and we've expressed that.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042682", "text": "There is momentum because we have a democratically-elected leader in President Abbas who is committed to democracy and peace, so I reject that characterization outright.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042683", "text": "And we have concerns about Syria's allowing terrorists operating inside their territory that are carrying out attacks inside Iraq.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042684", "text": "And also in -- according to a Pakistan newspaper, Omar Mullah, he criticized Afghanistan and the U.S. strategy -- or the joint statement yesterday.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042685", "text": "And ex-foreign minister is running on the Taliban ticket in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042686", "text": "They're playing a critical war -- I mean, they're playing a critical role in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042687", "text": "Back in 2001, when he went to the Naval Academy, he spoke about the need to transform our military to address the threats of the 21st century.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042688", "text": "I think our views on Iran have been made known very clearly, and our concerns about Iran, and our support for the people of Iran as they seek greater freedom.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042689", "text": "On North Korea, they've indicated a willingness to return to the bargaining table, they say, if Washington clarifies conflicting statements on U.S. policy.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042690", "text": "We've also made clear to North Korea that the six-party talks are the way forward to resolving this issue.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042691", "text": "We appreciate the government of Afghanistan working with us in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042692", "text": "They have discussions with host governments, they have discussion with the government of Afghanistan and they have agreements in place.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042693", "text": "The President strongly supports the advance of science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000042694", "text": "And one of the priorities that the President is focusing on today is the importance of expanding trade, and I expect that's what he will touch on in his remarks at the swearing-in ceremony.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042695", "text": "The military put in place policies and procedures to make sure that the Koran was handled -- or is handled with the utmost care and respect.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042696", "text": "The decisions that the military is going to make is going to be based on conditions and circumstances on the ground.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042697", "text": "Scott, the President's four-point plan to lower the price of gas is being criticized as merely window dressing.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000042698", "text": "One, we're working to win the war on terrorism, and we are winning.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042699", "text": "Certainly, when it comes to the humanitarian situation in North Korea, we are very concerned about the plight of the North Korean people and the suffering that they face under this regime that is in power.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042700", "text": "The Security Council, the United Nations, and the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency has called on Iran to take specific steps, to come clean and to comply with its obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042701", "text": "Every week, people are wringing their hands in concern over Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042702", "text": "Iran made an agreement with the Europeans that while these negotiations were ongoing, that they would suspend their uranium enrichment and reprocessing-related activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042703", "text": "It was to educate the American people about the problems facing Social Security.", "issue": "educate"}
{"id": "0000042704", "text": "The President and President Hu discussed North Korea, and the importance of the six-party talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042705", "text": "The war on terrorism continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042706", "text": "Yesterday marked a significant moment in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042707", "text": "We work very closely with Russia in a number of areas, whether it's trade, economic issues, or our cooperation in the global war on terrorism, and our cooperation on stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042708", "text": "They are continuing to have discussions with Iran; we support the efforts of the European 3 as they move forward.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042709", "text": "We continue to urge North Korea to come back to the six-party talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042710", "text": "The agreed framework, I would point out to you, is what North Korea was violating at the very time that they had agreed to it.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042711", "text": "I think one of our concerns with North Korea, without necessarily going into that specific issue, is that they were in violation of their safeguards obligations and their nonproliferation obligations even before they withdrew from the Nonproliferation Treaty in 2003.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042712", "text": "And we welcome dialogue between China and leaders in Taiwan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042713", "text": "And as the President pointed out, they had a very good discussion about the constitution, as well, and the importance of continuing on the timetable that was set out, of August.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042714", "text": "Today's remarks focus on the importance of harnessing new technology to make us more energy-independent.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042715", "text": "The fundamental problem we are in is that our supply of energy is not keeping up with the demands of our growing economy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042716", "text": "As you're aware, the government doesn't set the price.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000042717", "text": "Russia is a valued member of the Quartet and we appreciate their support for the road map.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042718", "text": "Syria has taken an important step by pulling their military forces out of Lebanon.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042719", "text": "In terms of Syria, and we've talked about concerns that we have with the government in Syria, and those are concerns that remain.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042720", "text": "We're making use of new technology to help secure our borders.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042721", "text": "I'm sure they'll talk about the war on terrorism and our global efforts to work together to combat terrorism, and a number of other issues, as well.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042722", "text": "I mean, it is something that the government in Ukraine has been investigating and looking into.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042723", "text": "Okay, on -- first of all, on Afghanistan, our focus is on making sure that Afghan forces are trained and equipped and able to provide for their own defense and security.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042724", "text": "We've been working very closely with the government in Afghanistan on -- and having ongoing discussions about how we move forward.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042725", "text": "On North Korea, it is reported that North Korea had requested the closure of the U.N. Humanitarian Affairs Office in Pyongyang.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042726", "text": "We all have a shared goal of making sure Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042727", "text": "And the Europeans stressed the importance of Iran providing objective guarantees.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042728", "text": "And that's why it's important that Iran come clean, cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency and that they abide by their other international obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042729", "text": "They talked about the importance of fighting corruption and rule of law.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000042730", "text": "And the President made it clear that as Ukraine moves forward on democratic and economic reforms, the United States will be there to support them in those efforts.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042731", "text": "Well, our assessment of Iran remains the same.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042732", "text": "MR Our concerns remain the same regarding Iran, and this is an issue that's still being looked into by the government of Ukraine.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042733", "text": "And beyond that, I'd leave it to Ukraine, the government of Ukraine to discuss.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042734", "text": "We remain engaged in a global war on terrorism, and the United States stands strongly with the Egyptian people as we wage this war and prevail in this war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042735", "text": "We are winning the war on terrorism, but the threats remain.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042736", "text": "We remain engaged in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042737", "text": "London's Daily Telegraph quotes Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz as saying, Of all the threats we face, Iran is the biggest.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042738", "text": "Well, Pakistan has been a good partner in the global war on terrorism, and they've been a good partner in working with international community to address proliferation issues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042739", "text": "Well, I think the government of Ukraine is investigating those issues and they are acting in a responsible manner.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042740", "text": "In terms of our concerns about Iran, they are many, and we have expressed those views.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042741", "text": "Iran is acting in a number of ways that causes us great concern.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042742", "text": "She has made education a top priority throughout her life and her career.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042743", "text": "The first thing that North Korea needs to do is make a strategic decision to completely abandon its nuclear weapons ambition.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042744", "text": "And that's why the President believes that the war on terrorism that we're involved in now must be a comprehensive effort.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042745", "text": "Now in terms of these two countries, they are both partners in the global war on terrorism, and we are working closely with both to confront the threats that we face today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042746", "text": "And the people of Afghanistan have shown their commitment to moving forward on a free and democratic future.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042747", "text": "And Mrs. Bush has been looking forward to going to Afghanistan for some time now, to focus on an area that has always been important to her, and that is education.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042748", "text": "Both leaders agreed that the criminality and violence must end.", "issue": "criminality"}
{"id": "0000042749", "text": "This war is an ongoing effort, but as we carry out those obligations to protect the American people, we must do so in a way that adheres to our laws and our values.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042750", "text": "Yesterday morning at the session, the President said -- he expressed reservations about helping Russia with is nuclear powers, because of his concerns about it.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042751", "text": "So the President believes very strongly in free and fair trade, and Congressman Portman is someone who shares that commitment.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000042752", "text": "And new technology helps us make sure that we can do this is an environmentally responsible way.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000042753", "text": "And we also appreciate Jordan's strong statement calling on Syria to withdraw completely from Lebanon.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042754", "text": "In the meantime, you oppose the EU's arms embargo lifted towards China.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000042755", "text": "Well, one of the most important efforts that we have undertaken in the global war on terrorism is to advance freedom and democracy in the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042756", "text": "Affordable, abundant supplies of energy are important to make sure that we are meeting the needs of a growing world economy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042757", "text": "And the President -- in terms of the issue of Syria, the President continues to call on Syria to completely withdraw all their military forces and all their intelligence services as soon as possible.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042758", "text": "Scott, South Korea has been designating North Korea as main enemy of South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042759", "text": "That South Korea has removed the , the main enemy from the South Korea's annual defense report.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042760", "text": "I think our focus with South Korea and China and Japan and Russia remains on urging North Korea to return to the six-party talks, the six-party framework.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042761", "text": "And Iran has made commitments not to do that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042762", "text": "Well, there are serious -- there are serious concerns we have about Syria and Iran.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042763", "text": "We work very closely with Russia in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042764", "text": "That is how we will win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042765", "text": "But the war on terrorism is a comprehensive strategy that -- we are working to implement a comprehensive strategy when it comes to the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042766", "text": "But this is a global war on terrorism, and all civilized countries are working together to win that war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042767", "text": "Well, Terry, we're talking about the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042768", "text": "But this is a different kind of war, and it requires us to gather intelligence in order to protect the American people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042769", "text": "But this is a global war on terrorism where we're working closely with many countries around the world to prevent attacks from happening and to win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042770", "text": "But if you're talking about terrorists who have been apprehended in the war on terrorism, we do have an obligation to gather intelligence from them.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042771", "text": "Well, winning the war on terrorism is our nation's highest priority.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042772", "text": "We've been talking about the war on terrorism in many of the questions that have been asked today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042773", "text": "And this is a different kind of war that will require a long, sustained, and determined effort.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042774", "text": "MR Iran has continued to support terrorist organizations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042775", "text": "The IAEA and all the members of the Atomic Energy Agency sent a very clear message to Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042776", "text": "Iran has got to make the decision to change its behavior and abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042777", "text": "MR have expressed concerns that Iran is trying to influence the shape of the transitional government.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042778", "text": "And what he was citing in his remarks today is that part of winning the war on terrorism is continuing to go after the terrorist leaders.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042779", "text": "And failure to reopen the border with Canada could have serious economic consequences, as well, on the beef and cattle industry here.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000042780", "text": "The President, obviously, is of the view that Syria should pull its troops, intelligence officials -- pull its influence out of Lebanon immediately.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042781", "text": "That's why it's also important for Syria to remove the military forces and remove the intelligence services.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042782", "text": "Israel, for example, has raised concerns that if Syria came rushing out of there, the Hezbollah -- I think that's getting ahead of ourselves at this point.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042783", "text": "On the issue of Iran, you said Secretary Rice is here to brief the President, and had her lunch with others here at the White House.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042784", "text": "And that common purpose is to make sure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042785", "text": "And that end result ultimately depends on what Iran decides to do.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042786", "text": "Yesterday, the agency issued another criticism of Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042787", "text": "Syria continues to support terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042788", "text": "We've known for more than two years that Syria has been supporting various Palestinian terrorist organizations.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042789", "text": "While the international community is working to support the aspirations of the Palestinian people in real and practical ways, Syria is frustrating those efforts.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042790", "text": "And one of the areas where there was important progress was when it comes to Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042791", "text": "And Iran has certain international obligations that they have committed to.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042792", "text": "What we want to do is make sure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042793", "text": "Scott, as far as the President's faith-based initiative is concerned terrorists in the past, and even today, using religion in the name of terrorism.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000042794", "text": "That's how we ultimately win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042795", "text": "You have the most violent attack in Iran since the war began yesterday.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042796", "text": "The resignation of the Karami government represents an opportunity for the Lebanese people to have a new government that is truly representative of their country's diversity.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042797", "text": "We have concerns about their continuing support for terrorism, namely Hezbollah.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042798", "text": "We have concern about Syria allowing terrorist organizations to operate within their territory.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042799", "text": "And we want to make sure that Iran abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042800", "text": "We all have a shared goal of making sure Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042801", "text": "And when it comes to Iran, there are a number of discussions about where we stand with regards to Iran and its interest in nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042802", "text": "Apparently, the deal that Russia made with Iran to sell Iran nuclear fuel is on, at least, a temporary hold.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042803", "text": "And we've also made it clear it's important that Iran ratify and adhere to the additional protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042804", "text": "Russia is someone that shares the concern of the international community that Iran should not be permitted to acquire a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042805", "text": "It blames or accuses China and Saudi Arabia, including many other countries, violators of human rights this year.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042806", "text": "Norway is contributing to democracy and stability in Afghanistan, the Balkans and Iraq, and working with us to resolve conflicts and provide assistance in Sudan, Sri Lanka and elsewhere around the world.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042807", "text": "That's what we've made clear -- Syria and their troop presence in Lebanon is a destabilizing force in the region.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042808", "text": "We've expressed our concerns about Syria's continued support for terrorism, we've expressed our concerns about Syria's behavior with regards to Iraq, and we've expressed our concerns on other issues, as well.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042809", "text": "We have, in terms of our ways for addressing our concerns with Syria, we have a Syria Accountability Act in place.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042810", "text": "North Korea needs to come to a strategic decision to dismantle and eliminate its nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042811", "text": "North Korea knows what our views are when it comes to their nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042812", "text": "Scott, as far as fighting against terrorism is concerned, President Bush is very famous in India.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042813", "text": "Syria has maintained a military presence there for sometime now, and that is a concern of ours.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042814", "text": "First of all, he was invited to go to Russia by the Russians.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042815", "text": "They're vital tools in the ongoing war on terrorism that we're engaged in.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042816", "text": "I think all countries continue to urge North Korea to come back to the six-party talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042817", "text": "North Korea must make a strategic decision to dismantle and eliminate its nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042818", "text": "And the way for North Korea to realize better relations with the international community is for North Korea to make a strategic decision to dismantle and eliminate its nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042819", "text": "Well, I think we've expressed our concerns about Syria and their impact on the region.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042820", "text": "You talked about sanctions against Iran if they don't comply with dismantling their nuclear energy program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042821", "text": "United States said that Iran, the regime of Iran supported international terrorism, especially Hezbollah -- the close relation of Iran and Syria.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042822", "text": "Do you agree that there is some kind of -- maybe Iran is doing something with what happened today, with the Prime Minister --", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042823", "text": "Concerning the economic activity of North Korea, there actually is the argument about economic sanctions to North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042824", "text": "The two reaffirmed our shared view that North Korea must end its nuclear weapon program, and that's really the extent of the readout.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042825", "text": "We've also made very clear that North Korea has ample opportunity to visit directly with us in the context of the six-party talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042826", "text": "North Korea violated that agreement and continued to pursue nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042827", "text": "Scott, you referred previously to the diplomatic strategy on North Korea, I'd like to turn you to the question of assessing the nature of the threat.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042828", "text": "And that's why it's important for North Korea to come back to the talks, so that they do not continue to isolate themselves from the rest of the world.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042829", "text": "But North Korea made a commitment to work through the talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042830", "text": "And they're all sending the same message to North Korea about the importance of coming back to the talks, and the importance of North Korea eliminating its nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042831", "text": "With regards to Iran, I think we've made it very clear that Iran made some commitments -- they made some commitments to the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042832", "text": "We have an obligation to meet, during a time of war -- we must do everything we can to support our troops who are in harm's way.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042833", "text": "We must do everything we can to support our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042834", "text": "We must do everything we can in this war on terrorism that continues, to protect the homeland.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042835", "text": "Now, time will tell if Iran is serious about doing that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042836", "text": "We urged North Korea to come back to those talks, so that we can move forward in a substantive way on that proposal.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042837", "text": "Second, on this China -- converting passenger planes into spy planes, like they said in the past that China made a threat to the world peace and threat to the U.S.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042838", "text": "We've made it very clear that North Korea needs to end -- permanently end its nuclear weapons programs.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042839", "text": "They're going to write a constitution, you know, weapons of mass destruction or making sure it's a pluralistic government, a representative government.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042840", "text": "Before the war, there were estimates coming from the administration that it would cost about $50 billion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042841", "text": "This is about fighting and winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042842", "text": "When you have someone like Zarqawi come out in an audio tape and say that this is an all-out war on democracy, that states how high the stakes are in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042843", "text": "MR Okay, I mean, if you're talking disability, the President has made it pretty clear in the past that people with disabilities shouldn't see any change in their benefit structure.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000042844", "text": "The Iraqi people will vote on that constitution, to ratify it, and then they'll hold elections for a permanent government at the end of December.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042845", "text": "Scott, talking about North Korea, North Korean -- agencies are quoted to have state that the North Korea is now ready to officially declare the possession of nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042846", "text": "Our view remains the same in terms of North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042847", "text": "There's been a war of words going on between the White House and the Senate Democrats over Condoleezza Rice's nomination to be Secretary of State.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042848", "text": "We remain engaged in an ongoing global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042849", "text": "The President, when Secretary Rumsfeld first came into office, tasked him with transforming our military so that we're better prepared to respond to the threats of the 21st century.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042850", "text": "Obviously, I talked about that at the beginning -- winning the war on terrorism is right at the top of our priority list.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042851", "text": "Iraq is central to winning that war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042852", "text": "Those were important steps that were announced by China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000042853", "text": "A week ago, several congressmen went to North Korea -- like Congressman Weldon just came back to Washington yesterday -- he got a message from North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000042854", "text": "But we have a number of concerns about Iran, including their pursuit of nuclear weapons and their interest in longer-range ballistic missiles, and we've expressed those concerns.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042855", "text": "And following that, he received his -- he participated in the briefing on the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042856", "text": "Well, I think the military is probably the best place to direct those questions.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042857", "text": "In the war on terror, did anything come up with that in the context of the inauguration, anything about any threat or anything --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042858", "text": "And we will win this war on terrorism through the leadership that the President is taking.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042859", "text": "MR And we are in -- we're talking about the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042860", "text": "And when the government asks the United States military to leave, then that would be the point in which --", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042861", "text": "MR Well, tomorrow, the President -- and the last couple of days, the President has been focusing on education, because education is fundamental to our long-term, sustained economic growth and job creation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042862", "text": "Well, this administration went to war, when it went to war, based on information that proved to be incorrect.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042863", "text": "I think the military would be the best one to address those questions to.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042864", "text": "This transitional government will draft a constitution, present it to the Iraqi people for adoption, and then the Iraqi people will move forward on electing a permanent representative government for their future.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042865", "text": "But in terms of the war on terrorism, it is a war that continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042866", "text": "It is a different kind of war, and we remained engaged in this war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042867", "text": "In terms of some of the issues relating to this oil-for-food program investigation, I think we've made our views very clear.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000042868", "text": "That transitional government will draft a constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042869", "text": "So democracy takes time to build, but the Iraqi people are committed to moving forward on a free and democratic and peaceful future.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042870", "text": "We can stand on the side of democracy and freedom and peace, or we can stand on the side of terrorists and tyranny and oppression.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042871", "text": "And then they will come back after they have adopted a constitution to adopt a permanent representative government.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042872", "text": "And those who are opposed to democracy and freedom are desperately trying to stop this transition.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000042873", "text": "The military immediately began moving assets to the region to support delivery of humanitarian aid and to assess what the needs were.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042874", "text": "We want our military and our USAID officials who are in the areas focused on getting relief to those who need it.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042875", "text": "We are fighting a different kind of war, as you have heard us talk about.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042876", "text": "The war on terrorism is a war that continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042877", "text": "But this is a war on terrorism that continues and we will continue to wage it on all fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042878", "text": "I said that we are at war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042879", "text": "And the war on terrorism continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042880", "text": "We are disappointed that Russia went ahead with the auction of the Yukos subsidiary.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000042881", "text": "This goes back to the security for the military who is fighting in Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042882", "text": "The efforts in Iraq are critical to winning the war on terrorism, as the President talked about yesterday.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042883", "text": "Scott, a number of members of the military have called for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042884", "text": "The Secretary is also overseeing the transformation of the military, so that we are better prepared to confront the threats that we face in the 21st century.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042885", "text": "We are a nation at war and we are a nation that is going through a military transformation.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042886", "text": "We are a nation at war, and that's why it's important that we keep our -- that we make sure we meet our priorities --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042887", "text": "And we are engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042888", "text": "The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency is in Iran to evaluate the nuclear programs that they are engaged in.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042889", "text": "And part of that is openness and transparency and fighting corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000042890", "text": "Another part of it is fighting terrorism, and putting in place a unified security structure to protect the Palestinian people.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042891", "text": "In the past, Mr. Annan criticized the U.S. on the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042892", "text": "In terms of the issue of the oil-for-food program, I think we've made our views very clear, that it needs to be a full investigation and a transparent investigation.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000042893", "text": "In terms of the Ukraine, I think we've made our views very well-known.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000042894", "text": "But current guidelines state that this can be an effective drug to stop the transmission to children from pregnant mothers, and that's where it stands right now.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000042895", "text": "This is a critical part of winning the war on terrorism, and when a free and peaceful Iraq emerges, it will be a significant blow to their ambitions.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042896", "text": "Iran and Syria have made commitments and we expect those commitments to be followed.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042897", "text": "We've been concerned about Syria being a base of operations for some former regime elements that continue to seek to return to the past.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042898", "text": "We've expressed concerns about terrorists in Iran , as well.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042899", "text": "During a time when we are in the middle of the war on terrorism, he has helped us make great progress to dismantle and disrupt the terrorist networks across the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042900", "text": "He has provided strong leadership in liberating Afghanistan and Iraq from oppression and tyranny.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042901", "text": "The President meets frequently with members of our military, and he visits with them.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042902", "text": "We are in a time of war and it's important that we make sure our troops have what they need to complete their mission.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042903", "text": "It's a drug that is approved for use here in the United States.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000042904", "text": "I just pointed out that it's a drug that's approved for use in the United States.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000042905", "text": "We want to see action by Iran on the agreement that they reached.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042906", "text": "But Secretary Ridge did not submit his letter of resignation until more recently, and the offer was not made to Commissioner Kerik until just recently.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042907", "text": "And the war on terrorism is the President's top priority, and we are going to stay on the offensive because that's the best way to win it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042908", "text": "We're fighting a different kind of war and we face an enemy like we have never faced before.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042909", "text": "We can disagree on the war on terrorism, but I want to make my points, too.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042910", "text": "When NATO has a mission, it's important for everybody to be supportive of that mission.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042911", "text": "But in any mission related to NATO, we think it's important for all countries that are members of NATO to be supportive of those efforts.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042912", "text": "All agree or NATO does not follow.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042913", "text": "The President opposes raising the rate of the payroll tax flat out.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000042914", "text": "And also, some woman in Afghanistan -- they were protesting here.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042915", "text": "On Afghanistan, it was an historic moment earlier this week in Afghanistan when President Karzai took the oath of office as a freely elected leader.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042916", "text": "And it is a significant change from where Afghanistan was just a few years ago when it was ruled by the Taliban in an oppressive -- an oppressive regime that provided a safe haven for terrorists like al Qaeda.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042917", "text": "We remain a nation at war on terrorism and intelligence is our first line of defense.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042918", "text": "MR I think they just touched on relations with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042919", "text": "We've made it very clear that Iran needs to play a constructive and helpful role in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042920", "text": "One, right after meeting President Bush in the White House in the Oval Office, General Musharraf told CNN that it was -- he joins Mr. Kofi Annan of the U.N. criticizing the U.S. war on Iraq.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042921", "text": "He calls him friend and helping the U.S. war on terror, and now he's --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042922", "text": "We've made our views very clear to Iran, as well as others.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042923", "text": "Scott, you say you expect Syria and Iran to abide by the agreement from Sharm el-Sheikh.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042924", "text": "We've had sanctions against Iran since 1979; it hasn't done any good in controlling their behavior.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042925", "text": "We've just put in sanctions against Syria; it's not having any effect.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042926", "text": "That's one part of winning the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042927", "text": "But the President, first and foremost, will thank the members of our military, men and women, who have served and sacrificed to make the world a safer and better place.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042928", "text": "It's important that we win this war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042929", "text": "And second, U.S. stand or U.S. interest in the U.N. -- in whole -- where do we stand, as far as corruption at the highest level --", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042930", "text": "And our men and women in the military are serving and sacrificing to make the reality of a safer and better world come true.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042931", "text": "Scott, the administration has been talking to Iran and laying out in very clear language that they need to suspend all enrichment activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042932", "text": "And they elected a representative government under a constitution that they had approved previously.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000042933", "text": "But I think the military has spoken to the level of violence, and I would look at what they have said.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042934", "text": "I'll leave that to the military to talk about, in terms of what the latest assessment is on the ground.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042935", "text": "Going back to your question, Iran may be a member to the -- or be a party to the NPT, but let's look at their history.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042936", "text": "We are also working with these countries to wage a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000042937", "text": "Well, again, we work very closely together in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042938", "text": "And we have long said that noncompliance by Iran , which they've shown over time, is an issue that should be looked at by the United Nations Security Council.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042939", "text": "The President thinks it's important to end terrorism in the region.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042940", "text": "Kofi Annan, in September, he said that the war in Iraq is an illegal war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042941", "text": "In the last few days, Canadian government -- Canadian Ambassador to the U.N., had some kind of resolution on Iran that there is a concern about human rights situation in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042942", "text": "And it is important that Iran now move forward on implementation of the agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042943", "text": "Ken certainly has boundless energy and a solid commitment to continue growing Republican majorities.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000042944", "text": "In his letter of resignation, Energy Secretary Abraham said that one of the accomplishments achieved by the administration was implementing 90 percent of the President's energy plan --", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000042945", "text": "I would say that we should always view war as a last resort.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042946", "text": "I'm sure they'll discuss the war on terrorism, and discuss the situation in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042947", "text": "We remain in contact with Syria about our concerns about the border.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000042948", "text": "What we have made clear is that Iran needs to fully comply with its international commitments.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042949", "text": "Johns Hopkins, in its public health -- last month estimated that the war in Iraq resulted in 100, 000 Iraqi deaths.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042950", "text": "India Globe has always supported on his stand on fighting this terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042951", "text": "No, Goyal, the war -- the war on terrorism continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042952", "text": "We see that the war on terrorism continues when you see those horrific and barbaric acts that occurred in places like Russia.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042953", "text": "This a global war on terrorism that we are waging.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042954", "text": "We are continuing to wage this war on terrorism on two fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042955", "text": "The first and foremost is how we lead in the war on terrorism, and that's where this debate should be focused.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042956", "text": "The other one is, the U.N. today is discussing about Taiwan membership in the U.N. and it's likely to be turned down.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042957", "text": "MR Well, we are working closely with Saudi Arabia on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042958", "text": "Well, in the -- you talked about in the war on terrorism, there's always more that we can do in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042959", "text": "We are continuing to wage the war on terrorism on many fronts, both abroad and at home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042960", "text": "When we came into office, we had the September 11th attacks, we had the corporate scandal, we had the lead-up to the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042961", "text": "The international community is confronting Iran, because of the leadership that this President has provided.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042962", "text": "There's always more to do in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042963", "text": "We are engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042964", "text": "But the threat from terrorism was building for more than a decade.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000042965", "text": "What this President has done since September 11th is engage in a broad war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042966", "text": "We are fighting that war on many fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042967", "text": "I think we are being tough with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042968", "text": "The international community recognizes the importance of getting Iran to stop its pursuit of nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042969", "text": "We've also called on Iran to turn over those al Qaeda leaders that are in their country to their country of origin.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042970", "text": "At the same time the U.N. is passing a resolution to make sure Israel can't defend herself, it's stonewalling the investigation into the corruption with the U.N. Oil for Food scandal.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000042971", "text": "And my question is, is the administration going to increase the pressure on the U.N. -- to the -- I'll see if there's any update to the status of the investigation.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042972", "text": "We are a nation at war, engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042973", "text": "If we fail in Iraq it will embolden the enemy, it will give them a victory in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042974", "text": "The Secretary has also been leading a transformation of the military, to make sure that we're better prepared to meet the threats of the 21st century.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042975", "text": "If this President wanted to go to war with another country, at any time in the near future, is the U.S. military physically and financially --", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000042976", "text": "We've been confronting the threat from Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042977", "text": "We've spoken out about the need for Iran to stop harboring and supporting terrorists, namely Hezbollah.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042978", "text": "And we've also talked about the importance of Iran ending its pursuit of nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042979", "text": "There are also concerns that we have about Iran, and we've been pursuing those concerns.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042980", "text": "That's why we are pressing Iran to turn over those al Qaeda members in their country to their country of origin.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000042981", "text": "Congresswoman Corrine Brown has joined 10 other Democrats in asking the U.N. to monitor our elections on November the 2nd.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000042982", "text": "We certainly have worked together in the war on terrorism in a number of areas.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042983", "text": "NATO just recently made a strong commitment to help Iraqi security forces in their training.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042984", "text": "And NATO has made a strong commitment there.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042985", "text": "But beyond housing issues, beyond education, many African Americans say the real civil rights issues, the teeth of civil rights issues is injustice in the Justice Department.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000042986", "text": "This President has made a strong commitment to combating this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000042987", "text": "This President will continue waging the war on terrorism on the offensive.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042988", "text": "And when I talk about the war on terrorism, I'm talking about how this is fought on many different fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042989", "text": "Remember, this war on terrorism continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042990", "text": "Scott, you say you're making progress against the war on terrorism and you're arresting members of al Qaeda.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042991", "text": "They declared war on us September 11th when they killed some 3, 000 innocent American men and women, and children even.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042992", "text": "And we will continue waging the war on terrorism, on the offensive, to defeat the terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042993", "text": "We are engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042994", "text": "That war on terrorism continues, and we appreciate all those who have signed up voluntarily to be a part of our military and be a part of making America more secure for future generations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000042995", "text": "NATO has made it a commitment, as you saw earlier this week, to help with those efforts at the request of Prime Minister Allawi.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042996", "text": "In terms of the specifics related to NATO, those are discussions that NATO is now having since the agreement was just reached earlier this week.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042997", "text": "And, obviously, I think NATO will move forward as quickly as they can in those discussions.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000042998", "text": "But we are going to be there to support Afghanistan and help them move forward on the electoral process.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000042999", "text": "This is a broad war on terrorism, and we're fighting it on many fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043000", "text": "As I pointed out, it is a broad war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043001", "text": "Saudi Arabia is cracking down on terrorism and going after those most-wanted leaders of al Qaeda within their own country.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043002", "text": "We are a nation at war and the President does have the right to detain enemy combatants during this time of conflict and to hold them during that conflict.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043003", "text": "And so we will move forward in waging this war and we will also move forward on addressing the concerns of the court.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043004", "text": "We remain at war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043005", "text": "And that was the commitment that NATO made at the summit in Istanbul.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043006", "text": "They also made a strong commitment in Afghanistan, and certainly France has played an important role in Afghanistan, as well.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043007", "text": "One, on September 11th, 2001, the terrorists -- well, the terrorists had declared war on us even prior to that date when they carried out their attacks across the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043008", "text": "But we also, as we take the fight to them, need to address the root causes of terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043009", "text": "We are engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043010", "text": "The President's highest priorities are winning the war on terrorism, which we talked about at the beginning, and strengthening our economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043011", "text": "We are a nation at war, a nation at war against terrorism, and we're making great progress.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043012", "text": "And there are many in our military who are part of that war on terrorism, and we are forever grateful for the service and sacrifice that they are making, and we're forever grateful for the service and sacrifice of their families, as well.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043013", "text": "MR David, as we wage this war on terrorism, it's important that we gather intelligence.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000043014", "text": "But we are continuing the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043015", "text": "Our actions, as we wage this global war on terrorism, are governed by laws.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043016", "text": "They discussed the war on terrorism, and the progress being made on the President's five-point plan for transitioning to a democratically elected representative government in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043017", "text": "And as you heard from the President, a free and peaceful Iraq is critical to winning the war on terrorism and transforming a dangerous part of the world, which will make the world a safer and better place, and America more secure.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043018", "text": "After the war you said that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043019", "text": "Yes, in September, after the war you made it clear.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043020", "text": "As you know, the President's critics have said this was a war of choice.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043021", "text": "In his meeting today, the President reiterated America's ongoing commitment to Afghanistan and the political and civil transformation underway there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043022", "text": "President Karzai of Afghanistan says he and his people are adamantly opposed to drugs in his country, and that he and the U.S. plan to get rid of them.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043023", "text": "And in terms of China, we have made some progress with China on a number of different areas.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043024", "text": "This is a different kind of war that we are engaged in, against a deadly and dangerous enemy, an enemy that is lethal, an enemy that is sophisticated.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043025", "text": "The two leaders also discussed the possible role NATO may play in Iraq's future.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043026", "text": "The two leaders discussed Gabonese and African support for the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043027", "text": "We remain at war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043028", "text": "That is why we will continue waging the war on terrorism abroad while ramping up our efforts here at home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043029", "text": "And the best way to win that war is to go after the terrorists where they are, and bring them to justice before they can carry out their attacks.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043030", "text": "Scott, in the past, the President, has criticized John Kerry for saying that fighting terrorism was more of an intelligence-gathering, law enforcement operation than a military one.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043031", "text": "He's saying that the war on terror is fought on many fronts, but the best way to win the war on terrorism is to take the fight to the enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043032", "text": "But the war on terrorism, the President has said from very early on, is fought on many fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043033", "text": "But that's why I said the war on terrorism is fought on multiple fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043034", "text": "That's the way you win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043035", "text": "Well, my response is that the war on terrorism has resulted in the liberation of 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the protection of their rights.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043036", "text": "So the war on terror has helped protect human rights for some 50 million people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043037", "text": "And despite that, the President has made it clear that he expects our military to treat them humanely and consistent with the Geneva Accords.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043038", "text": "We carry out this kind of cooperation in Afghanistan, on a daily basis with the government in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043039", "text": "MR Yes, part of a war on terrorism, preventing attacks from happening in the first place.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043040", "text": "MR John, the war on terrorism is fought on many different fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043041", "text": "And it's also part of that war on terrorism, is making sure we're protecting the homeland.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043042", "text": "And, certainly, when you are pursuing a strategy that is helping people transition from years of oppression to democracy, it's important to have flexibility within that strategy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043043", "text": "And, obviously, his highest and most important priorities are winning the war on terrorism, of which Iraq is a central front, protecting the homeland and strengthening our economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043044", "text": "And it's important that North Korea continue to hear that message.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043045", "text": "In the Oval they also discussed the war on terrorism and the importance of staying on the offensive and taking the fight to the enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043046", "text": "Second question, how -- what comments do you have -- China is supposed to be a member of the U.N. Security Council, a -- that they should follow the rules and regulations.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043047", "text": "A free and peaceful Iraq is in our nation's interest; it's critical to winning the war on terrorism; and it will help transform a dangerous region in the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043048", "text": "That room was full of energy and enthusiasm and a lot of support for the initiatives and policies that we're pursuing for the American people.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000043049", "text": "I would say that we are a nation at war and we are also a nation of laws.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043050", "text": "A free and peaceful Iraq is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043051", "text": "And those actions at Abu Ghraib do not represent the United States military or their actions that they carry out on a daily basis to -- acts of kindness and decency and compassion in helping the Iraqi people.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043052", "text": "It does not represent our United States military, and it does not represent the United States of America.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043053", "text": "And the military has worked to address some of the issues that they raised.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043054", "text": "We want to see Syria make more progress on these areas.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043055", "text": "The actions of a few do not represent our United States military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043056", "text": "Second question, a lot of legislators, senators, congressmen in the Democratic Party are asking for Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000043057", "text": "What we are working to achieve in Iraq is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043058", "text": "They discussed the war on terrorism and the importance of reaching out to the Muslim world to help in the war against terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043059", "text": "Advancing freedom and democracy is key to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043060", "text": "A free and peaceful Iraq is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043061", "text": "We have concerns about the border along the Iraq-Syria border, and their ability to control those borders and who's crossing those borders.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000043062", "text": "And we've expressed those concerns to Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043063", "text": "Now, Libya supported terrorism all of the 25, 30 years, and now U.S. has opened doors for him as far as economy, trade and business is concerned.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043064", "text": "The best way to win the war on terrorism is to go after the terrorists and bring them to justice, before they can carry out their attacks.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043065", "text": "We didn't go in to win the war on terrorism when we invaded Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043066", "text": "MR A free and peaceful Iraq -- this is a broad war on terrorism that we are undertaking.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043067", "text": "Word from China is North Korea is willing to give up its nuclear weapons and stop making more for a price.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043068", "text": "And that's why we're working together with China and South Korea and Japan and others to bring about a peaceful resolution.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043069", "text": "But we are waging a broad war on terrorism to make America safer and more secure and to make the world a better place.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043070", "text": "And the executive board includes South Korea, Japan, the European Union and the United States.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043071", "text": "In a debate presided over by Cardinal Law of Boston, whom the Times identified as the leader at the center of the abuse scandal, even as abuse victims are calling for his resignation.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000043072", "text": "I think the President mentioned earlier that the war on terrorism -- that we are making tremendous progress in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043073", "text": "We are winning the war on terrorism, but that war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043074", "text": "One, the President must be enjoying high ratings still although the war is going on in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043075", "text": "And one of those steps is obviously moving forward on expanding trade, because expanding trade and opening up markets to American products and workers and producers and farmers is important to creating jobs here at home.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043076", "text": "The National Council of Resistance of Iran is saying that the Iranian regime is instigating much of the riots and the insurgency in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043077", "text": "This is central to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043078", "text": "As I said, this is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043079", "text": "The United States military and coalition forces go out of their way to make sure that civilians are not targeted and not killed.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043080", "text": "Scott, the U.N. does not seem very anxious to getting further involved in Iraq, nor does NATO.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043081", "text": "This is about winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043082", "text": "And at that point in September, all our focus was on Afghanistan and removing the Taliban regime from power and taking away the safe harbor for al Qaeda that existed in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043083", "text": "The war on terrorism is the number one priority, and this Act provides authorities with important tools to prevent attacks from happening in the first place.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043084", "text": "We are in a global war on terrorism, and we must confront threats before it's too late.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043085", "text": "And September 11th is a day that terrorists declared war on the United States of America.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043086", "text": "And the war is exactly what they got, as the President points out.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043087", "text": "And this President's commitment is to make sure we win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043088", "text": "But hadn't al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, personally, already declared war on the United States in a Fatwa in 1998, in acts of war against our embassies in Africa, and against a U.S. Naval vessel.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043089", "text": "Certainly there is a recognition that the threat from terrorism cannot just be continued to be addressed through law enforcement or through launching a few cruise missiles.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043090", "text": "And as you know, cracking down on terrorist financing is an important front in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043091", "text": "We work closely with them in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043092", "text": "Women who consent to an abortion -- this is allowed --", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000043093", "text": "Our view is that trade and opening markets is very important to creating jobs here at home.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043094", "text": "Free trade is vital to continuing our economic growth.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043095", "text": "What I'm saying is that free trade -- and those that would support economic isolationism put us at a competitive disadvantage.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043096", "text": "The priority in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks was on Afghanistan, and going after the Taliban and al Qaeda, and bringing those individuals who were involved in terrorism to justice.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043097", "text": "These Central and East European democracies have already acted as allies through their strong solidarity and actions in the war on terrorism, and in helping to strengthen peace and democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043098", "text": "As NATO acts to face these new challenges of the 21st century, the membership of these seven nations in NATO will advance the cause of freedom and strengthen the Atlantic Alliance, the central pillar of transatlantic relations.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043099", "text": "The last six months have led to an increase in employment in America.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000043100", "text": "We are fighting the war on terrorism on many fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043101", "text": "The way to win the war on terrorism is to stay on the offensive.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043102", "text": "Do you think this -- Saddam Hussein is in jail, and do we know that his people are not free from his regime --", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000043103", "text": "That helps go to the root causes of terrorism and address the needs of the people in those regions, and the aspirations of those people.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043104", "text": "Improving the infrastructure is also important to bringing about more stability in Iraq.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000043105", "text": "And the President has made the war on terrorism his number one priority because this is about protecting the American people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043106", "text": "And we will continue to wage this war on many fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043107", "text": "But the war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043108", "text": "One, we are working to wage the war on terrorism on the offensive, but we have also taken unprecedented steps here at home to protect the homeland.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000043109", "text": "Our troops are defending our freedoms in the war on terrorism, and they're helping to make the world a safer place and to make America more secure.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043110", "text": "We must continue to stand together and wage this war until it is won.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043111", "text": "General Abizaid, our commander at Central Command, provided an update on the broader war on terrorism and talked about the long struggle that we're engaged in against an extremist ideology, and the progress we're making.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043112", "text": "We call on the regime in Iran to respect the religious freedom of all its minorities, and to ensure that these minorities are free to practice their religious beliefs without discrimination or fear.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043113", "text": "We are fighting this war on a number of fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043114", "text": "This is a global war on terrorism and we must continue to take the fight to the terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043115", "text": "We will continue to pursue this war on terrorism and bring those terrorists to justice before they can carry out their attacks.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043116", "text": "We must continue to stand together and wage this war on the offensive.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043117", "text": "That will be very important to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043118", "text": "We also believe that the U.N. can play -- can continue to play a very vital role in the future for the Iraqi people.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043119", "text": "The central front in the war on terror is Iraq, according to this President.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043120", "text": "And countries are contributing in many different ways in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043121", "text": "And advancing freedom and democracy is a key component of winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043122", "text": "We want the U.N. to continue to play a vital role in the future.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043123", "text": "Well, anyone who thinks that we are not at war only needs to look back to last Thursday, because that was a grim reminder that we are at war against terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043124", "text": "And you cannot be intimidated in the face of terrorism, you must stand strong and show resolve and determination and take the fight to those terrorists.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043125", "text": "And the highest and most important challenge that we face together is the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043126", "text": "Terrorists declared war on the United States of America on September 11, 2001.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043127", "text": "We're confronting the threat of terrorism in a number of different ways.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043128", "text": "And so this war is being fought on a number of different fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043129", "text": "I think the President has made the war on terrorism his highest priority for quite some time now, David.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043130", "text": "Scott, by linking the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism constantly, is there any --", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043131", "text": "We are continuing to move forward on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043132", "text": "We're working together to fight terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043133", "text": "Certainly, the threat from terrorism did not happen overnight.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043134", "text": "Terrorists declared war on September 11th, when they carried out those horrific and tragic attacks on September 11th.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043135", "text": "The President is leading a global war on terrorism by taking the offensive and taking the fight to the enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043136", "text": "The war on terrorism is being fought on many fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043137", "text": "And one way of doing that is expanding trade, but making sure that we have a level playing field.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043138", "text": "MR what we're doing with other nations to fight corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000043139", "text": "This President is strongly committed to fighting corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000043140", "text": "Well, certainly, ending corruption and promoting democracy and advancing economic progress is an important priority for this administration and the Western Hemisphere.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043141", "text": "The Pakistan government has been a strong partner in the global war on terrorism, and we have worked closely with them in the global war on terrorism, and in efforts to stop proliferation.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043142", "text": "But make no mistake about it, Saddam Hussein's regime was a danger before the war, and everything that we've learned since the war only reconfirms that he was a danger.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043143", "text": "Many persons are saying that the United States government promotes democracy all around the world, but when it came to Haiti, we just walked away.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043144", "text": "MR We are supporting democracy, and we are supporting the constitutional process in Haiti by the actions that we're taking.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043145", "text": "Democracy is taking root in Iraq, and this is a major step forward for the Iraqi people.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000043146", "text": "Free trade is an important part of strengthening our economy and expanding job growth here at home.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043147", "text": "And that includes in our discussions with China, as well, and including in our discussions with regard to Hong Kong and supporting democratic efforts there.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043148", "text": "And secondly, The Washington Post report about the CIA practice in the Reagan administration against Russia, is the practice about exporting flawed technology for intelligence purposes --", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000043149", "text": "Well, one of the things that was called for in the transitional law, one of the fundamental elements of that law would be freedom of religion.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000043150", "text": "These tapes coming up now, are we still living under the threat of terrorism and are you raising the level of the threat --", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043151", "text": "Absolutely, the war on terrorism continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043152", "text": "The President has made the economy and winning the war on terrorism our highest priorities.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043153", "text": "So, basically, the cultural war came to his doorstep, rather than him going out --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043154", "text": "The President certainly talked about the war on terrorism and the progress we're making.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043155", "text": "Trying to put this in broader context -- the campaign thus far has been about job creation; it's been about the war in Iraq, the intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043156", "text": "But the two biggest priorities before this country are winning the war on terrorism and strengthening our economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043157", "text": "The war does continue and it requires continued strong leadership to confront these dangers.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043158", "text": "The war on terrorism is not going to be won overnight.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043159", "text": "And we will continue to pursue this war as long as it takes to win it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043160", "text": "John, I think that's all part of our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043161", "text": "The two biggest priorities continue to be winning the war on terrorism, and strengthening our economy even more.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043162", "text": "And this is -- going back to Steve's question about transferring sovereignty, democracy is not always easy, but the benefits are many.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043163", "text": "The war on terrorism continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043164", "text": "And obviously, we have made significant progress in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043165", "text": "And those priorities -- at the top of those priorities are strengthening our economy and winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043166", "text": "We have always stated our belief that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon program under the cover of pursuing nuclear power for peaceful reasons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043167", "text": "But again, we have serious concerns about reports that Iran is enriching uranium and possesses advanced centrifuge designs.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043168", "text": "We support efforts to fight corruption and root out corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000043169", "text": "The highest priorities for this country are winning the war on terrorism, protecting the homeland, and bringing about greater prosperity in this country for the American people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043170", "text": "One important aspect of that is promoting free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043171", "text": "The tone of our diplomats regarding trade with China has gotten blunt -- much more blunt in recent months.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043172", "text": "But he's also committed to fair trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043173", "text": "And there are some steps that China is committed to.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043174", "text": "Democracy is about compromise and negotiation, and that's what's taking place right now.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000043175", "text": "In the past, the United States has tried to curtail investment in Iran's oil industry, and apparently the U.S. did ask Japan not to go ahead with this deal.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000043176", "text": "The Tunisian government has been cooperating with the administration in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043177", "text": "The government has talked about the need to bring democracy to the Middle East.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043178", "text": "With the revelation that A.Q. Khan was conducting a rather extensive trading business in nuclear secrets, technology, et cetera, we know that North Korea has interest in things like that.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043179", "text": "What we have learned since the war only reconfirms that he was a grave and gathering threat, even before the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043180", "text": "And they are a strong partner in the global war on terrorism, and we will continue to work closely with them on a number of fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043181", "text": "The situation there is deteriorating rapidly, a civil war is going on.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043182", "text": "You were talking about Turkey requesting aid from NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043183", "text": "And -- smooth segue here -- speaking of Move On and Win Without War, yesterday they had a full-page ad in The Washington Post calling for the censure of the President over the Iraq intelligence matter.", "issue": "War"}
{"id": "0000043184", "text": "Obviously, NATO was playing an important role in Afghanistan, and they have talked about expanding that role.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043185", "text": "But as you pointed out, the war -- he will also talk about the broader war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043186", "text": "And this war on terrorism will be won on the offensive.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043187", "text": "The U.N. has played a vital role in Iraq, and we look forward to the United Nations continuing -- or to play a vital role in the future.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043188", "text": "The two leaders also discussed the good progress in Afghanistan, the welcome dialogue between India and Pakistan, the progress toward a comprehensive peace in the Sudan, and they also discussed the Middle East, as well.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043189", "text": "And we defeated him in war --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043190", "text": "They opposed going to war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043191", "text": "First, Dr. Khan, the so-called father of the Pakistani bomb, is now saying that top leaders of the Pakistani army, including General Musharraf, were aware of his illegal transfer of expertise and nuclear weapons technology to Iran and Libya and elsewhere.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000043192", "text": "He's still fighting against terrorism around the globe.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043193", "text": "Well, the war on terrorism does continue.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043194", "text": "And that war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043195", "text": "This President is focused on winning the war on terrorism, protecting the homeland and creating an environment for even stronger job growth.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043196", "text": "We are now in the war on terrorism, and the war on terrorism is a different kind of war and it's going to be a long war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043197", "text": "But I would point out that we are working with Russia in a number of different ways in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043198", "text": "And so we're working together to fight the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043199", "text": "Then we can compare what we knew before the war with what we have learned since the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043200", "text": "Poland stands with America in the war on terrorism, including in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043201", "text": "It's important that we gather all the facts, then we can compare what we knew before the war with what we have learned from the Iraq Survey Group.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043202", "text": "Well, one, we continue to make great progress in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043203", "text": "But it is a war that continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043204", "text": "We are always advocating the importance of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043205", "text": "Both before the war and after the war, the President said he was confident those weapons would be found.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043206", "text": "I wasn't making the decision for war --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043207", "text": "It is a central front in the war on terrorism; it's important that we win because a free Iraq will help inspire reformers in the broader Middle East.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043208", "text": "The terrorists have made Iraq the central front in the war on terrorism, and they recognize how high the stakes are.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043209", "text": "The Iraqi people are still forming the habits of democracy, and they're learning how to compromise through politics rather than through violence.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043210", "text": "And she stressed the importance of Afghanistan finding a favorable resolution to this matter.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043211", "text": "Well, I think you should look at the Afghan constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000043212", "text": "It was a constitution that was widely praised for how forward-looking it was and the values that are enshrined in that constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000043213", "text": "And it's important for the government of Afghanistan to reaffirm the bedrock principles in that constitution, one of which is freedom of religion.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043214", "text": "Iran needs to stop supporting terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043215", "text": "Now, in the past, I recognize that Iran has said that they're going to try al Qaeda members in their custody.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043216", "text": "We expect Iran to live up to their international obligations in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043217", "text": "Well, as I pointed out, a number of countries have already approached Iran about turning over those al Qaeda members reportedly in custody so that they can pursue the indictments in their own country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043218", "text": "We have had a number of concerns about Iran relating to terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043219", "text": "We have concerns about Iran supporting terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043220", "text": "And that is, win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043221", "text": "Because, obviously, the President -- the highest priorities for the American people are winning the war on terrorism and protecting the homeland.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043222", "text": "We have to remember that we are at war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043223", "text": "And in terms of education, I would point out that we have provided significant increases to education, an historic level of funding for education and for the reforms that we're implementing.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000043224", "text": "The President is strongly committed to confronting the AIDS pandemic, and that's why he put forward his emergency relief plan.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000043225", "text": "So the U.N. was there helping to assist and play an important role.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043226", "text": "If you look back at the fact sheet, again, one of the important priorities was to continue to focus on strengthening democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043227", "text": "And certainly one important aspect of strengthening democracy is fighting corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000043228", "text": "And that's one reason expanding free trade is important.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043229", "text": "We've gone to -- we've made significant strides in improving our immigration infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000043230", "text": "We've gone to extraordinary steps to make our border more secure.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000043231", "text": "Scott, on the Middle East, recently the President of Syria said in an interview with an American newspaper that his government is ready to revive the negotiations with Israel.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043232", "text": "We, along with a number of our allies, have called on Iran to turn these terrorists over to the United States or to their countries of origin so that they will face justice for their terrorist activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043233", "text": "That's the war on terrorism, winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043234", "text": "We have expressed concerns about al Qaeda terrorists in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043235", "text": "And an integral part of our commitment to free trade is our commitment to enforcing our trade laws.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043236", "text": "And these have important issues for our agriculture -- the sanitary and phytosanitary standards.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000043237", "text": "Well, first of all, the United States is winning the war on terrorism with unrelenting focus and unprecedented cooperation.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043238", "text": "The President looks forward to discussing North Korea, the war on terrorism, proliferation and other issues, and global peace and stability.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043239", "text": "In terms of discussing things from the standpoint of China, I would let them discuss those issues and those specifics.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043240", "text": "We do appreciate the way that China has been responding to our concerns on trade.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043241", "text": "China has made strong public commitments of their resolve to crack down on intellectual property piracy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043242", "text": "China has publicly committed to maintaining an open and predictable market for U.S. agricultural exports.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043243", "text": "Scott, you say you oppose a unilateral movement toward democracy in Taiwan.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043244", "text": "Scott, in the last few days or few weeks, there have been statements from China threatening to attack Taiwan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043245", "text": "And we appreciate the fact that China has responded and reached out to us on this important issue.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043246", "text": "Now, any talks with Iran would be specifically for us to reiterate the concerns we have expressed about their activities in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043247", "text": "And we have repeatedly called on Iran to play a helpful role in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043248", "text": "We support the advance of democracy in Belarus.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043249", "text": "The terrorists have made Iraq the central front in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043250", "text": "While we are at war, it's important that we continue to fund our highest priorities and hold the line on spending elsewhere in the budget.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043251", "text": "MR And about the importance of working with the U.N. on a political solution, as well.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043252", "text": "But he also emphasized the importance of fighting terrorism and appreciates the steps that are being taken.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043253", "text": "We're winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043254", "text": "In the case of Canada, Canada contributed troops to Afghanistan, lost troops in Afghanistan in an accident by U.S. troops, which politically made it very difficult for them to contribute to Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043255", "text": "In the war on terrorism, there are a lot of countries participating in those efforts, and we appreciate that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043256", "text": "This administration has opted to engage China with the hopes that that would lead to improvements in those areas.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043257", "text": "France, Germany and Russia actively opposed the war in Iraq, and that's not exactly something you can take back, even diplomatically, perhaps.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043258", "text": "The United States military goes out of their way to make sure that that doesn't happen.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043259", "text": "The world must condemn terrorism and stand together against terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043260", "text": "Obviously, the highest priorities remain winning the war on terrorism and protecting Americans, making America safer.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043261", "text": "Terrorism has hit their own soil from members of al Qaeda.", "issue": "Terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043262", "text": "It was a coup by the United States of a democratically elected leader in Iran.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000043263", "text": "But the U.N. has an important role to play in the efforts going on there.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043264", "text": "The military, our military and coalition forces went to great lengths to remove this brutal regime while at the same time minimizing the loss of innocent civilian life.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043265", "text": "Not only does this drug cause a pharmacological abortion, making it available over the counter also undermines parental authority and promotes irresponsible behavior.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000043266", "text": "The President is a strong supporter of expanding trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043267", "text": "But the President is a strong supporter of expanding trade because he knows that American workers can compete with anyone globally.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043268", "text": "But the President is a strong believer in free trade, but he also believes that that trade must be fair.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043269", "text": "There are signs that our economy is strengthening; GDP growth is up, new orders for durable goods have increased, business investment is up, personal consumption remains positive.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000043270", "text": "We hope that North Korea is willing to agree to multilateral talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043271", "text": "And it's important -- it's important that China and Taiwan pursue a dialogue on how to resolve these issues.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043272", "text": "Well, again, I think that we work closely with China on a number of issues -- this being one, North Korea being another.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043273", "text": "North Korea did not keep their commitments over the past.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043274", "text": "That is why we are waging a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043275", "text": "Those three nations must join now to fight against terrorism because they are the victims.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043276", "text": "In terms of the specific troop elements, I mean, I think you need to talk to the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043277", "text": "If that's the fact, Scott, two days ago the Waco Tribune Herald had an editorial calling for the resignation of Vice President Cheney over this Niger hoax.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000043278", "text": "Obviously, it's important for our military to continue to get information from him that can be helpful to our overall efforts and helpful to helping bring about greater security in Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043279", "text": "Well, again, we think the U.N. certainly has a vital role to play in certain areas, in terms of the election process and the constitutional process.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043280", "text": "And it's a positive development that North Korea has agreed to this multilateral approach, that the bilateral approach that previously was pursued did not work.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043281", "text": "It's important to expand trade and open markets to American producers and American products.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043282", "text": "Scott, you said earlier, there could be some benefits accruing to North Korea from the international community.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043283", "text": "North Korea -- we have a lot of concerns with North Korea, in terms of proliferation, in terms of drug trafficking, in terms of their pursuit of nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043284", "text": "President Putin told Secretary Baker that Russia will work with us in a cooperative spirit of partnership and is prepared to join promptly in negotiations in the Paris Club in order to reach an agreement as soon as possible on debt relief for Iraq.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043285", "text": "The war on terrorism continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043286", "text": "We support Taiwan's democracy, as we do others around the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043287", "text": "But as the President said during those meetings, we oppose any unilateral decision by either China or Taiwan to change the status quo, for the reasons I stated at the beginning of my comments on this very issue.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043288", "text": "And one of the things that the National Security Strategy talks about is the importance of, as I said, fighting this war on many fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043289", "text": "I think the military said that this includes American and Iraqi forces.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043290", "text": "Those are decisions made by the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043291", "text": "We've expressed concerns about Iran on a number of issues that are separate and apart from the Iraq issue.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043292", "text": "You prevail in the war on terrorism by fighting this on many fronts and all fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043293", "text": "That's the best way to win the war on terrorism, is to stop them before they can carry out an attack in the first place.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043294", "text": "That's what we're doing in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043295", "text": "We are at war on terrorism, and this is a longstanding authority that the President of the United States has had in order to carry out his most solemn obligation, which is to protect the American people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043296", "text": "So there has been great success, but the war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043297", "text": "We must continue carrying out the war on terrorism and taking the fight to the enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043298", "text": "And we appreciate their close cooperation in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043299", "text": "And he is someone that believes in religious tolerance.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000043300", "text": "The U.N. has a very vital role to play in this process.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043301", "text": "But the efforts in Iraq are critical to winning the war on terrorism and we are continuing to make sure that all the resources necessary are dedicated to this effort.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043302", "text": "Helen, the U.N. has been playing a vital role in Iraq, and they will continue to.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043303", "text": "The U.N. is participating very closely with our coalition provisional authority in our efforts in Iraq.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043304", "text": "The U.N. will continue to have a vital role in Iraq as we move forward.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043305", "text": "The President will also continue to wage this war on terrorism and he will be relentless in our pursuit of terrorists, wherever they are.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043306", "text": "All countries made it very clear to North Korea that they support this policy.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043307", "text": "Now, Karzai government in Afghanistan is asking this administration to go back and help the -- that have been left.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043308", "text": "MR We continue to make progress in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043309", "text": "The Prime Minister and the Netherlands are a strong ally in the war on terrorism, and they discussed a number of important priorities when it comes to foreign policy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043310", "text": "And the President will talk about the importance of expanding trade, and the importance of free trade to America's prosperity and to our economic security.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043311", "text": "The U.N. taking a more political role in the supervising of elections and the standing up of a constitution in sovereign authority was also out there.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000043312", "text": "You have the U.N., the United Nations that is working closely with the coalition provisional authority in Iraq.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043313", "text": "MR let me go back to -- the U.N. has been playing a vital role in close coordination with coalition provisional authority.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043314", "text": "The U.N. has been playing a vital role.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043315", "text": "But you know a lot of the countries in Europe would ask as a price or political concession to be given more of a leeway in the political and economic sense.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000043316", "text": "Since they are going to retain the head of the military --", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043317", "text": "And if there was a discussion on India authority in the U.N., what sort of help President seek from --", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043318", "text": "MR winning the war on terrorism and strengthening our economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043319", "text": "So you have -- the U.N. has been playing a vital role under this resolution.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043320", "text": "The President's position on the embargo remains unchanged, he is strongly committed to it until there is freedom of elections and freedom of speech and freedom for political prisoners.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000043321", "text": "And we are making great progress in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043322", "text": "Well, on North Korea, I think we've made some significant progress in terms of the multilateral approach.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043323", "text": "We did dismantle the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043324", "text": "That's winning the war on terrorism, where we're making great progress, and strengthening our economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043325", "text": "It's important that we continue to expand trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043326", "text": "It's about winning the war on terrorism and better protecting the American people from future attacks.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043327", "text": "You need to make sure that the infrastructure is in place for those resources to be spent.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000043328", "text": "The U.N. has a vital role to play as we move forward in Iraq, and as we move forward toward a sovereign, free and democratic Iraq.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043329", "text": "The Department of the Army spokesman at the Pentagon said yesterday that retired Colonel David Hackworth is a heavily dedicated combat leader who is not regarded as undependable.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000043330", "text": "You're talking about compensation, and that's an issue for the board to address.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000043331", "text": "This specific issue is related to compensation.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000043332", "text": "But our military is on the offensive, going after them, taking the battle to them.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043333", "text": "We are going after the war on terrorism in a number of different ways.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043334", "text": "The President is committing to -- committed to winning the war on terrorism abroad, which this is part of, and it's central to, the highest priority for the American people, the long-term safety and security of America.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043335", "text": "One, we are still living under the threat of terrorism and we're getting so many letters now again from Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043336", "text": "Well, in terms of the war on terrorism, we have made significant progress.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043337", "text": "Again, we have removed the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043338", "text": "It is a war that will take -- require patience and take time, but we will pursue it to the end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043339", "text": "But they are a close ally in the war on terrorism, working with us to go after those threats.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043340", "text": "Well, again, the determinations in terms of our military are always made by the commanders in the field.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043341", "text": "On June 24th of last year -- this is a two-part question -- the President said that Syria must choose the right side in the war on terror by closing terrorist camps and expelling terrorist organizations.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043342", "text": "They also discussed our close cooperation in the war on terrorism, Paraguay is a strong ally.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043343", "text": "A free, sovereign and democratic Iraq will help bring about peace and stability in a very volatile region -- that is the Middle East, that has been a breeding ground for terrorism, that has spawned terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043344", "text": "Scott, back to the Iraq package, which you have said several times now is critical to the war on terror and America's security.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043345", "text": "But, remember, we went to war in Iraq, and we accomplished it with great speed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043346", "text": "Three times, by my count, the past meetings between President Bush and President Putin, the issue of the weapon shipments to Iran of nuclear technology have come up, starting first nearly two years ago.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043347", "text": "And when we prevail in this front in Iraq, then we will have dealt a significant blow to the terrorists, and we would have made a significant -- we will make significant progress in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043348", "text": "An audiotape claims to be from the number two leader in the al Qaeda, says the U.S. war on terrorism is really a war against Islam.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043349", "text": "They discussed the war on terrorism and the importance of continuing to move forward on our plan for victory in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043350", "text": "And that executive order is aimed at preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation, and it has some very specific language in that executive order.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000043351", "text": "This is about -- Iraq has become the central front in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043352", "text": "The international community has made it clear that escalation by North Korea will only lead to further isolation.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043353", "text": "But the highest priority for the President is winning the war on terrorism abroad and at home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043354", "text": "And we will continue to wage this war until we have eliminated the threat of terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043355", "text": "The foundation for moving forward to the two-state vision -- the two states, Palestine and Israel, living side by side in peace and security, the foundation for that is the end of terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043356", "text": "That's why it's important to have trade that -- free trade, but fair trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043357", "text": "And everybody has a responsibility to fight terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043358", "text": "And very narrowly on Syria, did Israel inform the Bush administration that it was going to hit --", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043359", "text": "Israel is not ruling out another attack on Syria and hints that terrorism from Iran will not be tolerated.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043360", "text": "Well, I will respond in this way, that one, everybody needs to work to fight terrorism in the region, particularly the new Palestinian Prime Minister and cabinet.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043361", "text": "And one of the first and foremost responsibilities is to fight terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043362", "text": "And he will continue to wage this war on terror because of the importance that it has.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043363", "text": "This is about winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043364", "text": "They've been working very closely with us in the war on terrorism, and we appreciate the cooperation we are receiving.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043365", "text": "All parties have a responsibility to fight terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043366", "text": "We are in a global war on terrorism, with many nations across the world that are involved in that effort, and there are many different fronts in that effort.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043367", "text": "We have done that with the overall war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043368", "text": "And Secretary Snow recently went to China to take a very strong message to the Chinese government on that matter, in terms of their currency.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043369", "text": "The President continues to -- he's a strong believer in free trade, but there needs to be a level playing field.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043370", "text": "We are at war on terrorism, that war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043371", "text": "When we succeed, when we prevail in this central front on the war on terrorism, we will have dealt a significant blow to our enemies.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043372", "text": "MR I think the President's position on illegal drugs is well known, and his commitment to combating drug -- illegal drugs.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000043373", "text": "North Korea agreed to multilateral talks, six-country talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043374", "text": "North Korea did not abide by its commitments and obligations.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043375", "text": "But it's important that the institutions of democracy are in place, and that you have a functioning civil society in place before moving forward on those elections.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043376", "text": "Iraq has become the central front in the war on terrorism, and the world has a stake in what is going on in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043377", "text": "MR One, we have made it very clear to Iran that they need to turn over to the country of origin, or the United States, any al Qaeda members that are in the country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043378", "text": "And for the first time this veteran of the Vietnam War has said it feels similar to him.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000043379", "text": "It's continuing to grow, this is after coming out of a recession and the attacks of September 11th, the corporate scandals and the lead-up, obviously, to the war with Iraq.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000043380", "text": "The war on terrorism is about cold-blooded killers who have no regard for innocent life.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043381", "text": "The meeting this morning with the Secretary of Defense there and two top generals certainly had the look of a council of war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043382", "text": "Iran is refusing to turn over intelligence about the al Qaeda members it has to the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043383", "text": "There are still serious concerns we have with Iran and they need to address.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043384", "text": "In terms of Iran, we welcome the efforts by the British, by the Germans and by the French last week to get a commitment from Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043385", "text": "Our military is staying on the offensive, going after the holdouts of the former regime and the foreign terrorists who are in the country.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043386", "text": "Yes, and I think the military has been addressing that in their briefings.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043387", "text": "But those are decisions -- in terms of the use of resources, those are decisions that we rely on the military to make.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043388", "text": "There's some concern that the price of a Medicare bill will go above the $400 billion the President has recommended.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000043389", "text": "Iraq is central to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043390", "text": "There's a new book out by Bernard Trainor and by Mike Gordon of The New York Times, where they've looked at the actual combat phase of the war -- the President says that's been over for a long time now.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043391", "text": "Secondly, in terms of looking back and talking about what actions were taken during the lead-up to the war and after the war -- and we've talked repeatedly about that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043392", "text": "But anytime you're engaged in a war you have to be able to adapt and adjust to circumstances on the ground.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043393", "text": "Flexibility is key to prevailing in the war on terrorism, and victory in Iraq is critical to our overall efforts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043394", "text": "Of course we support the advance of democracy, wherever it is taking place.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043395", "text": "The two leaders also discussed the importance of free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043396", "text": "Both leaders expressed their commitment to free trade and moving forward on the Doha talks.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043397", "text": "Partial birth abortion is an abhorrent procedure, and the President believes it's an important step toward building a culture of life in America and making America a more welcoming society.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000043398", "text": "And he strongly has supported banning partial birth abortion because of the brutal procedure that it is.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000043399", "text": "The foundation for doing so is combating terrorism and a commitment by a new Palestinian prime minister and cabinet committed to fighting terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043400", "text": "MR One, he has talked about the importance of spreading democracy and freedom across the world ever since he took office and before.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043401", "text": "MR Keep in mind, the President has talked about that free trade is an important engine of economic growth, and it's one of the cornerstones of his economic agenda.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043402", "text": "And we will make sure that they have the technology and the equipment and all their needs to succeed.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000043403", "text": "And this war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043404", "text": "And the President will do everything it takes to win the war on terror and protect the American people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043405", "text": "So we will spend what is necessary to win the war and protect the American -- the lives of Americans here at home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043406", "text": "The war on terror continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043407", "text": "And the President's highest priority is winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043408", "text": "We've made great progress, but the war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043409", "text": "Do you think the free trade of the Americas will be a fact in 2005, year 2005, or without Brazil it's impossible to get it --", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043410", "text": "Well, we outlined -- the justification for the war was clear in all the Security Council resolutions that were passed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043411", "text": "But the war on terrorism -- we continue to carry out the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043412", "text": "The President's highest priorities will always be winning the war on terrorism, protecting the American people, and getting our economy growing stronger and faster.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043413", "text": "And we had a war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043414", "text": "But the men and women in our military who are over there are involved in a very important cause.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043415", "text": "Scott, talking about Hong Kong, the people of Hong Kong are now crying for democracy and demonstrations are going on in the hundreds of thousands every day.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043416", "text": "This thing he told the country on the verge of taking the nation to war has turned out to be, and by your own acknowledgement, not reliable.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043417", "text": "Scott, Russia is calling for a new U.N. resolution to help stabilize Iraq, given that U.S. forces are under attack.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043418", "text": "When it comes to counter-terrorism and threats against Americans or American interest --", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043419", "text": "And then the other question centers on, the President has said that war between India and Pakistan is clearly not in either nation's interest.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043420", "text": "Obviously, the President's highest priority is winning the war on terrorism, and protecting Americans from future attacks.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043421", "text": "There's no higher priority than fighting terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043422", "text": "The governing council, some of the representatives from the Iraqi governing council were at the U.N. earlier today and there's been a meeting going on.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043423", "text": "We are also addressing that issue in North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043424", "text": "And we're moving forward to advance in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043425", "text": "We are prevailing in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043426", "text": "It's a long war and much continues to be done.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043427", "text": "The new transaction that was put before the committee, the review process that is for that is moving forward and it's headed toward the 45-day investigation.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000043428", "text": "And the international community has sent a very clear message to Iran, the regime in Iran, that we are not going to allow you to develop nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043429", "text": "The Europeans have put forward a significant proposal with Russia that would allow the regime to -- or allow the Iranian people to realize the benefits of peaceful nuclear energy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043430", "text": "The regime in Iran has continued to defy the international community instead of join with the international community and work in a cooperative way.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043431", "text": "He is opposed to abortion laws that forbid it for rape and incest -- Les, look at the President --", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000043432", "text": "Our position on North Korea has been made very clear, as well.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043433", "text": "Now with that said, the military is also going through a transformation, led by Secretary Rumsfeld and commanders at the Pentagon.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043434", "text": "Scott, the United Arab Emirates may be a valued ally in the war on terrorism, but they do not recognize Israel, and they abide by the Arab boycott of Israeli goods.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043435", "text": "Iran -- the regime in Iran continues to make provocative statements and take provocative actions that only further isolate it from the rest of the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043436", "text": "The regime in Iran has shown that they can't be trusted.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043437", "text": "MR I'll let our military speak to our commitment in terms of specific troops within Afghanistan.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043438", "text": "The President was pleased to travel to Afghanistan just last week.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043439", "text": "This is a comprehensive war on terrorism that we're engaged in and this tool helps us to connect the dots and save lives.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043440", "text": "This was a transaction that was closely scrutinized by national security experts who are involved in these decisions and by our intelligence community.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000043441", "text": "Now in this process, for this transaction, the committee also reached out to the Department of Transportation and Department of Energy to get their expertise and their views on national security issues, as well.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000043442", "text": "The state legislature of South Dakota has just passed a new law which allows abortion in case of threat to the mother's life, but denies it to all ages in cases of rape and incest.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000043443", "text": "And partnerships and relationships are key to winning the war on terrorism because this is a global threat that we face.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043444", "text": "I mean, partnerships are critical in the war on terrorism, and certainly partnerships from Middle Eastern countries like the United Arab Emirates are important in the broader war on terrorism and meeting our important foreign policy objectives.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043445", "text": "This transaction was closely scrutinized to make sure that there were no national security threats.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000043446", "text": "This President has made his number one priority winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043447", "text": "Partnerships are key to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043448", "text": "MR April, you'd have to ask those who oppose this transaction what their reason is for opposing this.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000043449", "text": "This transaction was very closely scrutinized to make sure that all national security concerns were met.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000043450", "text": "The top and only concern when it came to this transaction was the safety and security of the American people.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000043451", "text": "Our military goes out of their way to represent the best of America and our values.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043452", "text": "It is critical in a time of war that you are able to surveill the enemy, and that's what this is about.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043453", "text": "Scott, Secretary Rice is calling on the international community to pressure Iran into giving up its nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043454", "text": "We strongly support freedom of religion.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000043455", "text": "And we've made those views very clear to China in discussions we have with them.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043456", "text": "First of all, I think you need to check with the military to get the specific facts.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043457", "text": "The regime in Iran has shown that it cannot be trusted.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043458", "text": "And it's not about the right to nuclear energy, it's a matter of trust -- and Iran has to show the world that they can be trusted, the regime in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043459", "text": "If they continue in that direction, the regime would only further isolate Iran from the rest of the international community, and undermine the aspirations of the Iranian people.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043460", "text": "The regime in Iran knows what it needs to do.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043461", "text": "We do not believe the regime in Iran should have the ability or the technology to produce nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043462", "text": "We remain engaged in an ongoing war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043463", "text": "We are winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043464", "text": "Enemy surveillance is critical in winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043465", "text": "You -- this is supposed to be a war on terrorism, and by his own admission, the President has said there's been -- there was no link between Iraq and terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043466", "text": "He talked about the importance of freedom overcoming terrorism and tyranny and the power of freedom to prevail.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043467", "text": "The international community recognizes that terrorism is a threat to us all, and we're working together on a real-time basis to share information and act on that intelligence.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043468", "text": "Well, I haven't seen what the regime in Iran has said.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043469", "text": "We do remain a nation at war and surveillance of the enemy is critical to waging and winning war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043470", "text": "Enemy surveillance is critical to waging and winning war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043471", "text": "How does President feel about is he dictator, or how does President feel about the President of Iran, why he was not among the dictators, but Chinese were there, Pakistan was there.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043472", "text": "We are winning this war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043473", "text": "It is an unconventional war that we are fighting, as I talked about.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043474", "text": "Well, we remain engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043475", "text": "We have to fight the war abroad, we have to fight it here at home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043476", "text": "It's an important tool in the war on terrorism, and it's helped to disrupt plots and prevent attacks.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043477", "text": "The election, as we talked about the other day, had much more to do with fighting corruption and responding to the needs of the people.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000043478", "text": "We are engaged in a war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043479", "text": "Democracy leads to peace.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000043480", "text": "Democracy leads to peaceful, responsible government.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000043481", "text": "And democracy leads to government that is responsive.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043482", "text": "We are a nation at war, and there is an enemy that is deadly and determined to strike us again and inflict even greater damage.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043483", "text": "You mentioned General Hayden -- well, General Hayden made it clear that this kind of surveillance has been going on under his authority, because he had the authority to do that.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000043484", "text": "We continue to urge North Korea to get back to the talks as soon as possible.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043485", "text": "So we urge North Korea to come back to the talks as soon as possible without pre-condition so that we can move forward on the principles that we agreed to.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043486", "text": "And we are a nation at war, and the courts have upheld the President's authority to engage in surveillance.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043487", "text": "Surveillance is critical to prevailing in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043488", "text": "Pakistan is a valued ally in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043489", "text": "Well, they actually had a discussion about -- they were talking about the issue of winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043490", "text": "We believe very strongly that Iran needs to be -- the regime in Iran and its behavior needs to be referred to the United Nations Security Council.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043491", "text": "Well, democracy is taking root in Afghanistan and we've worked very closely with the government in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043492", "text": "The terrorists started this war, and the President made it clear that we will end it at a time and place of our choosing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043493", "text": "And we will continue to take the fight to the enemy, we will continue to support the advance of democracy in the broader Middle East.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043494", "text": "Some people take a narrow view of the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043495", "text": "Pakistan is a valued ally in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043496", "text": "As I indicated, President Musharraf and Pakistan are a key ally in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043497", "text": "Well, all of us can do more in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043498", "text": "We will continue to pursue this war until we win -- and we will win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043499", "text": "And I think the military has already commented on the individuals that you're bringing up.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043500", "text": "The regime in Syria has failed to comply with several Security Council resolutions.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043501", "text": "Shawkat, as Syria's chief of military intelligence, has directly contributed to Syria's support for terrorism, including the insurgency in Iraq, Palestinian terrorist groups given shelter in Damascus, and Hezbollah and other terrorist groups in Lebanon.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043502", "text": "And so the Europeans, who were negotiating in good faith with the regime in Iran, are now looking to refer the matter to the Security Council, and we support those efforts very strongly.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043503", "text": "We expect action from the regime in Iran, and the only action they have shown has run contrary to the demands of the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043504", "text": "The regime in Iran has shown that it can't be trusted.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043505", "text": "We have already expressed our support for the efforts of Russia to help address some of these issues and to provide an objective guarantee that would be in place.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043506", "text": "This is about the trust -- this is about trust in the regime in Iran, and they have shown that they cannot be trusted by their actions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043507", "text": "In the war on terrorism, gathering intelligence is critical.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043508", "text": "Russia and China say they do not favor U.N. sanctions on Iran, but they prefer a return to the talks.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043509", "text": "Our military has been playing an important role in that.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043510", "text": "Well, as I said, first of all, Pakistan is a valued ally in the war on terrorism and we work very closely with Pakistan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043511", "text": "We are engaged in a war on terrorism against a deadly and determined enemy, an enemy that continues to target innocent civilians.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043512", "text": "Well, maybe he has a misunderstanding of the kind of war that we're engaged in.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043513", "text": "Iraq is the central front in the war on terrorism, and that's why it's so critical that we continue moving forward on our strategy for victory.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043514", "text": "Scott, on Iran -- the U.S. administration is considering to impose oil sanctions or oil embargo to Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043515", "text": "We remain engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043516", "text": "We are trying to urge Iran to abide by its agreements and get back to negotiations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043517", "text": "MR Well, I think the President has made it pretty clear, he said previously Iran is not Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043518", "text": "One, NATO has decided that they will withdraw their forces or relieve ones from the areas of Pakistan.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043519", "text": "And that means the commitment to free and open elections, the commitment to the rule of law, fighting corruption -- those are efforts that we have been working very closely with other countries in the hemisphere on to move forward.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000043520", "text": "And NATO has committed to play a role, and is playing a role, when it comes to the training situation of Iraqi security forces.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043521", "text": "The people in Iran want to live in greater freedom, and we support their desire to live in greater freedom.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043522", "text": "It's time for Iran to come into compliance, to abide by the agreements they made, and to meet the demands of the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043523", "text": "The regime in Iran continues to move in the wrong direction of the rest of the Middle East.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043524", "text": "One, in the past month or so, President has been making a number of encouraging statements on war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043525", "text": "The original war on terrorism started from al Qaeda in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043526", "text": "And we work closely with the government of Afghanistan and others in the region to pursue those terrorists.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043527", "text": "And we expect North Korea to move forward on the principles that they agreed to at the last round of talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043528", "text": "He'll talk about how education is key to closing the wage gap, and that higher education levels mean higher incomes for American workers.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000043529", "text": "And that's the nature of the war we're engaged in.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043530", "text": "The actions and statements that the regime is making only serve to further isolate the regime in Iran from the rest of the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043531", "text": "Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt has gone without food for two weeks in his protesting of the Navy's ordering him not to mention Jesus in public prayer.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000043532", "text": "Well, the President believes strongly in the free exercise of religion.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000043533", "text": "Well, I've expressed our views on the alternative minimum tax, and we've also talked about our commitment to tax reform, as well.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000043534", "text": "MR I disagree strongly with your characterization of our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043535", "text": "We are making great progress on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043536", "text": "This involves intelligence activities relating to the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043537", "text": "Again, I emphasize, the most important communications to us in the war on terrorism, as General Hayden said, our Deputy Director of National Intelligence, former head of the National Security Agency, are communications involving al Qaeda.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043538", "text": "Scott, last week, the President said that U.S. is not threat to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043539", "text": "As we engage in this war on terrorism, we must also be mindful of protecting people's civil liberties.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043540", "text": "We've made our views very clear, that Iran needs to abide by the Paris agreement and its international obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043541", "text": "All five parties to the talks have made it very clear to North Korea that they need to abandon their nuclear weapons ambitions, and dismantle their programs.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043542", "text": "The other parties to the talks have made clear to North Korea that they expect North Korea to make good on the agreed to statement, and to give up its nuclear weapons and programs promptly and verifiably.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043543", "text": "Our relationship will be based on their commitment to democracy and the principles that we hold dear in this hemisphere, not only the United States, but many other countries.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043544", "text": "We also recognize during this time of war a heavy burden falls on their families.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043545", "text": "We have made important progress in the war on terrorism, but it continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043546", "text": "We must continue to fight and win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043547", "text": "And the enemy is sophisticated, it is lethal, it uses new technology to adapt and adjust.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000043548", "text": "The President has publicly acknowledged that we went to war under false information, mistaken information.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043549", "text": "MR Well, we've got a lot of technology that we can use to target the enemy without going after -- without collateral damage of civilians.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000043550", "text": "Intelligence is vital to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043551", "text": "Intelligence is vital to winning any war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043552", "text": "We stated our concerns about the regime in Iran, and how they've denied people the right to have greater freedoms.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043553", "text": "And there's a constitution that's in place that requires a two-thirds vote on forming the leadership of the new government.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000043554", "text": "We are sitting here talking about waging the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043555", "text": "Well, we remain engaged in an ongoing war on terrorism, and it's critical that we all work together to do everything within our power and within our laws to protect our citizens.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043556", "text": "Scott, the President, for the first time in my recollection, took responsibility for taking the nation to war on faulty intelligence.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043557", "text": "We can support democracy -- and military means is not the only way to support the advance of democracy; there are other ways, too.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043558", "text": "And we remain a country at war and the President will continue talking about it in great detail as we go forward.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043559", "text": "We're going to continue talking about the war on terrorism and our strategy for winning in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043560", "text": "We are a nation at war, so the President is going to continue focusing on our plan for succeeding in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043561", "text": "It is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043562", "text": "I think the families of the military understand the importance of what we're working to achieve.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043563", "text": "The Patriot Act is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043564", "text": "They had a good discussion about the war on terrorism and the nature of the enemy that we face, and the war that we're engaged in.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043565", "text": "Then that government formed, moved forward on drafting a constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000043566", "text": "In a time of war, it's important to talk to the American people and make sure they have a clear understanding of our strategy for succeeding.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043567", "text": "Well, in terms of updates, our military and I think our State Department provides regular updates.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043568", "text": "Well, one of the points the President emphasized about a young democracy -- and this applies to young democracies around the world -- is that it faces problems.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043569", "text": "They're learning the importance of cracking down on corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000043570", "text": "That is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043571", "text": "And during this time of war, the President believes it's important to talk to the American people about the different aspects of that strategy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043572", "text": "And another topic, in India, today on the -- the topic, is that winning war on terrorism, and most Indians support President Bush as the war on terrorism is concerned.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043573", "text": "In terms of the war on terrorism, we have a very close partner in both those countries as we move forward to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043574", "text": "This is a global war on terrorism, and we work cooperatively with many nations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043575", "text": "But what this is about is how we conduct the war on terrorism, how we protect our people, our citizens.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043576", "text": "We need to prevail in this war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043577", "text": "The Middle East had become a dangerous breeding ground for terrorism, and what we're working to do is bring some hope and opportunity to the region.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043578", "text": "We are continuing to support the people of Afghanistan as they move forward.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043579", "text": "But we work very closely with him in the war on terrorism, and we appreciate his leadership, and we appreciate his ideas.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043580", "text": "He believes in free trade, open markets and fair trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043581", "text": "And so we leave the timing up to the military so that they can address those concerns and issues before making announcements public.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043582", "text": "But what I will talk about is the war on terrorism that we're engaged in.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043583", "text": "We're sitting here talking about the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043584", "text": "We're all engaged in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043585", "text": "Well, yes, but you frame it as a war on terror, and it's about much more than that, as he, himself, said.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043586", "text": "Well, in a time of war there are always going to be difficulties.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043587", "text": "And what's important in a time of war is that you're able to adapt and adjust to circumstances on the ground.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043588", "text": "Scott, certainly there are some rules that the military could involve themselves in with information operations.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043589", "text": "MR I think the military --", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043590", "text": "The President talks about the war on terrorism in many different formats, but he is the Commander-in-Chief, we are a nation at war, and no one has more invested in this war than our men and women in uniform.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043591", "text": "And there are many partners in that global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043592", "text": "But as we carry out the war on terrorism, we act in a way that is consistent with our laws and consistent with our values and consistent with our international obligations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043593", "text": "Iraq is central to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043594", "text": "And I think when you're in a war, you have to be flexible and be able to adapt to conditions on the ground.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043595", "text": "We will prevail in this central front in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043596", "text": "It is critical to prevailing in the broader war on terrorism and transforming a dangerous region of the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043597", "text": "But what's important is when you're at war, is that it's important to learn from your experiences and be able to adapt in order to prevail.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043598", "text": "No one has more invested in the global war on terrorism and what we're working to achieve in Iraq than our military and their families.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043599", "text": "And he has been talking about the war on terrorism regularly for some time now.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043600", "text": "The war on terrorism is our highest priority; Iraq is the central front; and we're going to continue to talk to the American people about the strategy that we have in place.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043601", "text": "In terms of the windfall tax -- windfall profits tax, I think that we previously expressed our views.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000043602", "text": "All the parties to the six-party talks believe it's important for North Korea to end all its nuclear weapons programs, dismantle those programs, and do so in a verifiable way.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043603", "text": "I think each abortion is the result of a series of errors.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000043604", "text": "And then President Carter also said, quote, I've never been convinced that Jesus Christ would approve abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000043605", "text": "South Korean government doesn't mention anything about those conditions in North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043606", "text": "China -- don't have the right to hear about this, or -- I think he talked about the importance of human rights in those interviews.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043607", "text": "We are engaged in a global war against Islamic radicals who are intent on spreading a hateful ideology, and intent on killing innocent men, women and children.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043608", "text": "Well, they're a good partner in the global war on terrorism, and they have been pursuing individuals who seek to do harm to their citizens.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043609", "text": "Now, as part of the national strategy that was released just a short time ago, the military has been directed to look at ways that they can support the state and local communities in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043610", "text": "And we will prevail in this war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043611", "text": "We don't know what strain of virus might eventually lead to a possible outbreak, but it's something we need to take seriously.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000043612", "text": "And President Hu has been visiting North Korea over the weekend and talking to Kim Jong-il about the importance of the six-party talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043613", "text": "We remain in a -- we remain engaged in a global war on terrorism, and Iraq is the central front in that war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043614", "text": "In terms of any support you're talking about from military, I think those are questions you need to direct to Northern Command.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043615", "text": "And this is one large concern we have with Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043616", "text": "But four years ago, or just over four years ago, war was brought to our shores.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043617", "text": "This nation remains engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043618", "text": "It is a war against Islamic radicals who seek to spread their hateful and murderous ideology.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043619", "text": "We will prevail in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043620", "text": "He talked about the broader war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043621", "text": "This was done during the Vietnam war to give the impression the U.S. forces were winning.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043622", "text": "What we want to see is behavioral change from the regime in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043623", "text": "Well, first of all, I think you need to talk to the military, because the military --", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043624", "text": "Whatever the facts of this particular situation are, war is an inexact business, and children do get killed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043625", "text": "And we're engaged in a global war on terrorism, with many partners, and we're fighting it on many fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043626", "text": "Also because of India's work in the IAEA against Iran, Iran canceled the pipeline agreement with India.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043627", "text": "In terms of terrorism, I think you've heard the President talk about that recently in a number of speeches.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043628", "text": "We remain engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043629", "text": "We do have concerns about Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043630", "text": "We make it very clear to Syria what they need to do.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043631", "text": "Housing is a priority right now, getting people out of shelters and into housing.", "issue": "Housing"}
{"id": "0000043632", "text": "Well, you have a very different view of the war on terrorism, and I'm sure you're opposed to the broader war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043633", "text": "Well, she certainly expressed her concerns about Afghanistan and Iraq and going into those two countries.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043634", "text": "But in terms of issues beyond that, I think the military -- our intelligence community talked about how this was information obtained from Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043635", "text": "You all want to focus on side issues like religion.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000043636", "text": "In terms of talking about his religion -- I think it's well-known that he is a person of faith, as well.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000043637", "text": "A judge should make decisions based on our constitution and our laws.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000043638", "text": "This is part of democracy, and the Iraqi leaders are the ones who are making the decisions.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043639", "text": "It is a war that is difficult, but it is a war we are winning and it is a war that we will win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043640", "text": "Yesterday, President also warned Iran supporting terrorism in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043641", "text": "Iran is a country that has a long history of supporting terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043642", "text": "We also want -- so temporary housing is a priority for the administration right now; also moving ahead on longer-term housing.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000043643", "text": "Secondly, in references to Syria and Iran, you have talked before about Syria and expressed a lot of concern about their support.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043644", "text": "But in the Iranian case, if I understood the administration's position correctly, we had not before heard the President himself describe Iran as an ally of convenience with al Qaeda forces, many of whom are not, obviously, Shiite forces.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043645", "text": "They continue to be a state sponsor of terrorism, they continue to move in the wrong direction.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043646", "text": "Scott, the President said in his speech that the war will take more sacrifice, time and resolve.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043647", "text": "And she'll be talking about the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043648", "text": "The fog of war is clearing, and it gives us an opportunity to get a better sense of the facts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043649", "text": "In a war you always have to adapt to circumstances on the ground.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043650", "text": "Iraq is central to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043651", "text": "Now, yesterday General Musharraf supported Iran, as far as having a nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043652", "text": "When it comes to Iran, it's a matter of trust and confidence within the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043653", "text": "The military is the one organization that has the capability to quickly deploy large amounts of resources and assets to help stabilize a situation in the event of a major catastrophe.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043654", "text": "It is a war that is -- that continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043655", "text": "He will talk about why education will continue to be important to them over the course of their careers.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000043656", "text": "We are engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043657", "text": "When you're engaged in a war, it makes people anxious about the future.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043658", "text": "We are working very closely with Russia on a number of security and economic issues, issues of mutual importance.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043659", "text": "Well, what we are doing at this point is urging North Korea to get back to the six-party talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043660", "text": "North Korea is the one that needs to make the decision now.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043661", "text": "We've worked closely with Pakistan in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043662", "text": "They represent the best of our military and I'm proud to call them friends -- all those, those that are currently serving and those that served before them.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043663", "text": "One of the issues that you've heard the President talk about is the role of the United States military in responding to catastrophic storms or catastrophic natural disasters.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043664", "text": "One of the issues that came up in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was the role of the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043665", "text": "Scott, a while ago President spoke on the war against terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043666", "text": "And this is a war that we remain engaged in.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043667", "text": "Scott, Iran is still talking tough, threatening to resume its nuclear program if the issues -- the United Nations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043668", "text": "And the President made clear that the infrastructure is going to be costly.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000043669", "text": "Well, we have very good cooperation in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043670", "text": "In terms of Iran, we both share a commitment to making sure that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043671", "text": "We urge Iran to return to the negotiations as soon as possible and live up to the agreement they made with the Europeans.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043672", "text": "We are in a global war on terrorism, and the President is going to see it through.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043673", "text": "The war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043674", "text": "The war continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043675", "text": "Former Secretary Powell, Colin Powell says that his presentation to the U.N. -- which was obviously full of falsehoods about Iraq's arsenal -- is a blot on his career.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043676", "text": "This includes food, water and medicine; it includes addressing the public health threats that are faced.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000043677", "text": "And it's incumbent upon the government of Iran to answer those questions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043678", "text": "Well, check it out, he has three instances in there of the military being hostile to journalists.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043679", "text": "The military is making the decisions about the -- in consultation with the President.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043680", "text": "I think the military is the one.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043681", "text": "It can fight the war on terror, it can do operations in Iraq, and aid and comfort people in Louisiana.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043682", "text": "The National Guard are dispatched by the military, but they're under the authority of the state adjutant generals who are under the authorities of the government.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043683", "text": "I think that the military talked about that a little bit yesterday.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043684", "text": "We -- one of our concerns when it comes to the economy, of course, is the shortage of gas.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000043685", "text": "Scott, you said on energy, you're not ruling things out.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000043686", "text": "One, on the issue of abortion, the President has made it very clear that there are ways -- common sense, practical ways that we can work together to reduce the number of abortions in America.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000043687", "text": "Both are strongly committed to advancing the tremendous possibilities of science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000043688", "text": "We are now fighting the war on terrorism on the offensive by taking the fight to the terrorists overseas, so that we don't have to fight them here on our own shores.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043689", "text": "The two leaders discussed Iran and agreed on the importance of finding a diplomatic solution to the nuclear issue.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043690", "text": "Scott, the Vice President said today that Russia has unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of her people, and he warns that its actions could risk damaging ties with the United States and Europe.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043691", "text": "We're engaged in a different kind of war, and we've talked about how the enemy that we face is sophisticated and lethal and determined.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043692", "text": "We are winning this war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043693", "text": "Would you think that losing the war on terror would be worse than --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043694", "text": "The top priority of this President is winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043695", "text": "North Korea, I will remind you, violated the '94 agreed framework.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043696", "text": "Two, in terms of Iran, Iran made some commitments to suspend their uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043697", "text": "And we have made it very clear that Iran has a history of hiding their nuclear activities from the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043698", "text": "The President has made very clear that Islam is a religion that teaches peace, and it is a proud and great religion.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000043699", "text": "They're moving forward on drafting a constitution so that they can move forward on the election for the -- or the election to approve the constitution, and then elections later this year for a permanent representative government.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000043700", "text": "But Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, and the administrations at those -- at that time, addressed those issues.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043701", "text": "He talked about education and the results that we're seeing from the reforms that we passed under the No Child Left Behind Act.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000043702", "text": "It is a great religion, as the President has said before, and it's important to remind people of that.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000043703", "text": "In terms of the human rights situation in North Korea, the President has made our views very clear.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043704", "text": "And North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to abandon their nuclear ambitions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043705", "text": "We've made substantial progress to prevail in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043706", "text": "And I think that in terms of North Korea, Assistant Secretary Hill has reported back that it was a very businesslike exchange of information focused on the way forward.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043707", "text": "North Korea has indicated that they want to see a nuclear-free peninsula and that they are committed to making progress toward that goal in the six-party talks next week.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043708", "text": "North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to abandon its nuclear ambitions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043709", "text": "Scott, the President talked about the war on terrorism -- Elaine.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043710", "text": "The President today talked about the war on terrorism and made remarks about how the ideologies are different.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043711", "text": "This is a war that is fought on multiple fronts, the diplomatic, the law enforcement, the intelligence, the military.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043712", "text": "We remain at war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043713", "text": "Apparently, China still has time to up its bid for Unocal, even though the Unocal board of directors says it wants to accept Chevron's new bid.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043714", "text": "The threats we see from terrorism are not coming to an end, nor should the provisions and tools that the Patriot Act provides our law enforcement and intelligence personnel.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043715", "text": "Is the President opposed to contraception.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000043716", "text": "North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to abandon their nuclear ambitions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043717", "text": "And it's important that North Korea come prepared to move forward in a substantive and serious way on that proposal.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043718", "text": "Scott, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Doug Feith, who's leaving, in a long interview with The Washington Post implied criticism of the way the war in Iraq was and is conducted.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043719", "text": "And in terms of the decisions that were made, I would say that war is difficult and it is tough.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043720", "text": "There needs to be an objective guarantee from Iran to make sure that they are not developing nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043721", "text": "And we are all sending a very clear message to Iran about the importance of having an objective guarantee, and we appreciate the efforts of our European friends as they move forward on the negotiations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043722", "text": "The terrorists have made Iraq a central front in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043723", "text": "We are working closely with India in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043724", "text": "We're working closely with Pakistan in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043725", "text": "Well, I think the military has talked -- spoken to that recently, and they've talked about their tours of duty.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043726", "text": "MR North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to abandon its nuclear ambitions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043727", "text": "The President recognizes that this is not a limited war on terror, this is not just related to Afghanistan and the Taliban; this is about an ideological struggle, and that's the kind of battle that we are waging.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043728", "text": "The best way to win the war on terrorism is to stay on the offensive, and the ultimate path to victory is spreading freedom, because freedom -- or free societies are peaceful societies.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043729", "text": "We are waging a comprehensive war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043730", "text": "And that's something our military is always looking at -- what are the various contingencies, and how do we meet our commitments and complete the mission.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043731", "text": "Well, first of all, we are pleased that North Korea is coming back to the talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043732", "text": "It's important for North Korea to return to the talks prepared to talk in a serious way about how to move forward on that proposal.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043733", "text": "In the discussions recently with North Korea, they have expressed a commitment to a denuclearized peninsula and making progress toward that goal.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043734", "text": "Now North Korea is committed to coming back to the talks with a date certain.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043735", "text": "The ratification of the constitution signals major progress towards that goal.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000043736", "text": "But some significant Sunni forces supported the constitution, and that was progress.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000043737", "text": "And we had considerable success, beginning with Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043738", "text": "I should make clear, from the outset, that we do not know whether the bird virus that we are seeing overseas will ever become human -- a human virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000043739", "text": "And we cannot predict whether a human virus will lead to a pandemic.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000043740", "text": "While the federal government has many responsibilities here, we cannot forget that a pandemic occurs because of the spread of the virus from one person to another.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000043741", "text": "Minimizing the opportunities for the virus to mutate, and helping other nations to prepare should a pandemic virus emerge is a global responsibility, and is also the first line of defense for the United States.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000043742", "text": "If the H5N1 avian bird flu virus appears in birds, it will not signify the start of a human pandemic, and will not necessarily represent a threat to our domestic poultry population.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000043743", "text": "There's no question, if there were a severe pandemic, there would be activities and actions required by the federal government across not just in Health and Human Services, but across the federal government.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000043744", "text": "Obviously, the United States government has, based on science, created a planning assumption, a worst-case scenario.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000043745", "text": "So housing is a high priority and one that is actually ongoing, that we're working with.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000043746", "text": "I imagine they'll be talking about the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043747", "text": "And now Afghanistan is the focus, especially the FATA area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, as far as terrorism and the U.S. interest is concerned.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043748", "text": "Obviously terrorism has struck significant blows in both of those countries, and it's up to us to remain vigilant in confronting terror.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043749", "text": "Meanwhile, you encourage them to talk to Iran, which you consider a state sponsor of terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043750", "text": "We have -- as the President has made clear, we have contacts through the P5-plus-1 procedures; we have contact with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043751", "text": "Well, we have long expressed our concerns about the role that Iran is playing in Iraq, whether it's funding Militias, whether it's training militias, supplying weaponry to them.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043752", "text": "There have been some reports that you may be -- the U.S. in general may be close to a deal with North Korea to finalize dismantling their nuclear reactor, any stockpile they may have.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043753", "text": "This was NATO with the same , because NATO has been criticized that they are not doing enough for -- as far as blocking terrorism and Taliban coming back to Afghanistan.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043754", "text": "We have a very important relationship with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043755", "text": "But the point about how trade not only supports growth and opportunity and is the best poverty reduction program around, but it's part of building democracy and rule of law.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043756", "text": "Today, we heard a lot about the importance of trade creating jobs.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043757", "text": "And last month, the House passed Resolution 188, orders China to stop persecution of Falun Gong group and to improve China's human rights record.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043758", "text": "But our belief is that trade is part of the wind of change of bringing openness and freedom.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043759", "text": "And so the key thing about this is that one of the things that NAFTA created is not just trade, it's creating a unified North American market.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043760", "text": "The results of that kind of investment will be seen in the quarters and, in fact, in the years ahead.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000043761", "text": "The President's been very clear that he doesn't think right now is the right time to press China on currency manipulation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043762", "text": "But the discussions between the President and Prime Minister go way beyond issues of trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043763", "text": "This week we will also reaffirm our commitment to clean energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000043764", "text": "Instead of preaching about clean energy, this administration will act on it.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000043765", "text": "The people who say the science is settled, it's done -- if you don't believe that you're a skeptic, a Luddite.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000043766", "text": "Energy was the major discussion of issues and also, of course, pending civil nuclear energy between the U.S. and India.", "issue": "Energy"}
{"id": "0000043767", "text": "Energy is going to play a very, very important role in that.", "issue": "Energy"}
{"id": "0000043768", "text": "And the President's scientific advisor, as well as the leadership at the national labs, as well as leadership in the private sector, help us determine which technology has the greatest potential for immediate application to reduce the most pressing threat.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000043769", "text": "And the President's scientific advisor, as well as the leadership at the national labs, as well as leadership in the private sector, help us determine which technology has the greatest potential for immediate application to reduce the most pressing threat.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000043770", "text": "The President talked last night about corruption, talked about capable police forces, talked about judiciary and the rule of law.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000043771", "text": "He said that North Korea, if they continue their threats, will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043772", "text": "The concept of demand-driven education has been enthusiastically received by private industry, educational institutions, and state and local officials across the country.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000043773", "text": "On the final question, yes, obviously we wouldn't be going to China next Friday if we didn't think it was good for the American economy, good for American workers, and that the United States exports equal United States jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043774", "text": "They also emphasized their determination to fight terrorism and they reaffirmed that you cannot flirt with terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043775", "text": "The treaty also shows the world -- particularly states like Iran and North Korea -- that one of our top priorities is to strengthen the global non-proliferation regime and keep nuclear materials out of the wrong hands.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043776", "text": "And on Iraq, does the United States think NATO should increase its military or economic contribution to the Iraqi --", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043777", "text": "Well, NATO really doesn't make an economic contribution, but we think the European Union should and will.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043778", "text": "And the war followed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043779", "text": "And the U.N. has made it clear that they have principal responsibility for the humanitarian relief effort and the reconstruction effort, the nation-building part of this.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043780", "text": "At the same time, NATO was originally created for a political purpose, but also for a security purpose -- to defend the interests of the members of NATO, the charter members and those who have been added over the years.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043781", "text": "With respect to NATO's responsibilities to its own members, members of NATO, Article 5 collective security arrangements, those kinds of issues, then obviously Russia would not be included, nor would Russia wish to be included.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043782", "text": "And Russia finds this arrangement, the NATO-Russia Council, to serve its security interest, and its interest in becoming a more active member of the Euro-Atlantic community.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043783", "text": "But there is also no doubt that NATO will be inviting other nations to become members at the Prague summit, later this year.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043784", "text": "As we have said all along, and as we've discussed with the Russians quite candidly, Russia cannot have a veto over who becomes a member of NATO or not.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043785", "text": "Russia knows that these invitations will be extended at Prague and, nonetheless, Russia is here today to participate in the signing of the NATO-Russia Council.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043786", "text": "And so with those few introductory remarks, let me move on from Russia, just to say that we're looking forward to discussions with the French leaders tomorrow, and President Chirac.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043787", "text": "Anytime you have two armies that close to one another and this level of tension, there is the likelihood of an outbreak of hostilities; and when both are nuclear armed, that should cause us all concern.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000043788", "text": "Ukraine has recently expressed an interest in joining NATO at some point in the future.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043789", "text": "But we've always been willing to make this defensive technology available to others and cooperate with others, within reasons of -- within reason and with respect to certain classification issues, of course.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000043790", "text": "They have supported our efforts in Afghanistan, as the President noted yesterday.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043791", "text": "And at that point, the international community will have put forward its views of how this war can abate, and then we'll see who is for peace and who isn't.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043792", "text": "But, obviously, extremists in Hamas, Hezbollah, and their supporters in Syria and Iran do not want to see a resolution of these situations on the basis of 1559 and the road map, because then they would have no reason for violence.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043793", "text": "That's why I think ultimately North Korea will have no choice but to return to the talks and pursue denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043794", "text": "That's why we went to war in 1991, because he had a vision of a different kind of Middle East.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043795", "text": "And so when you have a particular deal with India that moves in a particular direction because of India's long history of protecting nuclear technology, you have that deal.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000043796", "text": "At every stop, Bush raised concerns about Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043797", "text": "Leaders raised concerns about Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043798", "text": "That's part of why you're seeing inflation and economic problems and daily criticism of Ahmadinejad about what he's doing to Iran.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000043799", "text": "The NATO allies also asked Russia to stop its criticism of the Alliance effort and to join in the cooperative efforts that have been offered to it by the United States.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043800", "text": "This President has seen nine new members come into NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043801", "text": "That brings, with the three that were admitted in '99, to the number 12 out of 26 of the members of NATO are actually members who were liberated after the Cold War.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043802", "text": "Most of the countries around the table would have been willing to extend MAP to Ukraine and Georgia today, but there were countries that had concerns.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043803", "text": "They made the argument that the future of Ukraine and Georgia is a vital security interest to them.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043804", "text": "A major move was the indication that France would provide about a battalion worth of forces that would go in -- that would be new to Afghanistan, that would go into the east.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043805", "text": "NATO has adopted a vision statement to explain the mission and the importance of the mission to their publics.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043806", "text": "We do it respectfully with China, but there is no doubt that this is a decision that is deeply disturbing to us, and we're communicating that to the Chinese authorities.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043807", "text": "But on the other hand, I don't think that there is any doubt that Syria and Iran have been very much in the opposite direction, encouraging and, indeed, in the case of Syria, sheltering the people who are perpetrating these acts.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043808", "text": "I will just note that Iran is a principal funder and supporter of Hezbollah.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043809", "text": "The President felt very strongly that coming here to China would be important to represent the economic interests of the United States, the economic interests of workers and farmers and entrepreneurs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043810", "text": "I think on other issues of trade, yes, they are moving forward, but I think it really was on intellectual property rights that I saw a difference.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043811", "text": "And there's no question but that China would have a ways to go to meet that test.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043812", "text": "We went to war in 1991 because he tried to annex his neighbor, Kuwait -- or, actually, annexed his neighbor, Kuwait.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043813", "text": "And we've long said that the issue is, as China transforms -- and clearly is transforming dramatically, economically -- that that kind of economic transformation usually brings some pressures for political change, as well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043814", "text": "You said, Dr. Rice, before coming to China, President Bush had said that he would raise Iran nuclear issues with President Hu.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043815", "text": "We were determined to see Afghanistan and Pakistan as a region, as two countries that were dependent upon each other, influenced each other, and needed to figure out a way forward together.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043816", "text": "I think you've heard many people say over the past several days, and it's true, this is the democratically elected Presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043817", "text": "It's what caused the President in Afghanistan to send more troops.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043818", "text": "At the request of the government of Pakistan's special support group, the U.S. military is providing water trucks, halal MREs, and large tents within environment units for hot weather.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043819", "text": "It has supporting infrastructure that is also of concern.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000043820", "text": "As you mentioned in your remarks, North Korea, in the past, has reneged on prior agreements that it's made with the U.S. government.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043821", "text": "North Korea has previously confirmed to us its willingness to denuclearize, and we are eager to see if those words prove sincere.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043822", "text": "So, last night, the President asked for Ambassador Bolton's resignation.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000043823", "text": "Sadly, the previous administration had opened up revenue streams for Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043824", "text": "And not even two weeks ago, President Rouhani of Iran admitted that our sanctions have cost Iran over $200 billion in lost foreign income and investment.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043825", "text": "And, Secretary Mnuchin, at that point you said, I think we've done more sanctions on Iran than anybody, and it's absolutely working.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043826", "text": "The China state companies are not buying oil from Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043827", "text": "And I would just say we are having conversations with China, as well with any other counterparty on sanctions evasion.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043828", "text": "President Trump called for China to give fair and reciprocal treatment to U.S. companies and exports to reduce the U.S. trade deficit and rebalance the economic relationship.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043829", "text": "We had a frank exchange here, in China, on maritime security issues and the South China Sea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043830", "text": "On behalf of the United States, I repeat our gratitude to China for hosting President Trump and our entire U.S. government delegation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043831", "text": "And a lot of businesses up along the China-North Korean border are shutting down as a result of the sanctions.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000043832", "text": "He said during the campaign that China was raping the economy and threatened to declare China a currency manipulator.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043833", "text": "And it's a bright line of what democracy, democratic values, allowing the will of the people to advance their lives under their own aspirations against what life under an autocratic dictator looks like.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043834", "text": "We have significant conversations underway with Russia on the situation in Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043835", "text": "Clearly, Russia has failed in its responsibility to deliver on that commitment from 2013.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043836", "text": "Secretary, if I could ask you to clarify Russia again -- you said no contacts were made with Russia before the strikes today.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043837", "text": "And you spoke of the future leadership of Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043838", "text": "And we have made this clear to everyone -- we've certainly made it clear in our discussions with Russia -- that we do not think Syria can achieve international recognition in the future.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043839", "text": "Even if they work through a successful political process, the international community simply is not going to accept a Syria led by the Assad regime.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043840", "text": "Russia does have economic activity with North Korea, but I would also hasten to add Russia's official policy is the same as ours -- a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043841", "text": "I think with respect to China, what our experience with China has been -- and I've said this to others -- it's been a bit uneven.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043842", "text": "China has taken significant action, and then I think for a lot of different reasons, they paused and didn't take additional action.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043843", "text": "We've continued to make that clear to China that we would prefer they take the action themselves.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043844", "text": "President Putin, I think, has expressed a view not unlike that of China, that they would support a freeze for freeze.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043845", "text": "If we study the history of the last 25 years of engagement with various regimes in North Korea, this has been done before.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043846", "text": "President Trump welcomed President Xi's invitation to visit China for a state visit at a future date.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043847", "text": "The Presidents' discussions -- President Trump and President Xi -- on North Korea were very wide-ranging, very comprehensive, and more focused entirely on both countries' previous commitments to denuclearize the peninsula.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043848", "text": "As to the discussions around human rights in China, I think America's values are quite clear and they really occupied a core of all of our discussions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043849", "text": "We will be announcing additional sanctions on Syria as part of our ongoing effort to stop this type of activity and emphasize how significant we view this.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043850", "text": "We talked about the trilateral agreement between Russia, the United States and Ukraine that was regarded by all hands as a positive development.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043851", "text": "North Korea -- there was a very preliminary discussion of North Korea in which views were exchanged and there was an agreement to stay in close touch on that.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043852", "text": "We expect that the efforts of Russia and the new independent states will be pursuant to international law and such international organizations as CSCE or the United Nations.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043853", "text": "An era of war is coming to an end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043854", "text": "That sense of isolation, that sense of discrimination is falling into the background, and I think that's bound to affect the environment.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000043855", "text": "Indeed, when they, I think, were able to conclude that this brought an end to the state of war, that opened up possibilities.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043856", "text": "The exclusion of this summit remarks commitment with democracy in this hemisphere.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043857", "text": "They also discussed North Korea, agreed that the situation there was serious, requires sustained efforts.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043858", "text": "And I think Korea is a graphic reminder of the importance of the President's thrust for democracy and free markets.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043859", "text": "As you know, one of the major figures -- running the politics of Japan in one of the last elections was a woman.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000043860", "text": "Well Russia certainly is a critical juncture, but I sense their commitment to reform is going right ahead.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043861", "text": "The summit Chairman's statement will reflect our consensus, together with Russia, in a number of key areas, beginning with our shared security challenges.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043862", "text": "The summit should also review Iran's record of terrorism and the backing of radical groups that seek to destroy and undermine the Middle East peace process.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043863", "text": "With respect to Iran, I think quite the opposite is true.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043864", "text": "Working constructively with Russia and the other new independent states is in the overwhelming interest of the United States.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043865", "text": "From the outset, President Clinton has pursued a policy of pragmatic engagement with Russia and the other new independent states.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043866", "text": "Any lasting relationship -- the President strongly believes any lasting relationship with Russia must be based upon a solid relationship with the Russian people, and that is the fundamental reason why he has decided to go to Russia for the commemoration for this important event.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043867", "text": "We will be making the point to Russia that it is their decision to make.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043868", "text": "And we hope that over time Russia will come to agree with us in this conclusion.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043869", "text": "As long as it continues this tragic struggle in Chechnya it will have, I think, adverse implications for Russia's democracy, as well as getting Russia a bad name in international circles.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043870", "text": "Last month I visited Ukraine and Russia for the purpose of, first of all, as a preparation for the summit meeting, but even more importantly, just part of our regular engagement with Russia on matters of security interest.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043871", "text": "I want to emphasize that we cooperate with Russia on security issues of mutual interest to both countries.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043872", "text": "For Russia and for the Ukraine, economic reform clearly lies at the heart of political reform, social reform, and all of the objectives that this administration is seeking to achieve.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043873", "text": "While we're in Russia we will also discuss tax policy and the legal foundations for private markets, both of which are critical for Russia's economy as it goes forward.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043874", "text": "I have said many times to Russian leaders that NATO poses no threat to Russia, and NATO does not see Russia as a threat to it.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043875", "text": "And the reason all 16 of the NATO members continue to participate in NATO is because they believe that zone of security and stability is important and they want to be a part of it.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043876", "text": "And, secondly, to form a security agreement with NATO, forming what could be, for example, a consultative commission which discusses security issues of mutual interest between NATO and Russia.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043877", "text": "I think we have a pragmatic engagement with Russia and the essence of that is to be able to discuss matters where we differ.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043878", "text": "There is great interest in Russia in developing capital markets, and we'll be working with them, providing technical assistance in capital markets.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043879", "text": "That the fuel be taken back to Russia -- apparently willing to concede that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043880", "text": "You said that you recognize that Russia has economic interests here and that's one of their motivations.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043881", "text": "The President pointed out that Ukraine has a very important strategic place, and its future will have a lot to do with the future of this entire region.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043882", "text": "Ukraine is a very important European power and we respect it as such.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043883", "text": "The economic team that traveled with President Clinton had two days of meetings in Russia with public and private sector figures, discussed a number of very important issues within the context of a very good, strong, ongoing working relationship.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043884", "text": "He also addressed the issue of relations with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043885", "text": "The difference has been very wide between what Ukraine says in what we need to provide in what we apparently are willing to do.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043886", "text": "On trade, the top priority was to complete the Uruguay Round of GATT.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043887", "text": "We've reaffirmed our commitment to integrate Russia and the States of Central and Eastern Europe, to the Western political and economic structures.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043888", "text": "To move on now to a different subject -- the nations of Eastern Europe making the difficult transition to free market democracy must be able to deliver tangible benefits to their people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043889", "text": "If you look at the operations of the Russian economy, price is now a very major factor in what's produced and that which is consumed.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000043890", "text": "If we can do that, it will demonstrate to Eastern Europe that NATO is serious about military cooperation, and that the Partnership For Peace program is real.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043891", "text": "A task force could actually even include people who are not members of NATO, countries that have signed up for the Partnership For Peace program, for example, could become part of the joint task forces.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043892", "text": "The Combined Joint Task Force gives the European members of NATO a capability for independent action.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043893", "text": "Actually, these three initiatives -- the Partnership For Peace and the Combined Joint Task Forces and the counterproliferation -- will keep NATO at the center of European security concerns and, therefore, keep American involvement in the center of Europe.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043894", "text": "They hope for eventual membership in NATO, but nevertheless, they thought this was an important first step.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043895", "text": "No one in the Middle East would doubt the crucial character of Syria to a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043896", "text": "You bring up repeal of the death tax, the estate tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000043897", "text": "But as I think my colleagues have said already, I don't think you'd expect Iran itself to be a principal focus of our discussions over the next couple of days.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043898", "text": "This is a very important step towards helping China better meet its own challenges and helping provide a more level playing field for all its trading partners.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043899", "text": "And every American will benefit from having less pollution in the air, especially our youngest Americans who are more vulnerable to smog and other pollution in the air they breathe.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000043900", "text": "And every American will benefit from having less pollution in the air, especially our youngest Americans who are more vulnerable to smog and other pollution in the air they breathe.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000043901", "text": "Well, clearly, under this law, the benefit of the doubt is given to the veteran.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000043902", "text": "You've got to remember that war was over in 1975.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043903", "text": "And now all of the sudden, the science is telling us about these cause and effect relationships.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000043904", "text": "In addition, it's very hard for a veteran to get information on where their claim status is, and we need to make that process more transparent.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000043905", "text": "Currently, 75 percent of our IT budget is just maintenance and sustaining our infrastructure, because our legacy systems are old and are at risk of failing.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000043906", "text": "You don't believe -- or you're sort of repudiating the multiple reports that have come out of your department that say climate change in the broader sense -- things like cardiovascular disease -- is a real kind of issue for your department.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000043907", "text": "In the present stringent conditions in Ukraine, I would think that would be a major incentive, but we'll have to let that work its way out.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043908", "text": "And the significance of the statement to that end was certainly not lost on the members of NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043909", "text": "And he told the members of NATO they shouldn't reaffirm that unless they were serious.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043910", "text": "No, we only have the assurances of the government of Ukraine at the present time.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000043911", "text": "From the beginning, we have seen democracy, freedom, as a critical need in the region.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043912", "text": "So this is -- this theme of promoting democracy is a key theme throughout the documents that will be adopted on Wednesday.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000043913", "text": "The war on terrorism, for instance, I think is a war to defend not just against attacks, but to defend an openness and a set of values that are very much under attack.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043914", "text": "And NATO has consistently taken the decision that the leaders of the Alliance felt were in the interest.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043915", "text": "Without a U.S. willingness to engage Iran, I don't think we would have achieved the sanctions that we have.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043916", "text": "The President's commitment to early childhood education is well known and I think reflected in the commitments that my colleague cited.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000043917", "text": "President Sarkozy suggested that the issue of bank compensation and that it was raised here represented something of a change of mind on the part of United States.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000043918", "text": "We believe that the balanced has shifted within Syria, that the Syrian people will not accept his rule anymore.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043919", "text": "And we'll continue to pursue avenues through the U.N. and other places to amplify the condemnation of the Syrian regime.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000043920", "text": "Frankly, they've principally been able to look only to Iran as a patron and supporter of their crackdown efforts within in their own country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043921", "text": "I'd point out that we imposed sanctions on Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043922", "text": "And in the course of this visit and during the Vice President's meetings, we're working on a number of issues on energy, on climate, on food and drug safety.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000043923", "text": "And then on the food and drug safety and innovation, we import a lot of food from China now and it's important for both parties that this should be safe, and we have some FDA inspectors on the ground in China, but not enough.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000043924", "text": "And China agreed to begin to develop a framework for -- a regulatory framework for these chemical compounds.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043925", "text": "China affirmed that this kind of development of patents would be possible now, which supports drug innovation and will be an important win for our industry.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043926", "text": "At the same time, we're not seeing the kind of commitment by China to make political reforms that the United States perhaps would like to see.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043927", "text": "Pakistan has long understood that we are at war with al Qaeda.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043928", "text": "And each of these threats are only increased by factors such as global trade and travel, the arise of drug resistance, or the potential for trans-boundaries threat.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000043929", "text": "Given this overall importance of food safety and protecting our nation's food supply here at home and around the world, protecting agriculture is also important in a bio threat and important to national security.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000043930", "text": "Countering terrorism in the region and ensuring the secure flow of energy out of the region -- those are core American interests and they're very much aligned with Saudi Arabia's interests.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000043931", "text": "I mean, obviously the Saudis have expressed real concern about U.S. policy in Syria and Iran and Egypt.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043932", "text": "He was able to articulate his views on Iran and Syria.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043933", "text": "For instance, all of our sanctions on terrorism-related issues are fully in place with respect to Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043934", "text": "In terms of what we do, we're working against the Assad regime in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043935", "text": "The President has invested a great deal in ensuring that NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is modernized and relevant to the challenges of the 21st century.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043936", "text": "There, rooted in the shared values and interests with Europe, we see across the board -- in Afghanistan, on Libya, in response to the transformational events in the Middle East and North Africa -- every day we work together with Europe.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043937", "text": "That just requires a lot of infrastructure and a lot of common standards to make that happen.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000043938", "text": "And North Korea, under this administration, has faced the strongest sanctions that it has ever faced in its history with regard to its proliferation activities.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043939", "text": "So instead of it being a bilateral issue between the United States and Iran or any other country and Iran, it became an issue about Iran and the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043940", "text": "This is still a question that faces North Korea, and the President has put this choice starkly to them.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043941", "text": "At the same time, President Medvedev, of course, is still the President of Russia, and there is a very substantive agenda that we are pursuing with Russia that includes both issues of agreement and issues where we differ.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043942", "text": "I think that with Russia, as well as with China, we will be discussing the P5-plus-1 efforts to pursue progress on the Iranian nuclear issue.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043943", "text": "The choices that the North Korean leaders have made have taken the people of North Korea into isolation and poverty and need.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043944", "text": "The achievements that have been made in Afghanistan would not have been possible without the robust commitment of the Canadians to improving the lives of the Afghan people and to rooting out terrorist safe havens within Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043945", "text": "Today, the Canadian government announced its forward-looking approach to Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043946", "text": "So as Canada moves to this new phase in its engagement in Afghanistan, the government announced that it will deploy up to 950 military trainers to support these efforts.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043947", "text": "First we have to make a fundamental decision that NATO should have the capacity to build a system that can protect its population and territories.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000043948", "text": "Without Russia, we would not have the robust U.N. Security Council resolution that passed earlier this year, nor would we have seen the kind of effective enforcement of those sanctions across the board.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043949", "text": "So Russia has been a fundamental partner in our effort, again, to put pressure on Iran.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043950", "text": "So just pointing to Afghanistan and Iran, two areas where the Russia reset has had huge dividends for critical national security issues.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043951", "text": "Particularly important in our conversations is the focus on clean energy and clean technology, and how we can advance our partnership in that area.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000043952", "text": "But obviously we face a difficult situation in Afghanistan with our ongoing efforts there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043953", "text": "And that monthly session, as usual, focused on both Afghanistan and Pakistan, and with regard to Afghanistan, focused on both the security situation and the governing situation.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043954", "text": "So we think given the set of circumstances that Afghanistan is in that appropriate measures have been taken.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043955", "text": "I have a question with regard to the war on drugs.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043956", "text": "I just know that energy, as it has been in the past in his discussions, and other administration officials, will be a topic for a good conversation with the King.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000043957", "text": "I think Iran has got to be very high on that list.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043958", "text": "Because of this, in May 2019, China scheduled fentanyl and other similar analogues, such as controlled substances, which was a historic and significant event.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043959", "text": "Taking the steps towards the humanitarian crisis at our southern border has also been critical to keeping those drugs out of the country.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000043960", "text": "These HIDTA initiatives, for example, have dismantled 3, 000 drug trafficking organizations, they've removed $16.5 billion of illicit drugs off our streets, and they have made nearly 99, 000 arrests of drug traffickers.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000043961", "text": "So I think so much of it is education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000043962", "text": "And, obviously, while Nigeria has an enormous debt and if you look at social and economic indicators, one could certainly make the case that poverty is an acute problem.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000043963", "text": "In South Korea, the leadership there is very concerned and upset about the U.S. Agency for Geographic Names changing the designation of a small group of islands to undesignated.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043964", "text": "Bob Fu, the pastor from Midland, Texas, who is very close to the house church movement in China, expressed his concerns about the fact that, as I was saying earlier, house churches in China are not registered at this point.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043965", "text": "I think what we are looking for in China is not gestures.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000043966", "text": "There are many engagements between the United States military and Taiwan military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043967", "text": "With respect to Syria, our efforts continue to try to engage Israel and Syria in discussions and negotiations that would lead to peace there and also Israel and Lebanon.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043968", "text": "As we've talked about before, Iraqis do not describe it as a civil war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043969", "text": "No country in a civil war respects the decision of a government.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043970", "text": "The report says that outside actors, including Iran, are not likely to be a major driver of violence.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043971", "text": "But, of course, if you talk to any of those leaders, their concerns about Iran go much beyond an Iranian role in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043972", "text": "They are concerned about what Iran is doing to destabilize the democratically elected Siniora government in Lebanon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043973", "text": "And of course, there's concern in the region about a nuclear-armed Iran because of the current Iran can cause this much disruption, the concern is with a nuclear Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043974", "text": "Steve, in 2002 and 2003, in the run-up to the Iraq war, the administration made statements that were obviously not borne by facts subsequently.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000043975", "text": "Now when it comes to Iran, you've been saying for months that Iran is a key driver of violence in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043976", "text": "What we know about this virus is it looks to be the same virus as is causing the situation in Mexico.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000043977", "text": "In terms of duration, my comment earlier about every outbreak is unique is really important to remember.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000043978", "text": "One of the very important issues that we're looking at is how severe is this outbreak that's taking place.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000043979", "text": "In terms of the stages and phases of pre-pandemic situations, the real important take-away is that we have an outbreak of a new infectious disease that we're approaching aggressively.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000043980", "text": "When you look at the after-tax numbers, what you see is that the middle class has done better than they were in 2000, and for many people by a pretty significant amount.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000043981", "text": "You know, our -- I mean this is, as you know, it's a pretty inexact science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000043982", "text": "First, the Departments of Agriculture and Interior are leading the way on surveillance, particularly of wild birds, but also of our domestic bird population here.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000043983", "text": "And they had been doing surveillance before, but we've asked them to ramp that up, particularly in light of the concern that avian flu through the migratory bird population will come into the continental U.S. through Alaska, over the Bering Straits.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000043984", "text": "But we cannot say for certain that this virus is going to be one that causes a pandemic.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000043985", "text": "On the issue of prioritization of vaccine, that is something that we are currently working on.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000043986", "text": "Number one, could you tell us the -- if a pandemic does strike, a part of the plan is that the administration would have enough vaccine within six months of a pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000043987", "text": "On the issue of the 1918 pandemic, realize that things are very different today.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000043988", "text": "He promised to lift the restrictions on American energy, and he's done that.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000043989", "text": "Our country has never experienced this type of terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000043990", "text": "Those states that are supporting the extremists are Syria and Iran -- and just look at the facts.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043991", "text": "It said those extremists in Syria and Iran, those support the ones responsible.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000043992", "text": "Obviously, North Korea has denied involvement in that.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000043993", "text": "Well, look, to the extent that the military is involved, they follow the same rules and strictures that they do in other military operations.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043994", "text": "So one of the first places to deliver a bit of a setback to Iran is actually for the Iraqi government to succeed in what it is doing to take on illegal militia in the southern part of the country and in Sadr City.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043995", "text": "So I think real progress on the issue of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000043996", "text": "The concerns he's mentioned all the way through was that it would be directed against Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000043997", "text": "Obviously, the military and intelligence officials are going over those materials.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000043998", "text": "So it will be a topic, Iran will certainly be a topic with the EU leadership, but I think it will be simply to review the bidding, where we are, and reaffirm what has been very good cooperation and solidarity on the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000043999", "text": "Well, let me say broadly, I think one of the things that we -- obviously, our relationship with China is an important one; it's a very complex one.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044000", "text": "And I think we see the emergence of China as one that presents challenges, but also at the same time presents opportunities for the United States and for the rest of the region.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044001", "text": "There's also significant investment in clean coal technology, solar and wind -- which Secretary Bodman will be talking about all of the above.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000044002", "text": "North Korea says that it's looking for reciprocal actions from the United States in order to enter into a nuclear deal.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044003", "text": "Rudy Giuliani over the weekend called for regime change in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044004", "text": "As I've said repeatedly, regime change in Iran is not the administration's policy.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044005", "text": "As Mike Pompeo just said, we've imposed very stringent sanctions on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044006", "text": "Ukraine is obviously a very important country as it relates to non-proliferation and nuclear security.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044007", "text": "They also discussed the situation in Afghanistan and their shared commitment to work for a strong, stable, and prosperous South Asia.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044008", "text": "Second, the Presidents talked about Afghanistan, which of course is a very important issue for the Kazakhs being in the region.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044009", "text": "The President is not interested in religion, he's interested in results and he's trying to fund programs that have proven to be effective.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000044010", "text": "So from my standpoint, the initiative has never been about religion, but about results and about funding the best provider, whomever it is.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000044011", "text": "IT infrastructure is there are a number of common infrastructure expenditures that every agency faces -- IT security, IT training, a help desk and so forth.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000044012", "text": "Several years ago, General Shinseki was chastised for suggesting that the war in Iraq might cost upwards of $200 million.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044013", "text": "The National Guard deployments along the Southwest border, in support of DHS, is an important but temporary bridge to improve civilian security capabilities.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044014", "text": "It's critical that this group understands that, yes, all of our agents begin on the Southern border, but we transfer them up north after they become experienced and journeyman agents, after about a three- or four- or five-year period.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044015", "text": "And President Hu invited President Bush to go to China after the APEC -- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meeting in Pusan, South Korea in November.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044016", "text": "And the President stressed the importance of China working with us to have a successful diplomatic resolution.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044017", "text": "But our position at the U.N. is we don't want a vote at the current time on that particular question for the reasons that I cited.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044018", "text": "When you look at demand in India, likely growth trajectories for their economy, for China and elsewhere, it's an area where cooperation on civil nuclear makes some sense, and that's why it was a key focus here.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044019", "text": "The focus of the entire initiative has been the Southwest border, but we remain open, if there are governors interested along the Northern border -- there's no, by necessity, limitation.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044020", "text": "The position of the United States government is that the ROC -- Republic of China -- is an issue undecided, and it has been left undecided, as you know, for many, many years.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044021", "text": "What we know from experience is good governments that fight corruption, invest in their people through health and education, and are open to the power of free trade and free markets.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000044022", "text": "In terms of trade generally, the President has made it clear -- and clearly it's policy to avoid protectionism.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044023", "text": "That meeting will be a discussion of energy and climate, and obviously bolstered by the great progress in the House last week.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044024", "text": "And by real threats, I mean countries like Iran and not Russia.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044025", "text": "The members of APEC, to which Australia and Indonesia both belong, are responsible for 55 percent of global GDP and 50 percent of global trade.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000044026", "text": "Indonesia is a country with whom our trade has lagged -- I think it's something like $23 billion two-way trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044027", "text": "Obviously when you're talking about issues like economics and trade in Asia, the unspoken player apart from the U.S. is China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044028", "text": "As Jeff said, Afghanistan -- Australia is a key partner with us in Afghanistan, and again, Indonesia has had some successes in some of the global pressure that's been applied to al Qaeda and its affiliates this year.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044029", "text": "Obviously it's related to our concerns about Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044030", "text": "The President also said last year at the U.N. that there needed to be consequences for Iran if it didn't meet those obligations, because, again, international law must mean something.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044031", "text": "He doesn't just see it as a bilateral issue with China or Japan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044032", "text": "A follow-up on the reference to Iran that I think you made, Ben, and I think the Ambassador made, as well.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044033", "text": "Iran never fully followed through on the commitments that they had made to the P5-plus-1.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044034", "text": "And I think the U.N. is a useful forum to underscore that point because our case has always been that this is not a bilateral irritant.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044035", "text": "The United States is not imposing sanctions on Iran because we have a bilateral grievance with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044036", "text": "China's responsible as a stakeholder, as a permanent member of the Security Council to make progress with us on issues with Syria, with Sudan, with Iran and so forth - with Burma, for example.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044037", "text": "And Samantha Power and Aneesh Chopra will be speaking to you about the democracy and open government cooperation.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044038", "text": "And as you said, I was in China, met with -- three days with most of the leadership in China, and I think this is pretty clearly understood.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044039", "text": "They also had an opportunity to talk about the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044040", "text": "And I think we should leave that announcement to NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044041", "text": "We should, I think from the outset, underscore that the Pakistani military is a developed, fully functional military with a standing chain of command and a full -- pretty much a full capacity military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044042", "text": "So we're very much partnered with the Pakistani military to make them as capable as possible, to shift from their conventional standards to what you might call counterinsurgency or internal security.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044043", "text": "Iran has traditionally played a very important role in the stability of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044044", "text": "The science here represents an evolving body of knowledge and a very robust area of research across all of these different topics.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044045", "text": "I've said a couple of times that the science in this area is evolving and so determinations of the certainty that the sciences feel that they can place on any particular finding is important.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044046", "text": "The U.S. is a significant contributor to that science, and we have been taking the science on board over the course of the last five years.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044047", "text": "It would also strengthen Iran, an Iran already emboldened by diplomatic success seeking a nuclear weapon, and the prospect that that could pose for American interests in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044048", "text": "On education, the President will call on Congress to strengthen and reauthorize the very successful No Child Left Behind Act, which was a signature, bipartisan achievement of the President's first term.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044049", "text": "And, of course, a number of those are supported by Iran, as you know.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044050", "text": "If you peel back all the rhetoric and all the campaign talk, these are issues on education, immigration, energy and health care, that the American people expect to see progress made by their leaders in Washington.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044051", "text": "Canada has had troops on the ground in Afghanistan alongside American forces since day one in this important mission.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044052", "text": "And that involves engaging China, and especially engaging Chinese leadership in ways that increase the quality of our communication and elicit better cooperation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044053", "text": "Now, in fairness, Xi Jinping isn't yet the number one official in China, so one likely wouldn't expect him to be breaking new ground.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044054", "text": "And China has agreed to remove certain discriminatory procurement policies and business innovation policies, and to strengthen their enforcement of intellectual property rights.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044055", "text": "Back in August, when Vice President Biden was in China, I think he set the stage for this visit in a couple of ways.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044056", "text": "But there'll be no compromising on the safety of a vaccine; we're going to go through the process.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044057", "text": "But when we have a vaccine, we'll make sure it's safe for the American people.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044058", "text": "To support testing and containment, this week, CDC put out guidance around testing for higher education, as well as for K-through-12 students.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044059", "text": "Before a vaccine is ready, we'll be working with states like Florida to plan for what distribution will look like.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044060", "text": "We will not cut corners in our assessment to the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044061", "text": "I think the outbreak in Hillsborough and Tampa Bay is a little different than the outbreak in Dade and Broward.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000044062", "text": "This virus does not like sunlight, heat, and humidity, and I think you guys have shown that with research.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044063", "text": "This interagency, administration-wide approach is designed to make housing safe in this country.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000044064", "text": "And this school demonstrated the hope that we can fight crime successfully.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000044065", "text": "And when we were able to root out that problem in public housing, it had a major effect in an entire section of Boston.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000044066", "text": "And when everybody is working together, when we have involved the citizens of public housing, then we can truly make a difference.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000044067", "text": "As the President stated in his State of the Union address, much of the violent crime that has terrorized our cities is the result of drug use and drug trafficking.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000044068", "text": "All the nations have a stake in the war and all have a part to play in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044069", "text": "As a follow up, because certainly in the light of the hearings going on this week, and the criticism for this surveillance, it would seem that the President talking about a success story such as this sort of skirts the question of the NSA.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000044070", "text": "Now, we've been battling this pandemic for the better part of a year.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044071", "text": "I think we have yet to control this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044072", "text": "There are five sectors that the U.N., with the government and the international community, have set up.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044073", "text": "I think that's -- China already has been -- in their current five-year plan, they have a 20-percent reduction target in terms of energy intensity.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044074", "text": "I think the U.N. should make a pledge to electric vehicle motorcades within five years.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044075", "text": "Back to the issue we were talking about this morning, the 2002 resolution for the war, authorizing the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044076", "text": "I don't think it's a question of comparing China and India and other large emerging market countries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044077", "text": "The border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, I think everyone is aware of the difficulty and the challenges presented by that region.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044078", "text": "And second, as far as dealing with global war on terrorism, President has been talking very tough last week, including on his trip in the Middle East.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044079", "text": "No one wants to see an arms race in Iran, and the world community -- certainly here in Washington and certainly with the U.N. Security Council -- is unified in that position.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044080", "text": "We think it's not really a spending program; this is an investment in an asset.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044081", "text": "He added the Ukraine to his visit, and as you know, Georgia and Ukraine are aspiring NATO members, and we support their membership.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044082", "text": "As I said, clearly in the short term, I think they are paying a price for the disproportionate actions that they've taken.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000044083", "text": "And so it's less a choice of what the U.S. government or Europe and other countries make; the question of choices really falls on Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044084", "text": "If the President of Russia decides to sign that, what's the U.S. response and what's the U.S. --", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044085", "text": "We think our relationship with China has had a positive impact on freedom and human rights in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044086", "text": "Any effort to try to sanction this at the U.N., I think you would see a very swift and clear message from the United States, if not the other members of the U.N. Security Council, that there will be no recognition of Russia's act.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044087", "text": "Again, this is a damaging step for Russia, and this is a result of choices that the Russians are making, and they're very unfortunate choices.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044088", "text": "As we've said, there is -- Russia made a decision -- they made a tactical decision.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044089", "text": "Russia will do what is in its interest, and it is not in Russia's interest to have a nuclear-armed nation on its border on the Korean Peninsula.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044090", "text": "We are dealing with the threats in Iran in a very direct way through the P5-plus-1 process.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044091", "text": "No, Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader, has refused talks with an Iraqi delegation in Iran to end clashes.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044092", "text": "We have the increasing costs of energy that makes things like fertilizer more expensive.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044093", "text": "It makes transporting and distribution of food more expensive.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000044094", "text": "So you have to remember that two-way trade is important; it's a benefit to both countries.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044095", "text": "I think in terms of U.S.- India trade, we believe there's tremendous potential to grow U.S.-India trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044096", "text": "As you know, one of the issues that's been holding that up is Korea bringing its regime into compliance with international import standards for high quality beef.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044097", "text": "MR Yes, we want to move out of this war by succeeding.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044098", "text": "You saw members of the Mahdi Army publicly laying down arms.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000044099", "text": "And of course, the endless experiment within democracy is always to make it more effective and attending to the needs and safety of the people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044100", "text": "They don't like how this administration is handling this war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044101", "text": "Energy is an issue where there is substantial agreement between both parties on this -- same thing with education.", "issue": "Energy"}
{"id": "0000044102", "text": "You have put a lot of faith in technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000044103", "text": "And second, as far as the Iranian nuclear issue is concerned, again the President of Iran has said that those who are against our nuclear program will be punished severely.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044104", "text": "So the fact that you have people deployed in a time of war to protect Americans is important; but at the same time, you also maintain your capability of dealing with domestic concerns.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044105", "text": "And the strategic goal is to build a democracy that not only become an ally in a war on terror but becomes, by example, a complete rebuttal to the ideology of hatred that's been spread by Zawahiri, bin Laden and others.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044106", "text": "Number one, winning the war on terror -- big idea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044107", "text": "Yes, because in China, we are losing -- I think that's beyond the powers of being Press Secretary and even the President.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044108", "text": "You just said war on terror comments at the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044109", "text": "The two of them shared their thoughts about the global war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044110", "text": "The key here is if Iran agrees to the stipulations that the United States and the international community have made -- which is to back away from any potential nuclear -- the creation of nuclear weapons -- that's a development we would welcome.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044111", "text": "If that person is talking to a U.S. citizen, it does not mean that you're sitting around doing surveillance on the U.S. citizen.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000044112", "text": "Also, just -- on Afghanistan, many peace workers and many countries and many U.N. workers are not willing to go to Afghanistan to work because now foundations are hostages and others feel the same thing may happen to them.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044113", "text": "Well, the administration supports the talks, and South Korea had notified us in advance.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044114", "text": "Iraq's Foreign Minister today criticized Iran for literally bombarding the Kurdish areas in the north with artillery shipments.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044115", "text": "Ultimately the cause of this presidency in any democracy is going to be better served by getting facts into public distribution.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044116", "text": "Just because -- again, as I was trying to caution earlier today, Ed -- just because somebody is asking a question doesn't mean that somebody is guilty of a crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000044117", "text": "Now somebody has pled guilty to a crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000044118", "text": "The terrorist surveillance program, as it has been labeled -- it was not so labeled at the time -- was a program of doing surveillance on communications of al Qaeda or suspected al Qaeda members internationally -- internationally into the United States.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000044119", "text": "They will talk about the broader war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044120", "text": "They're looking for consensus in a new democracy because they think that's the best way to build long-term confidence.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044121", "text": "But the National Intelligence Estimate has suggested that the war in Iraq could actually be helping al Qaeda in terms of recruiting --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044122", "text": "It once again points to the fact that wars are unpredictable -- every war in American history.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044123", "text": "Presidents do not commit themselves to war other than out of a deep and firm belief that it is the thing that is required to keep us safe and secure.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044124", "text": "It spoke a great deal about the war, the war on terror, the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044125", "text": "He was celebrating in his own view -- what he said was celebrating terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044126", "text": "I mean, this war has ebbed and flowed, and there certainly has been some good news over the years, and yet, the President's poll numbers are not improving.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044127", "text": "Number two, the government of Afghanistan certainly understands our commitment.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044128", "text": "The President of course believes in prosecuting crimes of discrimination against anybody.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000044129", "text": "You've tried to reduce the war to one person.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044130", "text": "As a matter of fact, it is a war that actually has victory as its aim.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044131", "text": "Furthermore, it is a strategy that is not strictly military; it has very important developmental components, including the provincial reconstruction teams; it involves not only the military, but State Department and, really, people throughout the federal government.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044132", "text": "You've said you can't tell when the war will end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044133", "text": "The fact is that you and I and everybody in this room and everybody in this country understands that the American people don't like war, they don't want to be in a war forever.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044134", "text": "So when you try to talk -- this is not the U.S.'s war to win or lose.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044135", "text": "They were supposed to be changing the constitution in 2006 under the U.S.-brokered agreement in 2005.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000044136", "text": "They also understand the importance of free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044137", "text": "And in a situation like that where we are advocating for freer trade around the globe, we also want to make sure that our companies are not placed at a competitive disadvantage.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044138", "text": "Well, we think it's important -- no, we believe in free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044139", "text": "But, Tony, the United States is involved in this war; we have over 150, 000 troops on the ground, and it's dependent on the Iraqi government how this goes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044140", "text": "He believes Islam is a religion of peace.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000044141", "text": "Possible presidential candidate, Fred Thompson advocates putting a blockade around Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044142", "text": "Today in The New York Times it showed an Iraqi woman weeping -- she lost seven members of her family from American air strikes.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000044143", "text": "Well, he'll be talking about the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044144", "text": "So this will be a conversation about the war on terror and who we're fighting and what challenges we face.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044145", "text": "What you have to have in a time of war is the honesty to assess the situation on the ground.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044146", "text": "One, as far as terrorism is concerned, there have been, last week and this week, a number of spiritual leaders from India speaking in Washington, including Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Sant Rajinder Singh and also hugging Amma.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044147", "text": "Look, I think there are many different -- terrorism is something that springs from any number of sources.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044148", "text": "So what would Senator Warner and General Lute be talking about in terms of -- the President talks about the war all the time.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044149", "text": "And quite often it is the random act of vigilance, the report to a police department, the sighting of something suspicious that ends up helping save lives -- or the activities of somebody who decides to get involved.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000044150", "text": "But, no, it's a serious offer, because I think what happens when people think about the war, itself, it's a difficult thing and it's something that tears at the heart of any nation.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044151", "text": "Based on Gordon Brown's -- the readout of Gordon Brown's conversation with the President, their approach and the vigor with which they intend to prosecute the war on terror is largely the same.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044152", "text": "And, Tony, could you clarify, in terms of the relationship between Congress and the President, as regards to the war, the President is essentially saying that he is running the war and the Congress is funding the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044153", "text": "Every war features this.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044154", "text": "Well, the war on terror is not going to end in September, and the terrorist threat is not going to end in September.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044155", "text": "So the fact that you have al Qaeda in Iraq trying to make Iraq the central front in the war on terror probably is not a surprise.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044156", "text": "Al Qaeda started war against the United States in 1993 with the bombing of the World Trade Center, that continued with actions at Khobar Towers, the bombing of the USS Cole, the bombings of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044157", "text": "Al Qaeda was already in the battlefield before that war began.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044158", "text": "It's a war that's being fought based on what actually takes place on the ground.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044159", "text": "We're all tired of war and we would all love to have our forces coming home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044160", "text": "The jail time issue -- normally, somebody at least serves a day in jail, a week in jail, a month in jail.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000044161", "text": "So you throw out this corruption, and what's happening there right now, but if you isolate them, it could make them more extreme.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000044162", "text": "But on the other hand, you also have evidence that a government in Afghanistan and certainly allies in Afghanistan are fighting back because it is a cause worth promoting and defending.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044163", "text": "This is part of -- this is part of the larger war on terror, and we, in fact, remain fully engaged on all fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044164", "text": "Rather than bringing out an old quote from Jimmy Carter, our position is pretty clear on the importance of democracy in Zimbabwe and the record of President Mugabe.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044165", "text": "Russia is opposed to the establishment of a U.S. missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044166", "text": "This is a war, and it is the sort of thing where you want to make sure that the measures that you are taking are producing results.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044167", "text": "In addition, on the war on terror, similarly, there is a real determination to figure out a way forward that is going to lead to success.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044168", "text": "We're concentrating at this juncture on the war on terror and the people who are coming back.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044169", "text": "Indeed, Senator Reid has, at some point, declared the war lost, and also has declared the surge a failure, even though it has not yet been fully enacted.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044170", "text": "He's going to talk about the war on terror and remind people about the kind of people that we've been fighting.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044171", "text": "You know, we are committed to having more resources in Afghanistan, as the President has said.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044172", "text": "Tony, on Iran, previous sanctions apparently didn't work in slowing down Iran's nuclear activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044173", "text": "But as we saw in the case of North Korea, concerted diplomatic activity and pressure on the government of North Korea did bring the North Koreans back to the six-party talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044174", "text": "When we had our exchange about the new accord with Korea on Friday, it was also the last day at work for Dr. Bob Joseph, the Under Secretary for Arms Control and Disarmament.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044175", "text": "Tony, Afghanistan is again in the news, and the Afghans are happy with the President's efforts -- he liberated them.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044176", "text": "A war is not a situation where you can sit down and neatly predict what exactly is going to happen.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044177", "text": "The fact is, the war is -- I know it's becoming a cliche, but it's true -- it's a highly complex enterprise.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044178", "text": "Tony, going back to President's global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044179", "text": "So the fact that a war is difficult is something we know, and we try constantly to respond.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044180", "text": "New Secretary General of the U.N. is trying his best to reform the U.N., and also making some changes at the highest levels.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044181", "text": "Indians in India are saying that India has been helping the U.N. and the U.S. on global war on terrorism, and the world's largest democracy deserves to have the U.N. Security Council seat.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044182", "text": "Under the agreements reached today, North Korea has committed to take specific actions within the next 60 days.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044183", "text": "In addition to those immediate actions, North Korea has also committed to disclose all its nuclear programs and disable its existing nuclear facilities -- as an initial step toward abandoning all of those programs and facilities under international supervision.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044184", "text": "We're not talking about deputy assistant secretaries of agriculture -- cute question, but it doesn't get to the point that people have moved armaments into Iraq and are killing Americans.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000044185", "text": "So anybody who is trying to use this as the administration trying to lay the predicate for a war with Iran -- no, we're committed to diplomacy with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044186", "text": "The one thing we are committed to doing is having democracy succeed in Iraq.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044187", "text": "We're not getting ready for war in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044188", "text": "It is a global war on terror, as the President made very clear on September 20th of 2001.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044189", "text": "And she brought into the issue of gender into this whole -- I spoke with her office earlier today on this, if you're talking about the flights.", "issue": "gender"}
{"id": "0000044190", "text": "On North Korea, there are reports there may be an agreement coming in the six-party talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044191", "text": "As you know, the global war on terror is a struggle against terrorists who are threatening the entire civilized world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044192", "text": "As we've said before, also, when it comes to cross-border incursions, people making their way into Afghanistan, it's very important to deal with it.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044193", "text": "Iran says it's holding the United States responsible for the safety of an Iranian diplomat who was seized by people in Iraqi uniforms, Iraqi soldier uniforms.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044194", "text": "One of the big contributors to what's going on right now is high unemployment and a considerable amount of criminal activity that's made possible by the fact that people don't have other things to do.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000044195", "text": "It is an important device in extending free trade and also allowing negotiators to operate effectively.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044196", "text": "This was his decision to go to war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044197", "text": "You see, not only do we have free trade within the global structure of the Doha round, but also the United States is engaged in a series of free trade agreements that also have yielded real benefits for American businesses and workers.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044198", "text": "You ask about education, always important -- you're a parent and you know.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044199", "text": "Over the weekend we just had the third worst day in the war in terms of U.S. casualties, and then today I think there were 70 people killed in Baghdad.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044200", "text": "Tony, Iran decided to block IAEA inspectors from entering the country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044201", "text": "No, no, no, but it comes at a time when the nation showed -- the midterm elections, they were voting against the war in Iraq, against -- changing the course.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044202", "text": "The war was clearly a concern, but there were other matters that were of co-equal concern to voters.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044203", "text": "It will address major issues, including the war on terror, energy, health care, immigration, and education.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044204", "text": "You also now have the reports on the Mahdi Army , which I think reassures a lot of people, in terms of going after Shia militias.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000044205", "text": "We're not creating a war of words.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044206", "text": "Tony, for the first time, the United States has agreed to bilateral talks with North Korea if North Korea agrees to give up its nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044207", "text": "Tony, in the list of priorities for the speech, you mentioned energy, but you didn't mention environment.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044208", "text": "On China, the White House has expressed concern that China tested a satellite-killing weapon.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044209", "text": "And, furthermore, that an Iraqi democracy is standing up and meeting a lot of the challenges that are facing it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044210", "text": "But the ambassador from India, he said that as far as terrorism is concerned, it's mixing two things.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044211", "text": "To tie one's hand in a time of war is a pretty extreme move.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044212", "text": "The point here is that the President understands that a war is unpopular.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044213", "text": "We think it's democracy, even with the Republican National Committee.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044214", "text": "The idea of having something that is designed to bind the hands of the Commander-in-Chief or the commanders in the field, is just unusual in a time of war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044215", "text": "As a matter of fact, the strategy with Iran is -- Not only me, I mean -- MR We're not planning on invading Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044216", "text": "This is an important day for the U.N., with new leadership, and with whom the President is meeting today, a new U.S. Ambassador heading up there.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044217", "text": "As regards Iran, the United States is using diplomatic measures right now to address concerns -- including Iran's nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044218", "text": "What I'm saying is that this notion that somehow what the President was announcing was a precursor to planned military action -- a planned war against Iran, that's just not the case.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044219", "text": "He certainly does not play as prominent a role in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044220", "text": "I think millions of Americans believe that this war is winnable, and I think, furthermore, that it's important to rebuild the sense of political unity.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044221", "text": "Is the focus on this war and the cost of this war drowning out the domestic agenda and your ability to pursue both --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044222", "text": "National reconciliation is absolutely vital to building the democracy that can sustain, govern and defend itself.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044223", "text": "Is the administration trying to send a message to Iran to --", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044224", "text": "It is important that the democracies in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Lebanon are allowed not merely to survive but to thrive and to provide an example and an inspiration for people in the region.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044225", "text": "We've also made it clear that Iran needs to suspend uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044226", "text": "The President -- in this sense, Helen, the President understands that you cannot win the war without public support.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044227", "text": "They do not want to support the goal of a democracy in which the human rights of all are protected and --", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044228", "text": "But this is not the same as waging war on the First Amendment.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044229", "text": "U.S. is also selling civil nuclear agreement with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044230", "text": "As a former member of the Joint Chiefs and somebody who was deeply involved in the first Iraq war, he is somebody who understands the kind of practical considerations that go into it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044231", "text": "Tony, as far as this Iraq war is concerned, now there is a new chief at the United Nations, South Korean foreign minister, and also now we will have a new chief at the Pentagon.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044232", "text": "But when these top military officials are essentially saying the military has been stretched thin under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld --", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044233", "text": "He also believes in religious tolerance.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000044234", "text": "They need to stop supporting terrorism in Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044235", "text": "Anybody who is trying to take down this government or destabilize the democracy through acts of violence are enemies to the democracy in Iraq.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044236", "text": "And second, it's not only Senator Dodd who will be going, but also by the end of the year, Senator Kerry and Senator Specter, a member of your own party, is planning a trip to Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044237", "text": "The military may have some views on perhaps the military implications of something that might be suggested by State.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044238", "text": "Helen, what the President has said is that the war on terror will continue.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044239", "text": "But, no, beyond anything we've told you, we have not had -- it has not changed our approach to the government of Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044240", "text": "But that doesn't make the war go away, Tony.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044241", "text": "As you also know, in any time of war, there are going to be times when a war is popular and times when it's deeply unpopular.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044242", "text": "And every war we've won has also been, at some point, deeply unpopular.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044243", "text": "But it is important to note, especially where you really do have multilateral cooperation, we've been handing off responsibility to NATO in some of the areas.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044244", "text": "This is Human Rights Week around the globe, and human rights organizations like -- are accusing many countries, like China, Burma and also Iran, violators of human rights.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044245", "text": "We are pleased the government of China has announced that next Monday, December 18th, the six-party talks will resume.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044246", "text": "I don't think it's immoral to be a democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044247", "text": "He's also saying you're not fighting the war on terror smartly.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044248", "text": "Question is, as far as Iraq war is concerned, we are giving billions of dollars to many Arab and Muslim countries.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044249", "text": "Iran sees it in its interest to have the United States bogged down in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044250", "text": "I'll just deal with Iran right now -- it says, Iran should stem the flow of equipment, technology and training to any group resorting to violence in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044251", "text": "It says, Iran should make clear its support for the territorial integrity of Iraq as a unified state, as well as respect for the sovereignty of Iraq and its government.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044252", "text": "The first thing he talked about is the fact that there's a democracy in Iraq, and that this is something that is an incredible and important difference.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044253", "text": "No, I don't -- Q: -- he may no longer believe that we're winning the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044254", "text": "And the job in Afghanistan involves far more than simply dealing with the border, although that's an important issue.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044255", "text": "You also have matters of basic infrastructure, of building the economy, of dealing with opium eradication, and of fighting the Taliban and others.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000044256", "text": "And some of them have also lost members during the present war, and it has not changed their commitment.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044257", "text": "It is the central front in the war on terror, and you do have to win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044258", "text": "I had an opportunity to talk both with Senators Reid and Durbin; we talked primarily about the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044259", "text": "And part of democracy is fighting through and trying to get the best way to solve problems.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044260", "text": "Here I am talking matters of war and peace and I'm looking at these things.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044261", "text": "It has always been hard business, and in every war in American history, the public has recoiled, understandably, at the cost of engagement, especially far away.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044262", "text": "Look, in a time of war -- I love this.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044263", "text": "You're assurances at the beginning of the war have not come true.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044264", "text": "When it comes to fighting the war on terror, Iraq in particular, but elsewhere, you've got two different approaches.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044265", "text": "It's a war, Jessica, and sometimes things get worse, and what you do is you adjust to make sure that you win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044266", "text": "The purpose of this war is not for the United States to win it, but for Iraq to win it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044267", "text": "But our political -- international political support has eroded from the beginning of this war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044268", "text": "A question on Republican warnings about a potential takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives in an accusation of race baiting.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000044269", "text": "Strategy, as I understand it, is how war is conducted, it's a plan of action.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044270", "text": "The President made clear his view that Syria is continuing to interfere in Lebanese politics, and is also standing in the way of progress in Israeli-Palestinian affairs through its support of Hamas.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044271", "text": "As bin Laden has said, it's the semper fi in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044272", "text": "How do you debate the war at all if all opposition to any component, any aspect of the war -- I didn't say that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044273", "text": "No, the suggestion was to treat the war in isolation from the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044274", "text": "If this tension continues war cannot be avoided.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044275", "text": "North Korea is calling the sanctions a declaration of war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044276", "text": "And in a time of war you have acts of violence, either concentrated or sporadic, intended to capture people's attention.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044277", "text": "But on the other hand, Prime Minister Abbas has also demonstrated a willingness to pursue democracy and work directly with Israel.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044278", "text": "Later on, he says that the militias may be one of the easier problems to deal with; the more serious challenge is terrorism, composed of the remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044279", "text": "Well, the President actually has been changing the direction of the war for quite some time.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044280", "text": "Certainly, the war on terror is going to be the central issue.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044281", "text": "Secondly, it's important that democracy succeed.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044282", "text": "Tell me how dangerous you think North Korea is, what kind of threat does it pose.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044283", "text": "Keep in mind, the agreed framework -- as early as 1992, North Korea was being brought to the table to talk about nuclear weapons proliferation.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044284", "text": "He's not talking about the war as a comma.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044285", "text": "But in addition to the Foley scandal, and the senior Republicans forming a sort of circular firing squad -- you've got the war in Iraq going badly and you've got the Woodward book.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044286", "text": "The constant complaint inside the building has been, the generals always prepare to fight the last war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044287", "text": "The President looks forward to discussing cooperation in the war on terror and stability in the southeast Europe -- in southeast Europe with the Prime Minister, as well as U.S. support for Croatia's NATO and European Union aspirations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044288", "text": "He said, The central front in the war on terror is Iraq, and I know Iraq is on the minds of a lot of people here in Chicago.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044289", "text": "Later on he says, There's been a lot of sacrifice in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044290", "text": "He has been saying that it's a tough war, it's a long war, it's a war that's going to outlive his presidency.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044291", "text": "And as far as the war on terror, take a look at the vote yesterday.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044292", "text": "We've often been accused of trying to brush Afghanistan under the table.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044293", "text": "The other thing that happens is that when it comes to Afghanistan, you had the transfer of U.S. troops -- U.S. command to NATO command in some of those areas, and the NATO fighters have done an extraordinary job.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044294", "text": "And I'm sure he's happy that NATO has taken over Afghanistan.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044295", "text": "In short, what has happened in the war on terror is that you at one point had Osama bin Laden with the ability to control a country.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044296", "text": "Tony, he says we're winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044297", "text": "And, yet, the President is saying, we're winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044298", "text": "But we're also fighting the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044299", "text": "What it also concludes is that the possibility of democracy is going to have a significant discouraging effect.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044300", "text": "It doesn't say that Iraq has made terrorism worse.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044301", "text": "And this is what happens as the war against terror continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044302", "text": "The engagement in the war on terror I think has made it clear as other people look at these terrorists that they mean business.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044303", "text": "Bin Laden declared it the central front in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044304", "text": "What has been happening in Afghanistan is that the government of Afghanistan has slowly and continuously -- and I've said this before -- been expanding its sphere of influence.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044305", "text": "It's perfectly possible that the war in Iraq is creating more people who say that they want to be jihadis.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044306", "text": "They also talked about cooperation on the global war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044307", "text": "And the moral basis of the war on terror is to fight back against the ideology that impelled people to slaughter our fellow citizens on September 11th and furthermore has led to the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocents around the world since.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044308", "text": "Whereas circumstances may arise in the event of an outbreak of a future international conflict in which there would be no protecting power, who approves cooperation, and under true scrutiny, the conventions -- the protection of victims of war can be applied.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044309", "text": "Senators Warner and McCain and Graham are just as committed to winning the war on terror as anybody else.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044310", "text": "This is not about, you know -- you talked about how to conduct the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044311", "text": "He said the U.S. government prevented Russia from hiring lobbyists in Washington.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044312", "text": "He's been very helpful in the war on terror, and he's taking considerable political risks to do so.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044313", "text": "He is an extremely valuable ally in the war on terror, and we consider him such.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044314", "text": "In any time of war you have rules of engagement, and our troops are instructed to follow them.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044315", "text": "So it's several -- I don't think anybody is projecting imminent civil war, but if you have instability --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044316", "text": "Okay, then let's go to the area where terrorism is a very serious problem -- al Anbar province -- where your commanders say terrorism is a very serious problem.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044317", "text": "And it is also a real fact that the war in Iraq is clearly part of that war on terror, and where we proceed with it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044318", "text": "Both Houses of Congress agreed to going into this war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044319", "text": "It's been that way in every war and in every administration, but we'll get through it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044320", "text": "This administration clearly still believes Iran is interfering in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044321", "text": "You mean Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044322", "text": "Obviously, the war on terror and all the parameters of the war on terror are going to be very important, and we're going to talk about it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044323", "text": "And the government of President Musharraf has been working aggressively and cooperatively in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044324", "text": "You've got an all-volunteer army; first war in which we've had an all-volunteer army because people are committed.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000044325", "text": "This war is not limited to al Qaeda.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044326", "text": "He spoke about Mr. McNulty's resignation, and called it a significant step and evidence that a department really cannot function with the continued leadership or lack of leadership of Attorney General Gonzales.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000044327", "text": "What is of paramount importance is that Iran not be able to destabilize an entire region of the world, a region that needs stability, not additional instability.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044328", "text": "If this report about the IAEA report is accurate, it's clear that Iran continues to thumb its nose at the world, at the same time, the U.S. is now sitting down with Iranian officials in Baghdad.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044329", "text": "Hezbollah declared war on Israel, in effect; it fired rockets, it crossed over a border, it kidnapped soldiers.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044330", "text": "It declares war on a neighbor.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044331", "text": "It is central to winning the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044332", "text": "But the other thing is there is real -- you can't be a President in a time of war without soul-searching.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044333", "text": "You said that he gave support to the war in Iraq because they were promised the road map.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044334", "text": "During an interview with Mike Wallace on Sunday, the President of Iran seemed to imply that he was willing to engage in direct talks with the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044335", "text": "The important thing -- we've always talked about the importance of vigilance.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000044336", "text": "No, number one, there is not a civil war going on.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044337", "text": "Look, the war on terror takes many forms.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044338", "text": "Let me remind everybody that the war -- that terrorists spent years plotting September 11th.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044339", "text": "But it's also pretty clear that in the war on terror we have, in fact, been doing a lot of things pretty ably.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044340", "text": "This has been a war that has cost a lot of money -- $250 billion or more.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044341", "text": "Number one, people were reminded that the war on terror is real.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044342", "text": "The war on terror also persists on a daily basis, and people are trying to do damage here.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044343", "text": "So the fact is you have a government in Afghanistan that is standing up and trying to extend its control.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044344", "text": "I mean, this is a war on terrorism, right, and Hezbollah is --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044345", "text": "On South Korea, South Korean President Roh mentioned South Korea wanted to conclude the transfer of wartime command and control.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044346", "text": "One of the things you need in a time of war is a clear vision and a clear sense of determination.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044347", "text": "Nobody has been punished as far as this war is concerned.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044348", "text": "MR There's always concern about terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044349", "text": "The United States has been working aggressively on North Korea, we've had the resolution on Iran, we've had a resolution in the U.N. Security Council, both led by the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044350", "text": "The President says we're in a war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044351", "text": "A white flag, in short, means a white flag in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044352", "text": "MR I'll leave the military judgments to the Israeli military who are involved directly, or to members of Hezbollah, who are not speaking to us.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044353", "text": "One, ever since President came to office he has been fighting against global war on terrorism, and I still support him on his efforts, working hard on this.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044354", "text": "But the administration views Syria and Iran as having a hand in this crisis.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044355", "text": "You know, it's interesting because it is a democracy and they are permitted to disagree with us.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044356", "text": "I would maintain that the war on terror is a little bit broader and actually does jeopardize people throughout the region, and is an appropriate target for everybody to gather around.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044357", "text": "And second, as far as terrorism in the Middle East is concerned, first it was Hamas and Hezbollah and Syria, Iran, all these people are supporting terrorism against Israel, against also India and many of the countries and against the West.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044358", "text": "But Muslim dictators and Arab leaders have not come out to speak against terrorism or against terrorists.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044359", "text": "Well, he has decided not to eat normal food since the 7th.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000044360", "text": "They also agreed that Iran must give up its nuclear weapons ambitions and stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044361", "text": "If you listen to the speech, what happens in a democracy is that it's no longer -- a government is no longer a dictator's play thing, it, in fact, becomes a servant of the people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044362", "text": "And there is also the recognition that Iran and Syria play a role in supporting and funding Hezbollah.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044363", "text": "He also spoke about the global war on terror, about how fighting terror --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044364", "text": "And he understands how the war on terror operates far more personally than any of us.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044365", "text": "He came here because he's fighting a war on terror on his own soil.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044366", "text": "I would not characterize it as a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044367", "text": "Is this not a wider war for the United States that Israel -- Okay, I think -- no, it's an interesting point.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044368", "text": "What you have is a democracy in the Siniora government that we want to see survive and thrive.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044369", "text": "To the extent that this is part of the war on terror, we certainly have an interest in it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044370", "text": "In the war on terror we are facing not duly constituted armies, but terrorist groups who operate independently within the boundaries of otherwise sovereign nations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044371", "text": "Tony, Arab and Muslim nations never condemn any kind of terrorism against India, Israel or the West, and they have never condemned Osama bin Laden so far.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044372", "text": "I think Russia did fine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044373", "text": "Because obviously, Russia is a very critical partner in Iraq, in North Korea, dealing with Iran.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044374", "text": "Well, look, you've got a war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044375", "text": "But under the September 19th agreement of last year, North Korea has to come back to the table.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044376", "text": "The series of issues that separate Iran from the international community are not limited to the possibility of developing a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044377", "text": "Traditionally in this country in a time of war, members of the press have acknowledged that the Commander-in-Chief, in the exercise of his powers, sometimes has to do things secretly in order to protect the public.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044378", "text": "This is a different kind of war, and I think it creates a different kind of legal atmosphere.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044379", "text": "But the President -- so, the President's determination to prosecute and win the war on terror has not changed one bit by the Supreme Court opinion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044380", "text": "The conventions of war, typically, have defined enemy combatants as people wearing uniforms of a sovereign country, clearly marked, not committing acts of violence against innocents, and so on.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044381", "text": "Tony, on North Korea, the President took pains today to talk about cooperation with the Japanese on missile defense technology.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044382", "text": "The President talked today about shared values in democracy in the Middle East, for elected officials, whether -- regards of what other countries think of them.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044383", "text": "Tony, many experts now see the prospects of sanctions against North Korea to be pretty dim, and the diplomatic way forward is to have North Korea sign on to yet another moratorium on firing missiles and agree to six-party talks again.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044384", "text": "And certainly this is not a government that condones rape, murder, or the abuse of human rights.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000044385", "text": "You point out -- one of the most important things to remember is the situation in North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044386", "text": "Tony, as diplomacy is being sought by this administration and around the world as relates to North Korea, a senior administration official here said in recent weeks that all options are on the table.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044387", "text": "Because many have said the U.S. military is stretched too thin right now with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044388", "text": "And there are considerable resources deployed in Afghanistan and in other missions.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044389", "text": "The President would like the war to be over now.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044390", "text": "Everybody would like the war to be over now.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044391", "text": "They think the war is a mistake.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044392", "text": "The President always said that the war is more about one person.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044393", "text": "Let's not reduce the war on terror to the world's most wanted, because it's far broader than that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044394", "text": "This war on terror was started from Afghanistan by training of 25 or more million Afghanis for al Qeada and now terrorists went back -- they are in Pakistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044395", "text": "The President and everybody else have counseled that this is -- the war is still on and there are serious security challenges ahead.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044396", "text": "You mentioned earlier in the briefing the President's earlier statement, this is going to be a long war, a long struggle in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044397", "text": "And I'm curious, from the point of view of public opinion, polls suggest that the war is still pretty unpopular among Americans.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044398", "text": "We've seen parts of the war on terror being played out over the weekend in Canada.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044399", "text": "As far as public opinion, the President understands that war is a grueling thing, and that it does, in fact, wear on the patience of a people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044400", "text": "But on the war, I don't think there's necessarily a direct transfer, nor should there be.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044401", "text": "Look, war has its effects on Presidents, too.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044402", "text": "Just as the war in Iraq is escalating, and there are so many issues on the table, the President spent two days on this gay marriage.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044403", "text": "Today he's met with two heads of state, he's had a half-hour phone conversation with another head of state, he's meeting with a delegation from China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044404", "text": "Coincidently the same day when Dr. Rice spoke about Iran softening, or meeting with Iranians, and now Iranian President rejected her views and comments and all that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044405", "text": "But this movement also supported Iran now, that Iran has a right to --", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044406", "text": "Both of them have -- both of them have said that it is absolutely critical that Iran suspends its nuclear activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044407", "text": "What is a major factor in economic growth is continued investment on the part of Americans and businesses in an economy that continues to offer jobs to upwards of 140 million people.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044408", "text": "So that's -- so I would not characterize it as softening at all because the condition for further talks is exactly the same as it was two days ago; it is, Iran must suspend its nuclear activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044409", "text": "Well, we support democracy in Turkey and we've said that many times.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044410", "text": "Now, Helen, as to your question, nobody expects the war is going to be easy, and one of the things that is very obvious is that the President takes this very seriously, and so do the people in that room.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044411", "text": "I mean, the administration has been pretty clear there is no tolerance for corporate corruption.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000044412", "text": "And the President has made it very clear if Iran attacks Israel, the United States will come to the aid of Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044413", "text": "By their own admission, the new government says it's a porous border that they haven't -- -- cross it.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044414", "text": "The President emphasized some very important issues on education, on health, on good rule of law.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044415", "text": "We often make that technology available to U.S. manufacturers at very low cost.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000044416", "text": "China has made a national commitment to improve the energy efficiency of their economy by 20 percent by 2010.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044417", "text": "And you're already seeing a significant investment and more joint ventures between oil companies and farmers, between livestock producers and technology providers.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044418", "text": "And with this agreement India is supposed to have clean energy, and I agree that everyone should move forward.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044419", "text": "If you look up the dictionary definition of amnesty, it means total forgiveness of a crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000044420", "text": "But in addition to that, investment is extremely important not only because it's a significant part of GDP, but also because investment is the way that we create demand for labor.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044421", "text": "None of this addresses housing, which you keep saying is the most significant downwind.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000044422", "text": "And I think what you heard Ed say -- unemployment is at 5 percent.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000044423", "text": "But on your question, which is the civilian nuclear deal, the point I made when I was there is, this is something -- you know, India is a democracy; they've got to make the decisions that are in their best interest.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044424", "text": "For too long, North Korea has evaded sanctions and used the international financial system to facilitate funding for its weapons and mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044425", "text": "No aircraft in which a foreign person has an interest that has landed at a place in North Korea may land at a place in the United States within 180 days after departure from North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044426", "text": "But you think there will be military -- I'm not commenting one way or another.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044427", "text": "The case of Iran, the sanctions and unified sanctions is what brought Iran to the table.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044428", "text": "Dai Bingguo is the state councilor in China and is really the leading person on the security, foreign policy side.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044429", "text": "I mean, what the President is interested in and what the U.S. is interested in is keeping our healthy trade relationship with China going, but also making sure that that's a level playing field.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044430", "text": "What the military and what the President supported is investigations holding people to account.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044431", "text": "And with the CTB in place, China will certainly face a more daunting challenge in trying to take advantage of whatever gains they did or did not register in the course of nuclear espionage efforts.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044432", "text": "And the critics were quite simply proven wrong, because after the United States ratified the Chemical Weapons Treaty, Russia ratified.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044433", "text": "But practically speaking, the treaty does limit the ability of Russia and China to upgrade their nuclear forces.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044434", "text": "As you know, as the Prime Minister talked about this morning, the President did, as well, energy is one of the major issues here affecting India's future growth.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044435", "text": "India has not proliferated, unlike North Korea, which has been a major proliferator.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044436", "text": "Over the past decade we've seen a rapid growth in trade, labor productivity and foreign investment, and major reductions in foreign debt and inflation.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044437", "text": "Anyway, 18 months ago we had our last summit at NATO at Lisbon in which we agreed to set the stage to revitalize the Alliance, ready for the 21st century.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044438", "text": "And we agreed that NATO should be prepared to considered reciprocal reductions in non-strategic nuclear forces deployed in Europe.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044439", "text": "It means that NATO will now have an operationally meaningful ballistic missile defense mission.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044440", "text": "But we also affirmed that NATO will look at ways to reduce -- further reduce its reliance on nuclear weapons.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044441", "text": "I think with respect to Syria, I'd say a number of things.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044442", "text": "The decision that was made here is to enable NATO to have the command and control of national assets that individual countries can contribute.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044443", "text": "Just as the New START treaty is in the interests of all of NATO, it's in the interest of the American people, broadly speaking.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044444", "text": "The agreement -- the Strategic Concept said that NATO will remain a nuclear alliance.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044445", "text": "They're concerned that the military continues to be aggressive, and they're concerned that the government continues to be in denial.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044446", "text": "Anyone that deals with North Korea, any financial institution that deals with North Korea is going to be punished.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044447", "text": "If you're going to support North Korea, then you have to be prepared to be sanctioned as well.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044448", "text": "Just a quick one on the sanctions on Korea and then I have a question on Iran.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044449", "text": "So, first of all, with the sanctions on North Korea, it only impacts those that continue to do business with North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044450", "text": "And with the crisis at the border, we've been all but begging Congress to take action to close loopholes - some of them the same as the Obama administration.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044451", "text": "So the President believes that free trade benefits America's consumers and families, and that it's vital to generating jobs for America's workers, opening markets for American products and services, and in spurring economic growth.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044452", "text": "But in order to promote free trade, the United States has to manage the homefront and the international front.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044453", "text": "And for most workers, the average protection -- or their benefit for workers who are vested would be about 93 percent of their pension, if for some reason their company does go bankrupt.", "issue": "pension"}
{"id": "0000044454", "text": "I'm talking about support for trade in America, and I think this is part of a larger challenge.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044455", "text": "Because all of you have had endless words written about globalization, and the problem is that a lot of this change frightens people and it leads to anxiety.", "issue": "globalization"}
{"id": "0000044456", "text": "First of all, U.S. government funding for climate change science is a major part of the science -- the scientific results and scientific studies that underlie the entire Fourth Assessment, all three reports that preceded the Synthesis Report.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044457", "text": "Well, I would like to ask for after the embargo, then.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000044458", "text": "But ultimately, like I said, our goal is to get the science right, and when the scientists have an opinion on that, we listen to it very, very carefully.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044459", "text": "And so this is the culmination of the underlying science that has reinforced those leader commitments.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044460", "text": "He will note that the regime does use the embargo as a scapegoat, but that Presidents of both countries have understood that Cuba's suffering is a result of the system imposed on the Cuban people.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000044461", "text": "Well, because every other major econometric model predicted the same thing, that we thought that unemployment wouldn't go much above 8 percent.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000044462", "text": "We knew that the hole dug by the recession that was created by the policies of the last administration resulted in a loss, a real loss of somewhere between $2 trillion and $3 trillion in the economy.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000044463", "text": "And that's their price for doing business in a way that caused this damage.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000044464", "text": "First, we have an interest in the restoration of democracy within this hemisphere.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044465", "text": "Under President Biden's leadership and in partnership with the White House, we have worked hard at HHS to fight this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044466", "text": "Second, we are expanding our capacity in genomic surveillance so that we can readily detect variants of concern or interest.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000044467", "text": "As we continue to move forward from this pandemic, I'm confident that CDC and our public health partners are well positioned to use our surveillance and our data to lead the way.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044468", "text": "Decades of U.S. investment in fundamental biomedical research provided the foundation for the rapid design and development of COVID-19 vaccines.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044469", "text": "This ongoing research investment is not only helping us turn the corner on COVID-19 but also is vital to preparing us for future pandemics.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044470", "text": "Yeah, Sheryl, well, when one thinks of a pan-coronavirus vaccine, it really is going to be an incremental process.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044471", "text": "So, just in terms of travel, we have to look not only at the science with regard to transmission in masks but also the epidemiology and the frequency that we may encounter a variant of concern or a variant of interest in our travel corridors.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044472", "text": "After President Bush declared that the U.S. was at war with al Qaeda and its supporters, he made clear that our military would respond in al Qaeda attacks.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044473", "text": "And we are fighting this war accordingly.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044474", "text": "It's a traditional war, and the conventions are clear that they apply and that the treaties apply and that's the way the Defense Department has operated.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044475", "text": "For centuries, it has been undisputed that countries at war may detain the enemy for the duration of the hostilities.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044476", "text": "And we're fighting a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044477", "text": "We will wage and win this war on terrorism and defeat the terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044478", "text": "This virus knows no borders, and it's in our national interest to vaccinate the world and protect against possible new variants.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044479", "text": "Americans of every age and background are experiencing Long COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044480", "text": "We've made significant investments in mental healthcare, as well as substance-use prevention, treatment, and recovery support.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000044481", "text": "That is especially important for people dealing with COVID and COVID-related loss.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044482", "text": "Yeah, with regard to the vaccines for children, I believe you're referring to where are we with the six months to five-year vaccine approval or emergency use authorization.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044483", "text": "I want to reiterate, we are at war with this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044484", "text": "Reflective of our commitment to communicate openly and often about the latest science on variants today, CDC is releasing two studies in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, as well as a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association, on variants specifically.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044485", "text": "So we need to make a significant investment and ramp up testing across the country.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044486", "text": "Another reminder of the devastating impact of the pandemic has had on our country was brought into clear view yesterday in a report released by the CDC on the provisional life expectancy in the first half of 2020.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044487", "text": "We are at a critical point in this pandemic and on the cusp of having enough vaccine to protect every adult in the United States.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044488", "text": "The age range that is currently authorized for the SARS-CoV vaccination, as you well know, is 18 and older from Moderna, 16 for Pfizer, and 18 for J&J.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044489", "text": "This is truly a historic investment for CDC and an important step forward to help hard-hit communities turn the corner on this pandemic.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044490", "text": "When I became CDC Director, I promised that I would lead with science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044491", "text": "We also know that the trajectory of the pandemic varies across the United States, with some states and regions of the country, such as the Northeast and the Upper Midwest, are beginning to again see a significant rise in cases.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044492", "text": "We are at a critical point in this pandemic, a fork in the road, where we as a country must decide which path we are going to take.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044493", "text": "The vaccine was well-tolerated, and the Data and Safety Monitoring Board identified no specific safety concerns related to the vaccines.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044494", "text": "As I said on Monday, the decisions we make now will determine what the pandemic looks like in the days and weeks ahead.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044495", "text": "The President has stated his number one priority is to make sure we prioritize -- we prioritize the vaccination in this country.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044496", "text": "This significant increase in supply means by the end of May we will have enough vaccine for every adult in the U.S.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044497", "text": "If you look at the multi-system manifestations of COVID-19, they are multitudinous, the most important and common of which is the acute respiratory distress syndrome.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000044498", "text": "This is a very serious disease, which has already led to the death of about 550, 000 people in the United States.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044499", "text": "COVID ranked as the third leading cause of underlying death -- underlying cause of death after heart disease and cancer, with approximately 378, 000 COVID-19 deaths, accounting for roughly 11 percent of all deaths in the United States in 2020.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044500", "text": "But despite the suffering that COVID has caused, this pandemic has reminded us of a fundamental truth that we need each other.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044501", "text": "Saturday, as Andy, mentioned CDC reported that over 4 million doses of vaccine had been administered in 24 hours.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044502", "text": "The Illinois Department of Public Health and staff from a local public health department evaluated a COVID-19 outbreak associated with a bar in a rural area of Illinois.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000044503", "text": "People can be affected with the virus that causes COVID-19 through contact with contaminated surfaces and objects.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044504", "text": "Yeah, I think we need to acknowledge that this pandemic has taken its toll, both in terms of transmissibility and mortality, much more than the influenza.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044505", "text": "I mean, first of all, it's important to mention, anytime discussing the issue at this plant, that all of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine that's available in the U.S. has been authorized by the FDA.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044506", "text": "And we have not yet seen evidence of significant transmission of COVID-19 within schools when schools have fully implemented CDC's mitigation guidance.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000044507", "text": "The administration is taking mental health challenges related to the pandemic seriously.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044508", "text": "The mental health consequences of COVID are yet another reminder why people getting vaccinated is so important.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044509", "text": "Now, as more and more Americans gain access to the vaccine, I'm happy to share that vaccine confidence is rising across the country.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044510", "text": "And it's very important because we know that people above the age of 65 are at the highest risk of poor outcomes with COVID, so we absolutely want to make sure they're vaccinated.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044511", "text": "You know, in terms of the situation in states that are experiencing increases in states -- sorry, in cases -- you know, this pandemic has hit every state and every county hard.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044512", "text": "These disparities were not caused by the pandemic, but they were certainly exacerbated by them.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044513", "text": "There, we articulate that racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the wellbeing of millions of Americans and the health of our entire nation.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000044514", "text": "However, even if a vaccine fails to protect against infection, it often protects against serious disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044515", "text": "The President has always said that we are at war with the virus.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044516", "text": "As the President has said, the war against COVID-19 is far from won and we need everyone to do their part.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044517", "text": "This investment will give public health officials the chance to react more quickly to prevent and stop the spread.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044518", "text": "Today's investment also builds on the major investments in testing and genomic sequencing that we made earlier this year.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044519", "text": "We're doing everything we can to put this pandemic behind us, and we stand ready to support states.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044520", "text": "With this critical and substantial investment, CDC will fund the equipment, supplies, training, staffing, electronic infrastructure, partnerships, and innovation needed to build a robust national genomic-sequencing effort.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044521", "text": "And a vaccine seems like the best way not to battle their impulse to socialize.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044522", "text": "The AstraZeneca vaccine is highly safe and effective, and approved in many parts of the world.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044523", "text": "And since it is not approved for use in the U.S., we do not need to use the AstraZeneca vaccine here during the next few months.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044524", "text": "We regularly share with you the benefits of vaccination, the efficacy in preventing infection, and the decreases we see in hospitalizations and deaths.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044525", "text": "These are incredibly important benefits of vaccination, and there are so many more.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044526", "text": "So although the efficacy went down for moderate disease, there was good protection against serious disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044527", "text": "So despite the real difficulty that we're seeing in India, vaccination could be a very, very important antidote against this.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044528", "text": "You're talking about decades of fundamental science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044529", "text": "We are at war with this virus, and we're using every resource at our disposal to defeat it.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044530", "text": "But we're starting -- if the FDA does approve Johnson & Johnson as our third effective vaccine, it'll be distributed along the same lines as our current percentages.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044531", "text": "I got my vaccine, as did my family, and it a major, major transition for our lives.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044532", "text": "As the President has said, the pandemic knows no borders, and he has committed that the United States will become an arsenal of vaccines for other countries.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044533", "text": "Third, we've committed to sharing vaccines with other countries, including approximately 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine by the end of June.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044534", "text": "The vaccine -- the Pfizer vaccine is still authorized under emergency use authorization.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044535", "text": "Given the nature of the pandemic, FDA will move as expeditiously as possible without compromising its gold standard for safety.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044536", "text": "Today, Dr. Fauci will discuss the latest developments in science and Dr. Walensky will provide an important update on public health guidelines.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044537", "text": "Over the course of the pandemic, we are continuously gathering data and evidence to inform our guidance and decision making.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044538", "text": "We are winning the war on the virus, and we need you to help us finish the job.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044539", "text": "A vaccine may feel unnecessary.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044540", "text": "Many Americans have still not gotten vaccinated -- most of them younger, many of them not opposed to vaccination; they simply haven't prioritized it.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044541", "text": "As of today, we have administered over 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044542", "text": "It is our pledge to make sure that vaccination is easy and convenient for everyone.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044543", "text": "Today, Dr. Fauci will discuss the latest science, including an important announcement on next-generation treatments in our long-term fight against COVID-19.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044544", "text": "So, today, the Biden administration announced their investment of $3.2 billion from the American Rescue Plan as part of the COVID-19 Antiviral Development Strategy.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044545", "text": "We know that vaccination prevents the vast majority of serious COVID-19 illness, hospitalizations, and deaths.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044546", "text": "If you have questions about vaccination, please contact your health care provider, your state or local health department, or your local pharmacist.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044547", "text": "This new virus forced too many of our families to accept death as an outcome for too many of our loved ones, but now this should not be the case.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044548", "text": "There are many benefits of vaccination, including preventing serious illness -- illness and death, but also the kind of long-term effects associated with post-COVID conditions.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044549", "text": "We cannot get comfortable or give in to a false sense of security that the worst of the pandemic is behind us - not now; not when mass vaccination is so very close - when what we need to prevent this is truly imminent.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044550", "text": "Looking across the country, we have made incredible progress towards ending the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044551", "text": "Thanks to the President's whole-of-government response, we are further in our fight against the virus than anyone anticipated.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044552", "text": "Across the last few months, we've already nearly doubled the number of medical practices receiving vaccine, with tens of thousands of family doctors now administering shots.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044553", "text": "Vaccinating -- vaccination is our leading public health strategy to stop the Delta variant and bring case rates down in these counties.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044554", "text": "So we will continue to make vaccination easy and convenient.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044555", "text": "Not completing the series puts those partially vaccinated at risk of illness.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000044556", "text": "While fully vaccinated individuals have a high degree of protection against serious illness from COVID-19, including the Delta variant, unvaccinated Americans are not protected against serious illness, hospitalization, and death.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000044557", "text": "So, lastly, on international travel, you know, we've made, as we talked about today, important progress on the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044558", "text": "However, even if a vaccine does not completely protect against infection, it usually, if it's successful, protects against serious disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044559", "text": "In other words, you haven't prevented the disease caused by the virus or the pathogen in question.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044560", "text": "And so, if you go to the last slide, what we're really dealing with is effectiveness against serious disease leading to hospitalization and, in some cases, death.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044561", "text": "Last night, President Biden indicated that the vaccine may be approved for children under 12 as soon as August, September, or October.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044562", "text": "On the global front, as you know, we -- the President has committed to sharing 580 million doses of vaccine to the world.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044563", "text": "We're also working with states to encourage vaccinations through incentives, which have made a difference throughout the vaccination effort.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044564", "text": "While we desperately want to be done with this pandemic, COVID-19 is clearly not done with us, and so our battle must last a little longer.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044565", "text": "There are mandates at the VA for vaccination for their healthcare workers -- their doctors and their nurses and other healthcare providers who take care of our veterans.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044566", "text": "Vaccines work to prevent serious illness, hospitalization, and death.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000044567", "text": "Moderna requested an EUA for their mRNA-1273 vaccine for adolescents 12 to 17 a couple of months ago -- on June 10th of 2021 -- and that FDA decision is pending.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044568", "text": "Regarding the severity of illness, there was a couple of studies, mostly international, which suggested that Delta was more severe in adults, namely causing more relative percentage of hospitalization and more severe disease.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000044569", "text": "And all of these conversations that our Community Corps members have been having, even those that don't end in vaccination, are essential to this effort.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044570", "text": "These stories are the direct result of an ongoing investment in the power of local, trusted voices to reach fellow Americans.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044571", "text": "And even if you're young and relatively healthy and you're not worried about the consequences to yourself, you could pass the virus on to other people.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044572", "text": "Fauci and Dr. Nunez-Smith will discuss the recently authorized J&J vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044573", "text": "For those administering the vaccine, this vaccine is also easier to store and transport since it does not need to be kept in a freezer.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044574", "text": "This will make it easier to provide vaccine in community settings and mobile sites as supplies scale up.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044575", "text": "The most important thing you can do is to be ready to get the vaccine that is available to you.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044576", "text": "So when you do that, you make a major investment in resources.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044577", "text": "And we all share the belief that science and public health are what will help us protect our nation from this pandemic.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044578", "text": "Last week, in the slides, we saw from the CDC -- the CDC noted that Delta may cause more severe disease than older strains and cited some evidence from other countries.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044579", "text": "Our top priority has always been protecting people and their families with COVID -- from COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044580", "text": "The J&J vaccine was not administered in the U.S. until March of 2021, and we expect more data on J&J in the coming weeks.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044581", "text": "The science tells us that, our clinical judgment tells us that, and that was the collective decision of the top public health and medical experts in this administration.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044582", "text": "You can get benefits for disease, severity of disease, and then, ultimately, infection and transmission.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044583", "text": "The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus is highly transmissible, represents over 98 percent of COVID cases here in the United States, and is driving up infections, hospitalizations, and deaths across the country.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044584", "text": "In addition, four of the country's largest health systems, representing 315 hospitals and more than 30 million annual patient encounters, have just committed to making vaccination more convenient by vaccinating in primary care offices, hospital discharge points, and emergency departments.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044585", "text": "After all that, the Pfizer vaccine passed the FDA's rigorous review -- yet another reason to feel confident that getting vaccinated is the right thing to do.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044586", "text": "What people also -- it's so important that they understand is that the risks of getting COVID during pregnancy are significant.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044587", "text": "In the context of COVID, multiple studies have shown that there have been substantial increases in healthcare-associated infections during the pandemic, reversing key national progress made prior to 2020.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044588", "text": "The pandemic and these case studies have reminded us about the importance of preventing all infections, not just COVID.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044589", "text": "Building a better, more resilient health system is an investment we must make to battle COVID-19 and the next infectious disease.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044590", "text": "You know, one of the things we should realize is that the primary endpoint for the approval of the vaccine was clinically recognizable disease; it wasn't hospitalization.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044591", "text": "What I'd like to do over the next couple of minutes is make the point of the importance of vaccination from somewhat of a different standpoint than we usually do.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044592", "text": "First, COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective in preventing serious disease, hospitalizations, and deaths due to COVID-19.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044593", "text": "The benefits of vaccination far outweigh any risk to both mom and to baby.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044594", "text": "In Pennsylvania, Allegheny County is now requiring vaccination for its government employees.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044595", "text": "A vaccine could make a big difference for the health of our kids and for the peace of mind of parents everywhere.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044596", "text": "They will be guided by science and safety as they evaluate vaccine data for children.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044597", "text": "And as challenging as this pandemic has been, we must never lose sight of the fact that we have made progress in combatting COVID-19.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044598", "text": "Now we also have the promise of a vaccine for children under 12.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044599", "text": "So, as the President announced a few weeks ago, we made a significant investment last month to further scale rapid test.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044600", "text": "When one looks at therapeutics for COVID-19 -- and these are just some selected therapeutics -- the two major concepts are to target the virus or to moderate an aberrant host response.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044601", "text": "Higher vaccination rates make workplaces, schools, and communities safer; accelerate our path out of the pandemic; and strengthen our economy.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044602", "text": "During the pandemic, this same process has been implemented for major decisions -- from the initial vaccine authorization for Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J; to the authorization of our vaccine for children 12 to 16; and most recently, the Pfizer booster shot recommendations.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044603", "text": "All three COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States are extraordinarily safe, as demonstrated by the over 410 million vaccine doses already given.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044604", "text": "There may be some people who might prefer another vaccine over the one that they received, and the current CDC recommendations now make that possible.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044605", "text": "Suboptimal immune responses to wild-type virus promotes the generation of variants, and the lack of potency or redundancy of an immune response to protect and suppress variants is another issue of concern.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044606", "text": "This evaluation reinforces the importance of vaccination to protect young people and adolescents from COVID-19.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044607", "text": "We know millions of parents have been waiting for COVID-19 vaccine for kids in this age group, and should the FDA and CDC authorize the vaccine, we will be ready to get shots in arms.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044608", "text": "And many federal contractors have already stepped up to require vaccination, including most of the major airlines.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044609", "text": "On Friday, following a rigorous and independent scientific review, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 through 11.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044610", "text": "With the safety and effective -- efficacy results, the FDA authorized the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 on Friday.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044611", "text": "The thing that's most important is we have a vaccine for our adolescents -- that is the age demographic under consideration with Moderna -- and that is the Pfizer vaccine that has undergone that review.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044612", "text": "We know vaccines are the very best line of defense against the virus, so our top priority remains getting shots in arms.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044613", "text": "We have seen the ways this pandemic has threatened the social and emotional wellbeing of our children.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044614", "text": "Pediatric vaccination holds the promise of protection for our children, their families, and our communities.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044615", "text": "If you or your family members are not yet vaccinated, please consider the benefits of vaccination.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044616", "text": "Obviously, the decisions how to manage the virus are done at the local level, informed by community transmission, vaccination rate, and local capacity.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044617", "text": "As we have done throughout the pandemic, CDC is evaluating how to make international travel as safe as possible, including pre-departure testing closer to the time of flight and considerations around additional post-arrival testing and self-quarantines.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044618", "text": "As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are holding regular -- even daily -- calls with local, county, and state health officials and our public health partners.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044619", "text": "And as that science evolves, we will look at whether we need to update our definition of fully vaccinated.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044620", "text": "The last investment I want to talk about is our support for emergency medical response teams as we head into the winter and face the Omicron variant.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044621", "text": "As we've heard over and over from the doctors, vaccines remain our best line of defense against COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044622", "text": "Getting them vaccinated helps protect them from COVID-19 and the potentially serious outcomes from this infection.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000044623", "text": "COVID dramatically altered kids experiences at home, at school, and in the community during a crucial period of development.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044624", "text": "But two of the most important steps that we can take today are to end this pandemic and to create a culture that sees mental health as part of health and not something to be ashamed of.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044625", "text": "This vaccine was approved on Saturday.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044626", "text": "With the additional vaccine, more vaccine doses are making their ways into communities, making it possible for more people to get vaccinated and protected from COVID-19.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044627", "text": "Vaccination, boosting, and masking are especially critical for those who are most vulnerable, including seniors, pregnant people, and those who are immunocompromised.", "issue": "Vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044628", "text": "However, as I showed on a prior slide, considerable protection still maintains against severe disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044629", "text": "In terms of the definition of fully vaccinated, as you know, the definition right now is two doses of an mRNA vaccine or a single dose of the J&J vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044630", "text": "You know, we have the tools to fight this virus, including Omicron.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044631", "text": "Importantly, vaccination is another critical piece in our multi-layer prevention strategies to protect our children from COVID-19.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044632", "text": "Individuals who are unable or unwilling to receive an mRNA vaccine will continue to have access to Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044633", "text": "Whether or not we're going to change what the time interval between your last vaccination and your boost, we always have these on the table for discussion, but, right now, there has not been a decision on that.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044634", "text": "And we've already begun making this drug available to every state and territory.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000044635", "text": "Although every day we are following more and more studies emerging about the Omicron variant, early data on the vaccine is promising against Omicron, especially when people are boosted.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044636", "text": "Remdesivir is an already approved drug.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000044637", "text": "Two hundred and ten million Americans are fully vaccinated and therefore are protected from serious illness -- especially, as the doctors have said, if they've received a booster shot.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000044638", "text": "Although it's encouraging that Omicron appears to be causing less severe disease, it's important to remember that we are still facing a high overall burden of disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044639", "text": "And with the mixed news above, similar to other waves during the pandemic, our data continue to reinforce the critical importance of vaccination.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044640", "text": "A vaccine for children under five would mean we would have vaccines available for essentially all age groups in America.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044641", "text": "Vaccination and boosting will be critical in maintaining that downward trajectory, particularly when you're talking about the red curve of severe disease leading to hospitalization.", "issue": "Vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044642", "text": "As a result of all this progress and the tools we now have, we're moving toward a time when COVID isn't a crisis but is something we can protect against and treat.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044643", "text": "These numbers show us that the pandemic still remains a very serious situation with the most communities continuing to have high levels of COVID-19 transmission.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044644", "text": "However, we remain in the midst of a serious pandemic and still over 90 percent of our population is not fully vaccinated, though we are working hard to get there.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044645", "text": "So in light of everything that we've seen in the 84 days since our nation began administered COVID-19 vaccines, we're turning up the expectations for this vaccine program on all fronts.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044646", "text": "With serious disease, there's end-organ support that we've described in the past.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044647", "text": "Over the past 14 months, we've made tremendous progress in our fight against COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044648", "text": "The latest critical investment came with last year's American Rescue Plan.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044649", "text": "Our success in fighting COVID depends on our continued vigilance, our unwavering support for our scientists, our healthcare heroes, our essential workers, and our families navigating this COVID world.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044650", "text": "And we will be ready operationally if the vaccine -- and when the vaccine is authorized and recommended.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044651", "text": "If the FDA and CDC recommend these vaccines, this would mark an important moment in the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044652", "text": "Our teams are standing by and will immediately begin shipping vaccines across the country after -- should FDA authorize a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044653", "text": "We do know that COVID-19 illness can be serious for children and that, as parents, we are always looking to do what's right to protect them against harm.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000044654", "text": "And children who have previously had COVID-19 can also still benefit from a COVID-19 vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044655", "text": "The important point to emphasize is that this is a vaccine which is two doses four weeks apart.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044656", "text": "We can prevent serious illness.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000044657", "text": "Now, vaccines and treatments will help prevent serious illness and death.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000044658", "text": "We're encouraged that serious illness, hospitalizations, and deaths have remain relatively low based on the level of infections.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000044659", "text": "It substantially evades neutralizing antibodies induced in people by vaccination and infection.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044660", "text": "I think one thing a lot of people are concerned about -- in addition to, obviously, to death and hospitalization -- is long COVID, and there hasn't been any mention of it today.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000044661", "text": "If people stay up to date on their vaccines, if people get treated if they have a breakthrough infection, we can make deaths from this virus vanishingly rare.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044662", "text": "We will make the vaccine available at more than 20, 000 pharmacies across America.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044663", "text": "Throughout the pandemic, parents and caregivers have faced the challenging task of balancing childcare responsibilities with work responsibilities, often operating in virtual environment, with limited childcare options.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000044664", "text": "As we fight against centuries of structural inequities, we must be intentional about making vaccination easy and convenient for everyone, and key to that effort is having enough vaccinators to deliver shots in arms.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044665", "text": "We must remember terrorism is not a threat we face alone.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044666", "text": "We cannot win this war alone; we need our allies to win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044667", "text": "As you know, Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism with Hezbollah, and we do not have counterterrorism cooperation from the state of Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044668", "text": "There's no question, in any war, whether it's this war or historical wars, that our enemy seeks to take advantage for propaganda purposes of activities on the battlefield and actions on the battlefield.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044669", "text": "Well, to use the President's phrase, Iraq is the central front in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044670", "text": "As part of the alternative approach under the EUA, one fifth of the current vaccine does would be administered intradermally, rather than subcutaneously, as the vaccine was originally approved.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044671", "text": "You know, up until now, it's been critical that the rollout of vaccine be accompanied with a study of how well it's actually working.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044672", "text": "First of all, I want to point out there is no traditional assessment of this vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044673", "text": "Last week, FDA and CDC acted to allow JYNNEOS vaccine to be administered intradermally, increasing the number of doses in each vial of vaccine by up to fivefold.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044674", "text": "We rapidly scaled up supply of vaccine out in the field, and we are working to meet demand wherever we may find it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044675", "text": "Jurisdictions that are adopting the intradermal administration of vaccine and have used 90 percent of their current supply of vaccines will be able to order more doses.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044676", "text": "Now we have the manufacturer of the vaccine being critical of the federal government for the new vaccine implementation.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044677", "text": "As of today, 75 percent of jurisdictions are already applying intradermal administration of vaccine, and another 20 percent are working to move in that direction.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044678", "text": "Over the past three months, we have made significant strides in increasing supply of vaccine, accelerated its delivery, and are strengthening our preparedness for the future.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044679", "text": "Of the jurisdictions that have attested to this 85 percent utilization, since Monday, ASPR has shipped nearly 48, 000 vials of vaccine, which represents up to 240, 000 doses.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044680", "text": "Looking ahead, we anticipate another 150, 000 vials of vaccine from our supplier, which represents up to 750, 000 doses, and all coming in as early as late September.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044681", "text": "States, territories, and large local jurisdictions in the United States have stepped up in the face of this outbreak and agreed to report secure, protected data about monkeypox vaccine administration in their jurisdictions to the CDC.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000044682", "text": "Yeah, I think that's the key part, is the vaccine is available.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044683", "text": "We want to administer as much vaccine as we can to reach the most at-risk population.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044684", "text": "To date, we have allocated approximately 1.1 million vials of JYNNEOS vaccine to states and jurisdictions.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044685", "text": "I know our state officials advocated for more vaccine -- vaccines, you know, as far back as July.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044686", "text": "You can discuss the pool of individuals who might benefit from the vaccine -- that can be any large number of different types of populations.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044687", "text": "To date, over 540, 000 doses of vaccine have been administered across the 39 jurisdictions reporting data.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044688", "text": "As a reminder, JYNNEOS is a two-dose vaccine and it is important to receive the second dose in the series to have the best protection against monkeypox, which current data suggest occurs 14 days after that second dose.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044689", "text": "It is critical that education, vaccinations, testing, and treatment are equally accessible to all populations, but especially those most affected by the most -- most affected by this outbreak.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044690", "text": "So we have vigilance for that with our surveillance, and I think CDC can speak to that and Dr. Walensky can speak to that.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000044691", "text": "People at highest potential for monkeypox exposure, those who are now eligible -- are now eligible for monkeypox vaccine should make an appointment to get vaccinated and make sure they receive both doses in this vaccine series.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000044692", "text": "Lastly, anxiety and other mental health issues might also be a barrier to accessing vaccination and testing services.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000044693", "text": "Well, I think he met with the authorities in China today.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044694", "text": "I think you'll hear him speak to energy and climate change as well.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044695", "text": "We have robust cooperation with Japan on clean energy -- I think we put out a fact sheet on that tonight as well -- and we're advancing partnerships on energy with other countries in the region.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044696", "text": "Secondly, your question specifically, South Korea very recently provided a pretty robust additional commitment to Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044697", "text": "Robert, the President said the decision on Afghanistan will come soon and will be fully transparent.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044698", "text": "But the key point here is that the relationship with Russia -- and just as we've been lockstep with them on the negotiation path, we're also going to do that as we move to this other path.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044699", "text": "North Korea is one of the most despotic, miserable places left on the Earth.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044700", "text": "And South Korea faces threats from the North and we want to work together on how to deal with these threats.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044701", "text": "However, the President has made clear in this situation with North Korea that he is pursuing a diplomatic course.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044702", "text": "The timing of the tax cut in 2001 helped bring the economy out of the recession of early 2001, and the economy has been growing slowly since then.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000044703", "text": "Former President Sadat was a hero who emerged out of war with Israel to live for peace while he lived.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044704", "text": "Well, clearly, if anybody can play a role in fighting terrorism, it is important for them, no matter where they are, to play that role.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044705", "text": "Well, we've talked about this before, what's the definition of winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044706", "text": "And he will continue to pursue the war against terror relentlessly.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044707", "text": "And in this long battle against terrorism, the United States has been very successful in rounding up and arresting such prominent leaders of the al Qaeda organization as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, many of the other top operators around the world.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044708", "text": "And those conditions were led by, principally, the recession, the large spending increases that related from the attacks on our country, and then, of course, the expenditures on the war.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000044709", "text": "The huge generosity of the American people that funds many initiatives around the world that increase the health of people around the world, that increase the education of people around the world, that lead to the betterment of people around the world.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044710", "text": "On the credible evidence that we did know about, whatever amount of that there was, I assume that our intelligence capabilities before the war are the same as they were -- as they are now.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044711", "text": "Governor Dean has said that it's a threat to democracy for any one presidential candidate to have two or three times more money to get his or her message out than any other candidate.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044712", "text": "Some of the issues that the airline industry brought to the attention of policymakers were their fear that a war would lead to a spike-up in the price of fuel oil, which is a large component of the cost that airlines incur.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044713", "text": "One of the criticisms of this administration is that the rationale for the war has seemed to change over time.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044714", "text": "And the important thing is that Turkey has not taken any action, they have not crossed the border, and they continue to not cross the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044715", "text": "The U.S. military will effectively continue to fight a war that we're in the middle of.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044716", "text": "We're still fighting a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044717", "text": "It's important that Syria receive it.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044718", "text": "I'm not saying that the war is over.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044719", "text": "And the message to all nations, whether it's Syria or anybody else, is that it's important to obey the sanctions -- not to provide military equipment or anything that is banned to the government of Iraq.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044720", "text": "So the war -- you're not ready to say the war is over yet.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044721", "text": "Ari, yesterday, when the President was asked about the vital -- to describe the vital role that he envisioned for the U.N. in a postwar Iraq, he mentioned food and medicine and the delivery of humanitarian relief.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000044722", "text": "As a result of the military operation, much of that infrastructure remains in place.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000044723", "text": "And you said the military is running Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044724", "text": "The United Nations has its oil-for-food program, where they make contracting decisions about who is delivering the food and the money is then received in an United Nations escrow account.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000044725", "text": "And journalists received a warning prior to the war about what a dangerous place it was, and every loss of life is regrettable.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044726", "text": "The dangers can come from organized bands fighting our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044727", "text": "This is symptomatic of the dictatorship of the Cuban regime, and we condemn it.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000044728", "text": "As you know, there were meetings even before the war began in Northern Iraq with free Iraqis.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044729", "text": "And DOD is very good in the middle of war not only of fighting and winning a war, but in providing information for people who have a thirst for information.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044730", "text": "Ari, prior to the war, many of the opponents said that the danger of going to war would be that the attitudes toward the United States around the world would seriously deteriorate.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044731", "text": "The fact of the matter is we are still in a war, and not everything about the war is yet known.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044732", "text": "They talked about North Korea, of course, and agreed that the September statement of principles in the Beijing six-party talks has to be fully implemented, and that its core is the complete elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons and nuclear programs.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044733", "text": "They compared notes about the situation in North Korea, and about the condition of the North Korea people, and agreed that they would seek ways to improve the condition for the people of the North.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044734", "text": "He'll be seeing the President of Russia tomorrow morning, and he'll be meeting with a number of Western Hemisphere leaders tomorrow, as well.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044735", "text": "And I think for the Republic of Korea, it's a process -- the six-party talks diplomacy -- that has great advantage because they're at the table helping to shape the result.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044736", "text": "There was -- they talked about the war on terror and recent progress in the war on terror, the challenged posed by avian flu, and a little discussion about Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044737", "text": "We need to deal with the issue of terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044738", "text": "That's important to ensure the world that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044739", "text": "Tomorrow the President will be giving a significant speech on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044740", "text": "He will also talk about the stakes involved in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044741", "text": "We think that the constitution that has been drafted is a strong constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000044742", "text": "Special operations has the -- in the war against terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044743", "text": "Scott, with all due respect, much of this talk about progress in the war in Iraq seems to be so much spin on the part of the administration.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044744", "text": "Saudi Arabia has provided good cooperation with us on the war on terrorism, but there is more that can be done.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044745", "text": "Scott, Russia said today, they called for a greater, more stringent IAEA control over nuclear facilities in Iran.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044746", "text": "This is a global war that requires a global response.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044747", "text": "We will -- the best way to win the war on terrorism is to go after the killers where they are, find them and bring them to justice.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044748", "text": "But there's no question the U.N. will play an important role.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044749", "text": "What do we need from the U.N. in the way of an additional mandate, a broadened mandate for the Secretary General to do things.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044750", "text": "And we're discussing now what authority should be in there, what's the role of the U.N.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044751", "text": "Right now if you're a -- got a typical mortgage, but the value of your house price has declined, you're not able to take advantage of lower interest rates.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000044752", "text": "And let's be clear, housing has been a significant part of initiating the economic slide that we're in, and will be a key part of getting us out.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000044753", "text": "And so the signing yesterday of the recovery plan, which will create about 3.5 million jobs, is a critical piece of getting housing back on track by getting people back to work.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000044754", "text": "Again, that includes sectors like technology where we've continued to urge the Cuban government to increase access to the Internet.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000044755", "text": "The notion that we all benefit when people are lifted out of poverty and there's not the challenge of extreme inequality.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000044756", "text": "Much of the activity that we've pursued with respect to supporting forces that are making progress against ISIL on the ground has taken place in eastern and northern Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044757", "text": "Because obviously there are many, many individuals in Syria who want to fight the regime.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044758", "text": "We certainly do believe that innovation on clean energy is a key aspect of our strategy going forward and is something the President will emphasize and other leaders will emphasize in Paris on the first day.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044759", "text": "With respect to Russia, again, I think you saw a unified position among the United States and France that was not new today.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044760", "text": "And also, Russia can play a constructive role by supporting a transition in which Assad relinquishes power as a part of the timeline that was set in Vienna.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044761", "text": "We're able to wage war against ISIL and pursue an international climate agreement.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044762", "text": "He's talked to the leaders of not just China and India, but also South Africa and others about these efforts.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044763", "text": "And it's not simply a question of the United States coming to the table, it's a question of whether China and India and Brazil and other major emitters are a part of this framework.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044764", "text": "We understand that they have concerns about what Iran could do as their economy may perhaps improve along with sanctions relief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044765", "text": "Since the first summit in April of 2010, President Obama and more than 50 world leaders have been working together to prevent nuclear terrorism, to counter nuclear smuggling, and to enhance nuclear security through the summit process.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044766", "text": "And Iran was the country, in 2009, that we were most concerned about in terms of the continued spread of nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044767", "text": "Over lunch, the leaders of the U.N. and the IAEA and Interpol will offer their views on how their institutions can enhance nuclear security.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044768", "text": "For example, I think bilateral cooperation with China right now is exceptionally broad and deep on issues ranging from climate to nuclear security to development, public health, Iran and Afghanistan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044769", "text": "I'd just say on North Korea that China has -- look, you would not have the sanctions that were passed through the U.N. Security Council without China's cooperation and support.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044770", "text": "In fact, we've seen Iran comply with all of their major commitments under the Joint Conference Plan of Action.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044771", "text": "And then I should add that includes resolving the Syrian civil war in a matter that leads to the departure of Bashar al Assad and a transition to a new government in Syria.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044772", "text": "The President goes to the U.N. focused on a number of affirmative priorities that are represented in this schedule.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044773", "text": "Our commitment to development and the goal of eradicating extreme poverty is going to be on display as we attend the Sustainable Development Goals Summit meeting.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000044774", "text": "And this session at the U.N. is an important opportunity for nations to come together once more before the Paris discussions at the conclusion of the year where we're aiming to reach a global agreement to combat climate change.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044775", "text": "And the situation in Ukraine continues to be of significant concern, and our support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine will be front and center throughout our discussions, particularly with President Putin.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044776", "text": "The two agenda items that we will focus on in that summit are the continuing situation in Ukraine, and, of course, the new issues raised by Russia's involvement in Syria.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044777", "text": "And we see the U.N. this year as a key milestone on the pathway to Paris.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044778", "text": "The administration has repeatedly said that Russia's intentions in Syria remain unclear.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044779", "text": "Russia is continuing to support Assad.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044780", "text": "And clearly any successful political resolution would have to benefit from the support of Russia and the United States and the countries in the region, and of course, importantly, the Syrian people.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044781", "text": "But in the Iranian nuclear issue, Russia did follow through on its commitments and played a constructive role.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044782", "text": "And we think that we can double that trade again over the next 10 years.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044783", "text": "And so as part of it, I think the dialogue on energy and on the economy generally will be really important.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044784", "text": "We continue to recognize that this long war will only end through a political negotiation between the Afghan government and the Taliban to work out terms of peace and reconciliation.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044785", "text": "They can accept the government of Afghanistan's invitation to engage in a peace process and ultimately become part of the political system of a sovereign, unified Afghanistan, which would be supported by the international community.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044786", "text": "We took a look at the dynamic security environment in Afghanistan, we took a look at the Afghan national security forces' capabilities and where they were, and we also looked at in the short term their performance over the last two fighting seasons.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044787", "text": "And we believe that because of our presence in Afghanistan that we've been able to put an unprecedented amount of pressure on al Qaeda in South Asia and have significantly degraded their leadership ranks and their operational capacity.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044788", "text": "And secondly, if you could address the CT mission and tell us to what extent the U.S. military will be at war with the Taliban in the months ahead.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044789", "text": "He was sentenced in 2013 to eight years in prison, so therefore his sentence was running until 2021, and really no hope of ever finding a release valve.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000044790", "text": "So what we were able to do over these 14 months was really narrow the scope of issues, focus on the fact that Iran did have some concerns about people detained in our system.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044791", "text": "One left Iran on a civilian plane yesterday, so -- I think is a very significant breakthrough most importantly for our fellow citizens and their families.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044792", "text": "We've also agreed to continue a dialogue with Iran through multiple channels for missing persons, in particularly for Bob Levinson.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044793", "text": "And as my colleague mentioned at the top, we've really had three tracks of sustained engagement with Iran going on for decades.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044794", "text": "And the main -- frankly, the main forum for that will be the Vienna process related to Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044795", "text": "What is happening at the border is a direct result of a broken immigration system that has been ignored for far too long.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044796", "text": "The administration is also cracking down on criminal organizations and fighting corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000044797", "text": "Secondly, we also believe that these steps are important because Russia is not going to stop.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044798", "text": "The officials who were sanctioned were participating in malicious cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure and interfering in our democratic process.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000044799", "text": "On your first question, look, we don't -- we actually, as you know, publicly put out the assessment that Russia was interfering in our election in early October.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044800", "text": "They didn't do that -- they still deny that they are intervening in eastern Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044801", "text": "What we've seen in general with their malicious cyber activity has targeted our critical infrastructure beyond even our election process.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000044802", "text": "And they approved it based on science, peer review, and a consensus within the medical professional community that it is safe and effective.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044803", "text": "The FDA approved it 20 years ago based on science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044804", "text": "And we believe that the success of Liberia's democracy and its people is critical to the future of the broader region.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044805", "text": "And again, we believe very strongly that education and the empowerment of young people is going to be critical to a region that has known so much turmoil, particularly given the enormous youth populations in those countries.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044806", "text": "While Morocco ranks one of the lowest countries in the Arab world for overall education, their girls' education rates are well below the regional averages.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044807", "text": "Qatar's Foreign Minister participated in the talks on Syria that Secretary Kerry led today in Vienna.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044808", "text": "And young woman are nearly 90 percent more likely not to attend secondary school if they are in a conflict area than their counterparts in areas not affected by conflict.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000044809", "text": "And the U.N. is overseeing this with the Iraqi government, and we think this is going to be an effective mechanism to flush resources in areas once they're cleared of ISIL.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044810", "text": "I would expect they would talk about the global war on terrorism, the overseas basing issues, international peacekeeping and also talk about lessons of the Iraqi Freedom operation.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044811", "text": "We're quite concerned now about this H5N1 virus as scientists suggest that it could, in fact, mutate into a virus of major concern.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000044812", "text": "They talked about the expansion of NATO and how pleased all the Baltic nations were and honored to be part of the expanded NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044813", "text": "I mean, he has been focused on the war on Iraq while, at the same time, winning the war on terror and capturing terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044814", "text": "They did talk about, globally, the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044815", "text": "The issue of NATO expansion, obviously that's something that Russia is coming to terms with.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044816", "text": "I think it's fair to say that Russia doesn't see it precisely the same way as America and NATO does.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044817", "text": "Ari, the person in the Canadian government who called the President a moron submitted a resignation to Jean Chretien and he refused to accept it.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000044818", "text": "And the new threats involve terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000044819", "text": "I will say that the war on terrorism continues to have successes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044820", "text": "Of course, Russia voted with the Security Council for a statement about the importance of Iraq disarming.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044821", "text": "The President has made clear that we will fight the war on terrorism wherever we need to fight the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044822", "text": "And the President has made clear that in this war on terrorism it is important to bring the leaders of al Qaeda to justice.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044823", "text": "Israel is a democracy, and Israel handles its democratic decisions as any good democracy should.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044824", "text": "He said in an interview that after any war against Iraq that the U.S. should start leaning on Iran, one of the other members of the axis of evil.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044825", "text": "The President's views on Iran are well known.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044826", "text": "MR There's no question that North Korea must dismantle.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044827", "text": "North Korea has an interest to make certain that the regional neighbors don't view North Korean actions with alarm.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044828", "text": "Congressional action alone doesn't protect a pension, but congressional action gives authority to the executive branch to take the steps necessary to protect people's pensions.", "issue": "pension"}
{"id": "0000044829", "text": "And the President will talk about the ongoing war on terror tonight in his speech, because it is ongoing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044830", "text": "You know, during the war with Iraq he was having his --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044831", "text": "He said, the best way to fight recession is more jobs.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000044832", "text": "MR Europe has blocked approval of safe biotech food for five years.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000044833", "text": "And then the board called on Iran to take two specific concrete steps.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044834", "text": "Iran did not support the board.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044835", "text": "All nations of the IAEA supported this; Iran did not.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044836", "text": "Clearly, the United States and the international community share the same concerns about Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044837", "text": "The President's hope is that the future of Iran will be decided by the Iranian people.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044838", "text": "The world's protocols for fighting against proliferation are important and that's why Iran needs to comply.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044839", "text": "The President continues to think unemployment is too high, and that's why he's focused, as he will today, on the jobs package and on growth and on recovery.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000044840", "text": "And the American military is there in a dangerous mission to help bring stability to the Iraqi people, and they will remain dedicated to achieving that mission.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044841", "text": "Under NATO, tho -- Lord Robertson indicated he was still willing not just assisting Poland, but willing to go in with a sizable force if Washington would ask.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044842", "text": "I think we've had conversations with NATO about it.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044843", "text": "The United States has said it will talk to North Korea, and this is a reflection of the fact that the problems that North Korea has created for itself are problems that confront the international community and the world.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044844", "text": "Along those lines, another pair of parties, over the weekend, Russia forged an economic cooperation agreement with Iraq.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044845", "text": "Well, I think the U.N. understands how important it is for them to show their determination to enforce their own resolutions.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044846", "text": "The President is asking for the U.N. to express itself in the forms of resolutions that will put teeth behind the resolutions they passed in the past.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044847", "text": "The message today seemed to be that war is inevitable.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044848", "text": "He talked about the war on Iraq -- at war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044849", "text": "He talked about the prospects for war in Iraq and a number of other issues, including domestic.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044850", "text": "North Korea in 1994 entered into a quid pro quo, and it's inappropriate for North Korea to say that, we will walk away from our quid and ask for more quo.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044851", "text": "Education is a vital issue in Florida, and it's important for people to be knowledgeable about education in Florida if they're going to run for office.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000044852", "text": "China has no interest in seeing a nuclearized Korean Peninsula.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044853", "text": "We will continue to work with Russia on Iraq and on the U.N., but this is a serious issue for Russia, for the Russian people, and the President has stressed his support and solidarity with the Russian people and the Russian government this morning.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044854", "text": "We'll see what, if anything, Russia asks for.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044855", "text": "But the purpose of the President's call was to offer support in a difficult time for Russia; it's a serious matter.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044856", "text": "And their discussions will include the situation in North Korea, which presents serious issues to the Japanese people.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044857", "text": "Japan, of course, is helping out in building the road in Afghanistan linking three major Afghani cities.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044858", "text": "President Karzai, of course, and the Secretary General of NATO, he's going to meet with before the summit because it's important for them to get aligned as we head into these discussions on Afghanistan.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044859", "text": "The only thing that I can say about Iran and links to terrorism is we do have longstanding concerns about Iran's links to terrorism, as well as the al Qaeda presence in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044860", "text": "We've conveyed those concerns to Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044861", "text": "We call on the government of Ukraine to respect the will of the Ukranian people and we urge all Ukrainians to resolve the situation through peaceful means.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044862", "text": "Any agreement with -- on Iran, IAEA and Iran, it talks about putting all options on the table.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044863", "text": "Well, Syria -- we have made clear what Syria needs to do.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044864", "text": "And for three days, she worked with other agency representatives to deliver food and supplies to families who were returning to their damaged homes.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000044865", "text": "I think the total value of all the infrastructure on the top of these mountain peaks is $2 billion, that's b, billion.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000044866", "text": "People have said that the war in Iraq has spawned more -- recruited more members for al Qaeda and other groups.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044867", "text": "There's no evidence that the war in Iraq did anything to stop al Qaeda from plotting terrorist attacks here in the U.S. MS.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044868", "text": "With regard to the talks in North Korea, I think -- we welcome the multi-national talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044869", "text": "AP is saying that North Korea has both warned that it will declare itself a nuclear state and that it will conduct a nuclear test.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044870", "text": "Well, the U.N. has a vital role to play.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044871", "text": "He has worked -- they have a fantastic record of fighting corruption in government and in keeping gang violence off our streets.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000044872", "text": "As we've said before, Pakistan is an important partner in the war on terror and a friend to the United States.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044873", "text": "Yes, the President is going to continue to talk about the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044874", "text": "Obviously, the war on terror is something that they have to talk about.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044875", "text": "And so by breaking it up this way, you can address the different issues over a period of time when America is, rightly, thinking about the global war on terror, and especially today, he focused on the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044876", "text": "Tomorrow the President will kick off a series of several speeches on the global war on terror, that will go through his speech at the United Nations General Assembly meeting on September 19th.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044877", "text": "The two leaders also discussed diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapon capability.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044878", "text": "I don't think it's -- it's not global war on terror or the economy or anything like that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044879", "text": "But clearly housing has been the other part of the headwinds that we have faced over the last year.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000044880", "text": "They agreed that the war on terror was one that we needed to fight together because the enemy is going not after -- not just after Pakistanis, but the United States as well.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044881", "text": "But one of the major -- well, the driving engine of our economy is energy, and they have not acted on that.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044882", "text": "No, the overall issue of counterterrorism cooperation between our military and our intelligence services was discussed.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044883", "text": "And when it comes to what he will do in China, I think that no one should question this President's commitment to human rights and democracy and freedom.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044884", "text": "That he fully understands the global war on terror, and keeping America safe.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044885", "text": "Today we must do the same in Afghanistan and Iraq, and by helping these young democracies grow in freedom and prosperity we will once again reap the benefits in generations of security and peace.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044886", "text": "We remain concerned that Iran continues to defy the international community when it comes to their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044887", "text": "North Korea has been open in saying that it faces a major shortfall in food supplies.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044888", "text": "The President thinks that the government is certainly diverting food to the military and not giving it to its people.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000044889", "text": "And in particular for this summit, one of the things they'll be talking about is Membership Action Plan potential for Ukraine and Georgia, as well as membership for the MAC countries, also known as Macedonia, Albania and Croatia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044890", "text": "Obviously, Russia is very happy and excited about hosting the Winter Olympics.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044891", "text": "He will talk about how democracy and advancing freedom is the core of our country's foreign policy, and that he believes it is in our interest to have security through democracies.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044892", "text": "In addition, he will talk about Iran briefly in the speech, Lebanon, the need to continue to fight extremists and radicals, the importance of education and trade.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044893", "text": "Those reforms included a constitution passed by national referendum that provides for a bicameral legislature and separation of powers.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000044894", "text": "Maybe they don't want the war to keep running.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044895", "text": "Iran is saying that they've accepted some kind of invitation to the talk to the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044896", "text": "I think there's a lot of science out there.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000044897", "text": "They will discuss the situation in Afghanistan and the importance of success in Afghanistan as it relates to the war on terror.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044898", "text": "Pakistan has certainly been on a path to democracy, with an increase in civil society, press freedoms, and improved -- moving towards a market economy, and that we are urging them to get back on that path.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044899", "text": "Do you have any reaction to the new report -- it was in the Post -- about the war cost $20, 000 so far for American families, and $1.5 trillion more -- MS.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044900", "text": "He also taped the weekly radio address; the topic is Afghanistan and Pakistan working together to fight extremism, and increasingly good results out of the surge in Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044901", "text": "Beyond that, we're going to have areas in regards to free trade -- we want those free trade agreements with Colombia and Peru and South Korea, as well as the Doha round, to be completed.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044902", "text": "Look, I think it's no secret that Iran is a state sponsor of terror.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044903", "text": "And in order to have a good trade deal, you need to have free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000044904", "text": "Obviously, he's a major supporter of the war on terror, including troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044905", "text": "What we do all agree on is that Iran must halt its enrichment and reprocessing activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044906", "text": "Just so we're clear, the President didn't bring up the resignation.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000044907", "text": "Japan is also the third largest contributor in Afghanistan, with an overall commitment of $1.45 billion since 2002, to do such things as build roads and airports and boost health and educational services.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044908", "text": "This is a complex disease, it's been around for thousands of years and I think today what we're seeing is more funding, improved leadership and the science and the commitment to move in that direction.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000044909", "text": "But China is one of the most important relationships that we have in the United States, and the speech is being given on the eve of his trip there, his last trip to Asia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044910", "text": "South Korea has demonstrated in Iraq, by the deployment of the Zaitun brigade, that they can play a very, very important role outside of their region, securing peace.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044911", "text": "There is concern about the military and the police being full of militia members.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000044912", "text": "There is war against civilians.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044913", "text": "There is a war against Iraqi people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044914", "text": "He will make a statement on global war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044915", "text": "I think that we've encouraged foreign investment in the country, but obviously we are concerned about negative influence from Iran in the country.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044916", "text": "But we are -- as for the constitution, it's not allowed for Iraq -- for the Iraqi government to have any activities, of any organization, which are threat the neighbors.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000044917", "text": "Clearly, the price of gas is too high for Americans, and it's causing a hardship for many families of low income.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000044918", "text": "The first is that standard health information technology will be made a very high priority in our procurement.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000044919", "text": "Now, as we focus on stewardship and trails and eco systems of the parks, the other thing the President was going to highlight and will highlight in his remarks, is the issue of air pollution.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000044920", "text": "Now, I say major ones -- they are the major remaining sources of pollution.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000044921", "text": "Prime Minister Brown told the President that the defense minister today would announce an increase in both troops and equipment in Afghanistan; that's been very welcome.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044922", "text": "And the point will be that if Iran -- the Iranian regime does not change policy and accept the offer that has been tendered to them, it will be very clear from the EU's statement this afternoon that they will face new sanctions on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044923", "text": "I don't -- I think the process in Iran is pretty well said.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044924", "text": "They have made progress on agriculture.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000044925", "text": "And of course we'll be dealing with the issue of offering for Ukraine and Georgia a prospect for a movement towards an ultimate membership in NATO.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044926", "text": "And secondly, working with Russia, so this is something that might be done between Europe, the United States and Russia cooperatively against missile threats coming from the Middle East that potentially threaten all of us.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044927", "text": "So these two leaders -- you know, this is one of the marvels of modern technology and the impact it has on diplomacy.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000044928", "text": "And in the middle of this, of course, summer of '06, you have the war between Hezbollah and Israel waged in southern Lebanon -- not the most auspicious time, obviously, for a negotiation between the Israelis and Palestinians on a peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044929", "text": "We know that Iran is getting much more involved in Afghanistan supporting the Taliban.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044930", "text": "This is the flow of FEMA dollars to the state and down into the localities to make certain that infrastructure, critical infrastructure is rebuilt.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000044931", "text": "Much of the things that you see on the ground there in terms of what has been done so far is infrastructure, critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000044932", "text": "And they don't have the infrastructure of laws and civil society that make it easier to build an economy that can support that very expensive infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000044933", "text": "A lot of the Afghan population is not educated; men and women were denied an education through -- during times of war when they didn't have a chance to be educated.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000044934", "text": "He was certainly a wonderful host for Afghanistan and a strong supporter of the international effort in Afghanistan by hosting the conference in Paris.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044935", "text": "They also, with Afghanistan, provide the refueling operation for Operation Enduring Freedom, and that is a major contribution as well to the war on terror.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044936", "text": "On Iran, they reiterated the importance of Iran not acquiring a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044937", "text": "But, you know, most of the governments -- the Bucharest Summit was very favorable in terms of Afghanistan, it was a very positive summit in that respect, and the meeting that we had as part of that, on Afghanistan, was very positive.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044938", "text": "The U.S. administration unequivocally supports international investment in the United States, and is equally committed to securing fair, equitable and non-discriminatory treatment for U.S. investment abroad.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044939", "text": "They talked about Afghanistan, the commitment that President Sarkozy has made with additional forces to go to Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044940", "text": "The suspicion is that it was some sort of bug, probably more viral in nature and highly unlikely to be anything related to food or anything he ate -- just think it's something that may be running through the system.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000044941", "text": "Obviously, we're getting closer to the U.S. border with Mexico, but all of these issues really do appear in each and every one of the meetings we're having.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044942", "text": "And I think it's helpful that NATO was able to send this kind of a message.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044943", "text": "That's the first time NATO has said this; this is an important message to those countries.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044944", "text": "I think we've seen Iran and countries like Lebanon, for instance, and others, seek to exploit opportunities for their own interests.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044945", "text": "Turkey, of course, as a member of NATO is uniquely aware of the command and control capabilities that exist within NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044946", "text": "MR We've always -- we continue to believe that NATO will have an important role to play in terms of its unique capabilities in command and control.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000044947", "text": "In all cases, our combat mission here in Afghanistan would come to a conclusion at the end of 2014 consistent with our transition plan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044948", "text": "And I think he'll be talking about Afghanistan in that context.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044949", "text": "Well, again, we are -- precisely because it's a political season in Afghanistan, we were mindful about the potential disruptions that could come from a presidential trip into Kabul.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044950", "text": "So much of what we did in the first term was winding down the war in Iraq, putting Afghanistan on a plan to wind down the war, focusing on al Qaeda core.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044951", "text": "The President reaffirmed America's commitment to democracy in both Egypt and Tunisia, as well as the programs of economic modernization that were the topics of discussion today.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044952", "text": "First, President Biden, just a few hours ago, said that Russia would face a severe price should they use chemical weapons against Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044953", "text": "And then second, just yesterday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, she said that what Putin has done to Ukraine constitutes a war crime.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044954", "text": "When it comes to war crimes, we have all seen the devastating images coming out of Ukraine and are appalled by Russia's brutal tactics.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044955", "text": "If Russia is intentionally targeting civilians, that would be a war crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000044956", "text": "And we are also going to be restricting U.S. exports to Russia so that they are not receiving luxury items like high-end watches, luxury vehicles, high-end apparel, high-end alcohol, jewelry, other goods frequently purchased by Russian elites.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044957", "text": "So, Russia has taken some public positions attempting to tie the JCPOA to unrelated issues like Ukraine, so we're working through that with European allies.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044958", "text": "And the longer he forces his abused troops to attack Ukraine, the more he broadcasts his own profound weakness as a leader.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044959", "text": "His initial military plan to quickly capture Ukraine and force a capitulation has failed.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000044960", "text": "So as you know, the President has, from day one, worked to build strong governance to fight corruption in that country.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000044961", "text": "A State Department official, a deputy special representative for the regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, said that the flooding there and the crisis there is a long-term crisis that's going to get worse.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044962", "text": "Tomorrow Secretary Clinton, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah will be up at the U.N., focused on this issue as well, where they'll be talking more about the needs.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044963", "text": "Our commitment here is to make sure that Afghanistan can take care of the safety and security of their people on their own.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044964", "text": "Well, obviously we're pleased that China is coming to the event.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044965", "text": "As we have long said, we have an important relationship with China, one in which there are many issues of mutual concern that we work on together.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044966", "text": "The President thinks that North Korea is not living up to their obligations and they ought to live up to the obligations that are signed in the armistice agreement and international law.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044967", "text": "Broadly, I'd say in Afghanistan, we have been able to make a lot of security progress.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044968", "text": "As a result of what's happened with the auto industry and our efforts to turn it around, unemployment has dropped dramatically -- about eight points in the region.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000044969", "text": "His view, and as he said even in China, he thinks that unfettered Internet access is an important value.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044970", "text": "In terms of the specific reaction to Justice Alito, one of the great things about our democracy is that powerful members of the government at high levels can disagree in public and in private.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044971", "text": "We urge the government of China to protect the unique cultural and religious traditions of Tibet.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044972", "text": "The President will be introduced by a woman named Leslie Banks, who wrote the President recently about issues that she's been having with health care, specifically rate increases.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000044973", "text": "But then also along with what's happening on these counterterrorism measures and Yemen, we've also got issues to deal with with Iran and North Korea and Pakistan.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044974", "text": "As the President has said, he will -- he will make his decision on Afghanistan at the right time.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044975", "text": "And as the President and this administration has long said, the legitimacy of this election and of the leadership of Afghanistan is in the hands of the Afghan people.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044976", "text": "In an interview today, Secretary Clinton talked about decisions being made in Afghanistan by the White House, basically inferring that all these decisions are on the assumption that Karzai wins.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044977", "text": "The President authorized 21, 000 new troops for Afghanistan -- they're not all on the ground just yet, but we believe that with the strategy and the assets and the infusion of resources, that we're going to be able to achieve our goals.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044978", "text": "MR Well, the President's views on compensation are well known.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000044979", "text": "Education is a critically important issue as it relates to the competitiveness of our country with other countries.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000044980", "text": "Similarly, even in the process of government formation, they have retained their loyalty to the Iraqi constitution and to the Iraqi institutions of government under the transitional government that's in place.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000044981", "text": "I think his position on the war is well known.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000044982", "text": "I think with regard to Afghanistan, there we face a tough fight, a different fight.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000044983", "text": "You will see a significant amount of investment, new investment, not only in energy and fuel production but also in the credits that will be given to farmers to help offset power companies' utilization of greenhouse gas issues.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044984", "text": "Now, if you look at the substance of energy, there is bipartisan agreement on some of the solutions that we ought to undertake.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044985", "text": "And I think we're paying a huge price for that today with a tough economy.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000044986", "text": "He also called for a historic $41 billion investment for national drug program agencies, a 670 million increase -- dollar increase over the fiscal year 2021 -- enacted level -- to increase funding for prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and recovery services.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000044987", "text": "And so we'll need Russia and all sides to live up to what they agreed upon.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044988", "text": "We absolutely believe that Russia should live up to the agreements from the previous Minsk agreement, from that time.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000044989", "text": "We're working together with the U.N. to press for greater humanitarian access inside Syria, and the United States and Jordan both strongly support the Geneva II process and efforts to find a political solution to the Syrian conflict.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000044990", "text": "So I can expect a number of issues -- energy and the world economy are related, so it's likely that something like that would come up.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000044991", "text": "We're faced with a crisis on the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000044992", "text": "It's the only democracy in the region, and it was virtually thought of to be an enemy of the American people in the last administration.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044993", "text": "It's the only democracy in the region, and it's important that we keep our partners and allies close and happy, and that's what he did there.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000044994", "text": "Politicians on both sides of the aisle have allowed China to cheat and operate illegally and unlawfully on the world stage.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000044995", "text": "But he's been clear on what he wants from Iran, and that is to end its destabilization efforts, its actions of being the world's largest state sponsor of terror.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044996", "text": "We've ramped up sanctions on Iran, and we've bolstered some of our partnerships to try and put more pressure on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000044997", "text": "The President has been encouraged also by the fact that North Korea did return the remains to this country -- people who fought for this country and died for this country.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000044998", "text": "On Syria, they reaffirmed the importance of supporting the cessation of hostilities and a political transition away from Assad.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000044999", "text": "In doing so, this tax reform will bring jobs, bring back wealth, and bring back hope.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000045000", "text": "And that's an important thing -- the President has spoken to the importance that trade holds for the American people and that relationship -- to have an ambassador with such skills over in China, advocating for all American people.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045001", "text": "Our reporting shows that Amazon customers do pay sales tax in every state that has a sales tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000045002", "text": "With infrastructure, we have several committees on both sides of the Capitol.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045003", "text": "This is a huge deal for education for years to come.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045004", "text": "I fundamentally think technology is a game changer.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045005", "text": "And the reason that we're talking about that issue is because a high-quality education is so critical to expanding economic opportunity for the middle class.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045006", "text": "He had served a stint in state prison for drug trafficking.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000045007", "text": "Regardless of the security we have in place right now on the border, they make it to Utah by the hundreds and victimize us.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045008", "text": "They will also discuss global issues like Afghanistan, where Canada has troops fighting side by side with Americans.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045009", "text": "MR Oh, I don't think our military has those concerns about it.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045010", "text": "Bush will discuss how education is a crucial part of reducing the exploitation of women and children.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045011", "text": "So cooperation on a wide range of issues going forward depends on the actions that Russia takes.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045012", "text": "And so Iran knows what it needs to do, and then could reap the benefits of that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045013", "text": "And we're talking with other members of NATO about additional troop deployments.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045014", "text": "It's a choice between terrorism, or a choice between a political solution that leads to a Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045015", "text": "They'll discuss the need for Iran to suspend its nuclear activity, as well as discuss the importance of remaining committed to Afghanistan.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045016", "text": "And the assistance that flows out of the Defense Department is to fight the war on terror and to counter extremism, which is absolutely in the best interest of the United States.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045017", "text": "I know the issue of Iran came up in the discussion.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045018", "text": "Today's key judgments also confirm that Iran and Syria are still supporting and arming militant groups inside Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045019", "text": "We have wanted Russia to be a part of the greater international community.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045020", "text": "Russia is making a decision, and we certainly hope that it's not a long-term strategic decision, but Russia is making a decision that is only isolating itself.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045021", "text": "The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice last year had dialogue with China about rules of the road for cybersecurity.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045022", "text": "What do you think caused Russia to make that -- MS.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045023", "text": "They'll talk about trade, Doha; and the Korean trade minister has been a strong friend and the Korean government also wants to see a successful Doha round, progress into APEC and then into the Hong Kong ministerial; about our own bilateral economic relations.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045024", "text": "The first section was the private leaders section on terrorism, where the President delivered his thoughts on terrorism, global terrorism, what's going on in terrorism around the world, and terrorism financing.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045025", "text": "He does believe in migration, but migration for the right reasons, and did not want to see massive migration.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000045026", "text": "And we focused on the issue of North Korea, which is a major concern to us and all our other allies.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045027", "text": "They also emphasized their collective importance to NATO and to their security in the 21st century, obviously keying very much on Article 5.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045028", "text": "Q General Jones, I wanted to ask, the President at NATO -- at G20 talked about the need for a compromise when countries feel particularly strongly on one issue.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045029", "text": "We all -- the Alliance rejects terrorism in any form, but we all have our specific concerns as it relates to what's going on inside our borders -- Turkey, in particular.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045030", "text": "You have concrete commitments from all of NATO in the form of military capacity, funding capacity and a real buildup on the civilian side.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045031", "text": "So we think Brazilian democracy is resilient, strong, and will come through this.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045032", "text": "Well, the trip to the border had two major dimensions to it, as you know -- one to do with the issue of immigration, the other to do with the issue of fentanyl.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045033", "text": "Well, one of the things the President will do at every stop and with all these leaders, as he always does, is emphasize the importance of democracy and building the institutions of a free society.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045034", "text": "And so while Iran keeps coming up, it is an issue that is pretty well understood.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045035", "text": "His comments today were very supportive of trade; he understands the contribution that good trade made.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045036", "text": "Two-way trade is about $20 billion, but we think it can be much, much higher.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045037", "text": "The Indonesian government has announced and the Indonesian military has announced that it's disturbed and it's conducting an investigation into this.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045038", "text": "And he will discuss the importance of the global war on terror and how these brave men and women have worked to keep Americans safe.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045039", "text": "In terms of the importance of the APEC region to the United States, U.S. goods trade with APEC economies grew from $1.2 trillion in 2001 to nearly $2 trillion in 2007.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045040", "text": "Corruption represents a very significant threat to economic development; corruption has a corrosive effect on public trust, on government, and the rule of law.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000045041", "text": "Corruption is simply incompatible with the rule of law and, as I mentioned in connection with telecom, corruption is one of those issues that also has a multiplier effect.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000045042", "text": "Dan, over the past four weeks or so, Colombia has purged several members of their military over ties to extrajudicial killings.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045043", "text": "They certainly have very much appreciated his commitment to free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045044", "text": "They have benefitted greatly from free trade, but we have also benefitted greatly from free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045045", "text": "Well, it doesn't look -- you're youthful and full of energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045046", "text": "As you know, the Friends of Syria group is meeting I believe tomorrow, and we will be an active participant in that meeting.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045047", "text": "The fact of the matter is China and Russia vetoed a resolution at the Security Council that did not call for authorizing military force, but simply went after the Assad regime.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045048", "text": "And after eight and a half years of sacrifice, America's war in Iraq is coming to an end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045049", "text": "The war is over and the troops are coming home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045050", "text": "In this context, we have been in discussions with the Republic of Korea, at its request, on ways to address the threat posed by DPRK ballistic missiles.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045051", "text": "The ROK's new missile guidelines are designed to improve the Republic of Korea's ability to defend against DPRK ballistic missiles.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045052", "text": "As you look at Iraq today, it doesn't seem plausible to say that the war is over.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045053", "text": "And I realize that it's a big argument -- he promised to end the war in Iraq and he did.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045054", "text": "He inherited the policy in Afghanistan that was widely described as a drift with no clear focus and no suitable resources -- or a lack of suitable resources to execute the mission.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045055", "text": "He has endorsed the policy of self-deportation.", "issue": "deportation"}
{"id": "0000045056", "text": "His budget that he supports would cut education by 20 percent.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045057", "text": "Overwhelmingly, when Americans are presented with policy options that are on the table here with regards to the economy, to Medicare, to energy, education, the President's vision is supported far more broadly than the vision put forward by his opponents.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045058", "text": "When he took office, as you know, the world was divided on this issue and Iran was resurgent.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045059", "text": "And the anniversary of the end of the Iraq war is -- coincides with this as a way to reinforce that point.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045060", "text": "In fact, many of the countries that participated in the summit are themselves implementing sanctions against Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045061", "text": "We know also that issues like education, health care, economy are also very large issues in the Latino community.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045062", "text": "The two leaders spoke about their shared commitment to tolerance and religious freedom.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000045063", "text": "But we're leading an international effort to impose upon Iran what even the Iranian President has identified as the most stringent sanctions ever imposed on any country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045064", "text": "I think there is no evidence that Iran has been playing a constructive role in Syria -- in fact, quite to the contrary.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045065", "text": "As you know, it is important for the Egyptian military and civilian leadership to work closely together to address the economic and security challenges facing Egypt.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045066", "text": "We had expected President Morsi to coordinate with the military to name a new defense team.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045067", "text": "We regret that Iran has not yet made a strategic decision to address the international community's serious concerns regarding its nuclear program and the ongoing P5-plus-1 talks.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045068", "text": "The Obama administration has made the largest investment in clean energy in history, and the United States has doubled renewable energy since 2008.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045069", "text": "Not only have they opposed it, Mitt Romney called the benefits of wind energy imaginary.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045070", "text": "Jay, on Syria -- the former prime minister defected.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045071", "text": "No, just about access -- just about renewable energy, given it's such an important issue here in Iowa, and all the ways that they can grow those industries in Iowa.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045072", "text": "Secondly, Annan's resignation highlights the failure at the United Nations Security Council of Russia and China to support resolutions -- meaningful resolutions against Assad that would have held Assad accountable for his failure to abide by his commitments under the Annan plan.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000045073", "text": "Those vetoes, as we've said repeatedly, were highly regrettable, and place both Russia and China on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of the Syrian people.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045074", "text": "Well, we strongly condemn summary executions by either side in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045075", "text": "The President kept his commitment and ended the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045076", "text": "He is winding down the war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045077", "text": "He stood up and opposed the war when many people did not, many years before he ran for President.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045078", "text": "Jay, on Syria, Senator McCain today said that other Middle Eastern nations are begging for American leadership on Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045079", "text": "Jay, on Iran, the Israeli Prime Minister yesterday said that Iran's behavior in Bulgaria and elsewhere has been brazen, that the nuclear talks with Iran hasn't stopped the regime one bit, not one inch.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045080", "text": "MR The United States and Israel share a great deal of information about Iran and their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045081", "text": "As a general matter, the President has made abundantly clear that he has no tolerance for leaks and he thinks leaks are damaging to our national security interests.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000045082", "text": "He said he would end the war in Iraq; he ended the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045083", "text": "Staying on Syria, the Russian foreign minister earlier said earlier today that Russia regarded -- would regard the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government as unacceptable.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045084", "text": "Republicans and Romney now argue that the President should declare China a currency manipulator, which is something he has declined to do.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045085", "text": "And the P5-plus-1 are unified in calling for Iran to demonstrate the peaceful intent of its nuclear program and to fully comply with their international obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045086", "text": "And the nature of the relationship we have with Russia is that we can continue to work together despite our differences on issues of common agreement.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045087", "text": "On Iran, I don't think anybody with a straight face could argue that Iran has had a positive impact on developments in Syria.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045088", "text": "Netanyahu is saying, though, that Iran backed Hezbollah.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045089", "text": "And the people who pay the price for that approach are middle-class Americans who are struggling right now in the economy.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000045090", "text": "And on Syria, we are going to continue our conversations with the Russians about the need to abandon Assad, if you will, because he has so clearly written in stone what his legacy will be.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045091", "text": "All options with regards to Syria are being discussed and the need to take urgent action, as I talked about this week, is very much on the minds of policymakers in the administration and at the United Nations and elsewhere.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045092", "text": "In regards to Russia, we've been very clear about our view that Russia can and should play a constructive role on Syria in bringing about the political transition in Syria that is so necessary and that the Syrian people so deserve.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045093", "text": "We are glad that Russia is seeking broad international engagement on Syria and we hope that it will lead to progress.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045094", "text": "The President views education as very much an integral part of our economic growth and building the foundation we need for competing in the 21st century.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045095", "text": "The U.N. in Geneva said today I think 3, 500 Syrians have been killed in the crackdown there.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045096", "text": "Jay, on Syria, the foreign minister of Syria said in Moscow today that they've begun pulling back troops.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045097", "text": "And then I just spoke to the issue with troops in Afghanistan from two years ago.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045098", "text": "But there's expectation that brings North Korea closer to testing a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045099", "text": "Jay, on Syria, the U.N. Security Council has agreed to a Council statement that's in support of Kofi Annan's efforts to try to bring peace to the region.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045100", "text": "Is the -- and the Turkish military has launched an incursion into Northern Iraq in retaliation for that.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045101", "text": "We have our views on Iran and Iranian behavior and we obviously have a lot of means to address that issue.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045102", "text": "He's accusing the administration of rewarding China and penalizing American workers because they haven't designated China as a currency manipulator.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045103", "text": "Well, Kate, as you know, this administration has worked very constructively with both China and others around the globe on issues that are of a concern to us, including the valuation of the Chinese currency.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045104", "text": "And the fact that he was in Syria speaks exactly to that, where were it not for Anthony or reporters like him, we would know a lot less about the absolute brutality of the Assad regime and the democratic aspirations of the Syrian people.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045105", "text": "China has agreed to come out and help the Europeans, investing in the bailout fund.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045106", "text": "And that's a concern in terms of employment and in terms of the specific jobs that are lost because of the long-term need to improve our education system, which is very hard to do when you're laying off teachers.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000045107", "text": "Jay, one of the things that the President will talk about today, I guess, are the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045108", "text": "The middle class not only suffered tremendously during the great recession and is suffering as we emerge from it, but was under a great deal of pressure even prior to the recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000045109", "text": "I would note that Russia and China, two emerging economies, support Christine Lagarde and we think she's an excellent choice.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045110", "text": "What's clear is that Iran is under more pressure from sanctions than ever before, and their economy is clearly being affected by those sanctions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045111", "text": "And our interest is in Iran abiding by its international obligations, renouncing its interest in nuclear weapons and returning to the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045112", "text": "The President's commitment to education is strong and the initiative that he asked Dr. Biden to work on on community colleges is one that he thinks is very important.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045113", "text": "As you know, discussions ongoing at NATO and we feel very confident that it will happen soon.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045114", "text": "The military was very clear about their concerns about the Libya operation ahead of this, and there were obviously some tensions with the military during the Afghan review.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045115", "text": "I think the relationship with the military is excellent.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045116", "text": "And it's been I think amply described now that NATO will have a key role to play in that command and control structure in the next phase of this operation.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045117", "text": "Jay, even though the U.S. and other countries keep condemning what's happening in Syria, the situation there just gets worse.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045118", "text": "The commitment that both men share in education and education reform is the point.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045119", "text": "But we would welcome an indication from Russia that they will accept the results of a free and fair democratic election in Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045120", "text": "There are some reports that Iran has signaled an interest in negotiating with the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045121", "text": "But what Russia has done has flagrantly violated international law as well as the agreements that Russia has with the sovereign state of Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045122", "text": "So those are the consequences if Russia chose not to de-escalate and if Russia chose to continue down the path that it's on.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045123", "text": "Now Ukraine is saying that if pro-Russian protestors don't evacuate some of these government buildings in Eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's government will remove them by force.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045124", "text": "Jay, earlier today, Putin threatened to shut off imports from Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045125", "text": "MR Well, we're obviously a significant member of NATO and fully endorse the actions that the Alliance has taken to reassure NATO members and to bolster NATO's presence in the Baltic nations.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045126", "text": "You refer to sanctions on Russia with --", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045127", "text": "But obviously we're working very closely with the government of Ukraine in providing assistance and working with them on energy security matters, and we're working closely with our range of European partners on this very subject.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045128", "text": "So he's committed to making sure that higher education -- quality higher education remains accessible to Americans of all economic backgrounds.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045129", "text": "Even several years ago, as we were making progress in our relationship with Russia in some areas, we continued to have disagreements with them on missile defense and other matters.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045130", "text": "Russia made a decision that was disappointing.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045131", "text": "But the fact of the matter is that Syria is an issue of great concern to many of the nations represented at the G8 -- all of them, in fact.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045132", "text": "Military officials in Afghanistan are correcting an incorrect report that the Taliban attacks dropped last year.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045133", "text": "The President is committed to winding down that war and will keep to the timetable that he's announced with his NATO allies.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045134", "text": "MR Look, we judge North Korea by its actions, and provocations like these are significant violations.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045135", "text": "But it's also very important that this be something that is -- that comes through the military, because the military, our armed forces, will be implementing it.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045136", "text": "This new commitment brings America's total humanitarian aid to Syria to $365 million, making us the largest single donor of humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045137", "text": "There is a very important Friends of Syria meeting this week, as you know, in Morocco.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045138", "text": "So he's bringing to this a considerable amount of energy and passion, which is helping lift the rest of us up as we press towards the finish line.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045139", "text": "America has a history of religious tolerance and respect for religious beliefs that goes back to our nation's founding.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000045140", "text": "Any continued presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan beyond 2014 would be subject to an agreement between the Afghanistan government and the U.S. government, and would only be at the request of the Afghanistan government, and would only be for the purposes that I just mentioned.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045141", "text": "I would say that we have consistently called on Russia to cut off the Assad regime's supply of Russian weapons, including air defense systems that are destabilizing to the region.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045142", "text": "And we have consistently called on Russia not to provide a further supply of weapons to the Assad regime, including air defense systems that are particularly destabilizing to the region.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045143", "text": "But we have consistently engaged with Russia on this issue and made the case that further support for Assad would not be good for the future of Syria, for the Syrian people, or for Russia's relationship with Syria in the future.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045144", "text": "I did make my points about our view of Russia providing further weaponry to the Assad regime.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045145", "text": "When it comes to the options the President is consistently reviewing in our effort to support the opposition in Syria, that process is ongoing.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045146", "text": "The leaders also agreed that NATO should play a key role in the command structure going forward for the enforcement of the no-fly zone.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045147", "text": "And again, those discussions are ongoing in Brussels and in capitals, but of course, in their calls the President -- with President Sarkozy and Prime Minister Cameron, there was agreement that NATO does have a key role to play in this effort.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045148", "text": "Can you expand a bit on NATO -- you say NATO has a key role to play in this effort.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045149", "text": "Well, again, that's -- I wouldn't -- what we are saying right now is that NATO will have a key role to play here.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045150", "text": "So in Syria, clearly we need to reject a dictator who murders his people, and move forward towards a future that is inclusive for all Syrians.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045151", "text": "But looking to Syria, Syria is -- while Egypt culturally the center of the Arab world, Syria has been at the center of pretty much every Middle East conflict this country has ever dealt with.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045152", "text": "Well, again, Syria is an important country, and I think I've said -- I think I've made our case on that one, Chuck.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045153", "text": "China and India and others have become major investment and trade players in Latin America in recent years, and there's a sense in the region that the United States has been sort of asleep on the job.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045154", "text": "Will Chinese investment be an issue up for discussion, say, in Brazil where China is the top trading partner there, and in Chile where it is also I think the number one --", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045155", "text": "It will be an opportunity for the U.N. to assert and underscore its critical role in a post-Qaddafi Libya.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045156", "text": "The U.N. is setting up an office in Tripoli to support the transition there.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045157", "text": "In terms of democracy, we saw in Tehran, a year before Tunisia, people protesting in the streets for their basic universal rights.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045158", "text": "However, there is significant needs within Syria in terms of humanitarian assistance.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045159", "text": "Syria is an area where, even as we've had sharp differences, we believe Russia in the long term can be a part of a political process to bring the Assad regime to the table.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045160", "text": "So thus far, we have not seen any evidence that Russia is taking a different approach towards the Syrian issue at the U.N. Security Council.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045161", "text": "So those who were concerned about ongoing violence leading to extremists taking root in Syria should invest efforts in finding that type of political solution.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045162", "text": "I'd also say, we've begun our own military-to-military engagement with Burma again after a long period of time.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045163", "text": "Thus far, that engagement has focused on the professionalization of the Burmese military and also human rights training that we can provide.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045164", "text": "The ones that we anticipate -- the leaders that we anticipate the President meeting on the margins right now are Premier Wen of China, Prime Minister Noda of Japan -- so nothing on Russia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045165", "text": "Under our administration we have not provided any assistance to North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045166", "text": "Well, again, we see some progress in terms of a reduction in violence in Syria; however, the Annan plan has different components that we do not see the regime fulfilling at this point.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045167", "text": "I think that Russia has demonstrated with its actions in Ukraine, specifically in Crimea, that it is flouting international law and isolating itself.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045168", "text": "They briefly touched upon Afghanistan and NATO's ongoing efforts as we transition to end our combat mission this year and prepare for the upcoming summit in Wales.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045169", "text": "Clearly, the focus of the discussion was on Ukraine and the situation there and, importantly, how can we reassure our NATO allies, particularly those in Eastern Europe.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045170", "text": "But, again, I think what this crisis in Ukraine has done has simply heightened the urgency.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045171", "text": "In terms of Iran, I think we'll be able to give an update on the Iran talks.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045172", "text": "These sanctions are meant to reinforce that economic cost on Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045173", "text": "Frankly, our interest is that the people of Ukraine are able to determine their future, not any external actor.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045174", "text": "Trade is not simply an issue that has a significant range of opinions in the United States.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000045175", "text": "That gets at cross-border trade, customs issues, supporting the free flow of commerce, but also secure borders, efforts to promote security in North America more broadly.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045176", "text": "Well, I think, on the one hand, NAFTA supports a huge amount of trade that supports a significant number of U.S. jobs.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045177", "text": "We're in talks on issues associated with migration that, again, I think allow for there to be greater connectivity particularly among Cuban Americans and Cuba.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000045178", "text": "And this is an issue that is not just a bilateral one between the United States and Iran; it's an issue between Iran and the international community in the fact that Iran has consistently failed to meet its obligations with respect to its nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045179", "text": "You're not going to solve all the issues with Iran in any one meeting or encounter.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045180", "text": "And in particular, as we end the war in Iraq and wind down in Afghanistan, one of the places that we are shifting our focus and priority to is the Asia Pacific region.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045181", "text": "Russia and China obviously are part of the P5-plus-1 grouping of nations that we have worked with on Iran.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045182", "text": "Russia has a military base that it established there through an agreement between the Russian government and the Ukrainian government.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045183", "text": "But there's no question that there are ethnic Russians in Crimea, there are ethnic Russians in other parts of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045184", "text": "And it's an important part of our view in is that Ukraine needs to -- the Ukrainian government needs to make sure that the rights of ethnic Russians are protected.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045185", "text": "We continue to have enormous issues with Iran, its sponsorship of terrorist organizations, its bad behavior in the region that manifests itself in many ways.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045186", "text": "And, two, I think there's a pushback in China, the belief that some of this technology is an effort by the Western influences to gain a foothold in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045187", "text": "In fact, the science you have to embrace is so significant that in the next 40 years, that science equals the science in agriculture for the preceding 10, 000 years.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000045188", "text": "As Jay laid out, housing is a critical cornerstone of the better bargain for the middle class that the President has been laying out over the last few weeks.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000045189", "text": "And as the President said, I would note, at his speech in NDU, since this was a question yesterday, he noted that core al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045190", "text": "And so we've seen disease spread through this, including some links to SARS, Avian Influenza, and other issues like that.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000045191", "text": "It's an issue we've discussed with China, with Russia, with international partners around the globe.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045192", "text": "A lot of these syndicates are based in Asia, and China is a significant destination for some of this wildlife trafficking.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045193", "text": "They're focused on infrastructure as well, as we heard in South Africa too -- the importance of building out infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045194", "text": "Danny went through the programmatic consequences -- what this would mean for education, medical, research, public safety, and a whole range of things.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045195", "text": "I don't think we're making new invitations to Russia or reiterating new invitations to Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045196", "text": "Jen, NATO is making an effort for a virus-free summit for world leaders in June.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045197", "text": "We also know that a global pandemic is causing global supply chain challenges and resulting upticks in inflation.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045198", "text": "Jen, tomorrow -- tomorrow there's a key report on inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000045199", "text": "We're seeing polls show that people think COVID is here to stay.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000045200", "text": "Americans right now know that they're paying a higher price because of the sanctions against Russia.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000045201", "text": "Obviously, the important role that Poland has been playing as a neighboring country in welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine into their country is something that the Vice President will note and will thank them for personally when she is on the ground.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045202", "text": "The administration has said many times that it would help Ukraine investigate war crimes.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045203", "text": "On COVID, Jen, Philadelphia is the first major city to reinstate an indoor mask mandate with this current surge.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000045204", "text": "But for a country to be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism, the Secretary of State would have to determine that the government of that country has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045205", "text": "But also, the Infrastructure Law that he's already passed, signed into law, and is implementing has a major investment in climate in it.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045206", "text": "The leaders will be joined by President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045207", "text": "He believes that's part of our democracy and part of the history of the United States and this country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045208", "text": "On Ukraine, maybe, we've seen reports about how U.S. intelligence is helping the Ukrainians take out generals and ships.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045209", "text": "Well, again, he's proposed an enormous investment, as a part of the American Jobs Plan, in electric vehicles and in the industry because he thinks it's the industry of the future.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045210", "text": "You've made a big deal about including funding for human infrastructure; the Republicans don't include that at all in their proposal.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045211", "text": "The top general in Afghanistan said the escalating violence could lead to a deadly civil war.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045212", "text": "I will say that our view is that we are at war with the virus; we are not at war with a social media platform or with a network.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000045213", "text": "As he has said since day one, his administration will pull every lever to get the pandemic under control.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045214", "text": "The President also agrees we should take inflation seriously.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000045215", "text": "Some -- the IAEA director said that Iran may be capable of making nuclear weapons in a few months.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045216", "text": "The best thing we can do as a government is to get the pandemic under control.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045217", "text": "We've also held discussions with Russian officials about Ukraine and U.S.-Russian relations general- -- generally.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045218", "text": "We have purchased anti-vir- -- the antivirals to further add to our fight against the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045219", "text": "Just a quick question on COVID -- the vaccine mandate that the White House put out for private employers, Jen.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000045220", "text": "At the same time, of course, we want to end the war in Yemen.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045221", "text": "You know, I don't think - I think, clearly, the circumstances in Syria remain as dire, or more, today than they were just a couple of years ago.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045222", "text": "And he wants to make sure we end the pandemic before that happens.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045223", "text": "Syria will be on the agenda, and our position on the humanitarian access issue is well understood.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045224", "text": "Of course, he will discuss the emerging challenges posed by China, not just in the Indo-Pacific but elsewhere, in terms of technology and cybersecurity and information warfare and in other regards, as well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045225", "text": "But that security and military dimension itself is changing, and cyber and emerging technology will play an important role in that.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045226", "text": "On Afghanistan, does he intend to touch on the Kabul issue and particularly the security at the airport --", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045227", "text": "The global minimum tax is -- was one of our top priorities in terms of delivering for the American people.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000045228", "text": "They will talk about Syria and humanitarian access, among other issues in the counterterrorism space.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045229", "text": "Of course, we can't make guarantees about what Russia will do, but we can make pledges about what America will do, which is we will respond if those harmful activities continue.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045230", "text": "Ultimately, we don't judge Russia -- the Russian government -- was responsible for the ransomware attacks, but we have said it is -- it is Russia's sovereign obligation to deal with it, and we have communicated that to them.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045231", "text": "In other instances, particularly on Iran, you have opposed or have said it's unnecessary for Congress to take that sort of action.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045232", "text": "There's sanctions legislation with regard to North Korea, for example, that I know that the administration has supported in the past.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045233", "text": "Congress passed legislation to impose additional sanctions against Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045234", "text": "But particularly when we're in an environment where we are at war against terrorists, there's a temptation to do that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045235", "text": "Because ultimately our ability to fight terrorism successfully is going to require effective cooperation with our allies and partners around the world.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045236", "text": "And given what we know about the racial motivation of the shooter, in the President's mind this fits the definition of a hate crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000045237", "text": "Senators Kaine and Murphy, both Democrats who support the Iran ideal, have introduced legislation that would extend sanctions against Iran past 2016, the idea being that there would still be a snapback in place if there was a violation of the Iran deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045238", "text": "Recently, the Turkish government announced essentially the takeover of Zaman newspaper in Turkey.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000045239", "text": "But we obviously take the threat from North Korea quite seriously.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045240", "text": "Reagan was a remarkable woman and will have an important place in American history.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000045241", "text": "But one component of the Recovery Act that I think will long be remembered is the historic investment that was made in the American clean energy economy.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045242", "text": "That was an important investment, not just because of the important immediate economic benefits that were associated with job creation, but the longer-term benefits associated with investing in innovation.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045243", "text": "What will be immediately obvious is whether or not Russia takes seriously the responsibilities that they have committed to here.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045244", "text": "In fact, back in November, the United States military carried out an airstrike where the leading ISIL figure in Libya was taken off the battlefield.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045245", "text": "When we make a promise to our men and women in the military, we need to keep it.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045246", "text": "And that's why he's dedicating so much energy to trying to defend it.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045247", "text": "That sanctions authority has been used to impose costs on Iran for their support for terrorism, for their violation of human rights.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045248", "text": "And then, just specifically in terms of yesterday in the discussion, you said that one takeaway is that Russia wants to support the government.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045249", "text": "And ultimately, policies that focus on opening up a college education to more middle-class families is a top priority that the President identified at the beginning of his presidency.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045250", "text": "MR Andrew, we have said particularly when confronting this issue in Syria that ultimately the root cause of all the violence and the corresponding humanitarian situation is the failed political leadership of Bashar al-Assad.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045251", "text": "The second thing I will say is that over the years, Russia has been an effective interlocutor with the United States and other countries that have significant claims in the Arctic.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045252", "text": "And we continue to urge not just Russia but other countries with interest in the Arctic to continue to pursue that effective cooperation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045253", "text": "The President has championed important investments in renewable energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045254", "text": "That if the United States determines that it's necessary to snap sanctions back in place because a violation has been detected by IAEA inspectors, that China would not be able to unilaterally block such a move.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045255", "text": "She's an Ohio woman and a cancer survivor who wrote the President a letter in late 2009, encouraging him to keep up the fight for health care reform.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000045256", "text": "The President today called again for lifting the economic embargo.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000045257", "text": "As it relates to Greece's relationship with Russia, obviously Greece is free to pursue the kinds of international relationships that they believe are in the best interest of their country.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045258", "text": "The five years refers to the arms embargo that the U.N. put in place against Iran; the eight years refers to the sanctions related to Iran's ballistic missiles program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045259", "text": "Can I ask you on today's event -- President Obama has called trade one of his most important priorities right now.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045260", "text": "He's only been in South Korea for a few months, but he's done an extraordinary job of representing the United States and our interests in that country.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045261", "text": "And that's simply because a college education has never been more important to getting a good-paying middle-class job.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045262", "text": "You want to make sure that the transportation infrastructure nearby is sufficient to handle any sort of traffic that would be associated with your business.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045263", "text": "The British military has made significant commitments to that effort.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045264", "text": "These kinds of investments in infrastructure are really important to our economy, and the President is really interested in making our tax code more simple and more fair.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045265", "text": "And so any sort of future agreement that the President reaches on trade would be predicated on the same core principle that we're only going to cut a deal that is clearly in the best interests of American workers, American businesses, and American farmers.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045266", "text": "The United States has seen the reports of President Hadi's resignation, the resignation of other senior government officials in Yemen.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000045267", "text": "Well, Kathleen, several weeks ago the intelligence community released an assessment indicating their conclusion that Russia was engaging in malicious activity in cyberspace in an effort to undermine confidence in the U.S. political system.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045268", "text": "The President has got complete confidence that our system of democracy and our system of administering elections is durable and strong.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045269", "text": "As it relates to the domestic political situation in South Korea, that's an issue for the South Korean people to discuss and debate -- something I wouldn't weigh in on from here.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045270", "text": "And because of his belief that these policies should be guided by science, he's directed the CDC to be in close touch with public health officials in all the states across the country, but in this case in the state of Maine.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000045271", "text": "There also is an active effort to attack critical infrastructure that's maintained by ISIL that is important to their logistical efforts.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045272", "text": "This is everything from making a college education more affordable and accessible to middle-class families across the county.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045273", "text": "As the cost of -- as a college education becomes more important than ever to a good, solid, middle-class job, the cost of a college education has outstripped inflation significantly.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000045274", "text": "Early investments in things like early childhood education and in elementary education would ensure that we have kids who are well positioned to benefit from a college education and can compete in a global economy.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045275", "text": "These training -- this Title 10 authority to train Syrian opposition fighters would not occur on the ground in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045276", "text": "The United States congratulates Ukraine for ratifying its association agreement with the European Union, and for passing the Amnesty and Special Status laws in parliament -- two important measures to peacefully resolve the ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045277", "text": "We congratulate Ukraine on committing to undertake these important steps.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045278", "text": "And the United States will continue to stand with our friends in Ukraine and support them as they pursue this effort.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045279", "text": "Russia is already threatening trade sanctions against Ukraine for signing a political and economic pact with the EU.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045280", "text": "As you know, there were some conversations that took place between President Poroshenko and members of the U.N. -- I'm sorry, the European Council earlier today.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045281", "text": "The fact of the matter is, the kinds of agreements that Ukraine and Georgia and Moldova signed today are the kinds of agreements that should be decisions made solely by those sovereign governments.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045282", "text": "Investing in a 21st century American infrastructure is an important part of what the President believes we need to do in the long term for the benefit of our economy and the benefit of middle-class families in America.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045283", "text": "Josh, on Ukraine, there's been some criticism from the Hill that the sanctions are a paper tiger because there have been threats of further action but no further action taken.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045284", "text": "And, frankly, in the view of the United States, the more we let the Russian-backed separatists and Russia draw out the crisis, the more vulnerable Ukraine will become.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045285", "text": "In advance of the President's meeting with state and local officials in Dallas to discuss the urgent humanitarian situation on the southwest border, I wanted to highlight three recent developments for you.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045286", "text": "Senior White House officials have traveled to the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045287", "text": "Certainly as it relates to the situation in Ukraine, U.S. officials have been in regular touch with their German counterparts as we seek to take coordinated efforts to impose economic costs on the Russian regime for their actions in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045288", "text": "That makes our democracy stronger.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045289", "text": "And it has served our democracy well when investigators and law enforcement officials have observed those norms.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045290", "text": "Suppressing speech and opinion does not support the fight against terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045291", "text": "Over the next 48 hours, the American people will be taking part in our democracy, where the greatest country in the world decides who its leader will be, based on the preferences of the people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045292", "text": "And the President believes that our democracy is best served when investigators demonstrate a commitment to that principle.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045293", "text": "As you've obviously seen from the Syrian Democratic forces and from Secretary Carter, the Syrian forces on the ground inside of Syria that we are supporting have begun the operation against Raqqa.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045294", "text": "In northern Syria, there now is an area about the size of New Jersey where opposition forces have succeeded in driving ISIL out, where ISIL no longer poses a direct, imminent threat to those areas.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045295", "text": "That is critical to the success of our democracy -- professional journalists who take their job very seriously to press for more access, to press for greater transparency, to hold people in power accountable.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045296", "text": "They're represented at the UN and they will be participating in this meeting the President will drop by.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000045297", "text": "We are leading an effort to combat the outbreak of Ebola.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000045298", "text": "We are leading an effort to impose costs on Russia and to support the Ukrainian people.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045299", "text": "Again, to have on the first night of these strikes in Syria Arab partners with us, that was an absolute priority of the President's.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045300", "text": "So on this issue of terrorism, he's always made clear that we need to take the fight to terrorists, and that's what he's done in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045301", "text": "And one of the answers to that is the emerging climate science, that you actually need to create scale in order to create the ecosystem.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000045302", "text": "So before this agreement even went in to effect, our critics said that Iran would never go along with the deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045303", "text": "Iran did sign onto an agreement July of last year.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045304", "text": "Critics then shifted to saying that Iran would never live up to the commitments that they made in the context of the deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045305", "text": "Our critics also suggested that Iran would reap a significant windfall from this agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045306", "text": "Implementation Day was predicated on the verification of Iran living up to these commitments and the international community initiating steps to offer sanctions relief in exchange.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045307", "text": "One of the things about expanding renewable energy is that it raises more -- as you have more renewable energy on the grid, it raises more questions about reliability issues.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045308", "text": "In the United States, we're investing significant resources in research around improving technology and improving the commercialization of the technology around carbon capture and sequestration.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045309", "text": "Iraqi security forces that were backed by the support of coalition military might have retaken the city of Fallujah.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045310", "text": "As they continue to make some progress, that will also have a material impact on closing the border between Turkey and Syria.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045311", "text": "Our country is facing an epidemic on gun violence that is costing lives every day, as we've seen most recently in Buffalo and other examples.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000045312", "text": "We denounce white racism and domestic terror.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000045313", "text": "As we've said before, his priority as it relates to the economy is tackling inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000045314", "text": "Seventeen states have historical -- historically low unemployment.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000045315", "text": "Clearly, this President has made inflation a priority -- an economic priority.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000045316", "text": "The market drop has caused a tremendous loss of wealth.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000045317", "text": "Whatever you guys -- -- whatever you guys be -- would be willing to do in seeing Russia take over this -- the largest territory since Crimea", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045318", "text": "They're going to continue to fight for their democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045319", "text": "As the President said last week when he was in Europe, we will support Ukraine as it defends itself from Russia's unprovoked attack for as long as it takes.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045320", "text": "Earlier this week, the President spoke about additional actions to bring the price of gas down.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000045321", "text": "Given that the President has expressed so many concerns about threats to democracy, I'm curious if this White House has concerns about Twitter being a place where misinformation, again, and hate speech and threats to democracy are flourishing.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045322", "text": "Again, this is -- this is a continued -- what we -- what the President has promised is to continue to support Ukraine as they're fighting for their freedom.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045323", "text": "And even if you think about democracy, protecting our democracy, that is something that a majority of Americans agree with us on.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045324", "text": "When he -- when we are talking about democracy and the threats to democracy, it's something that he has been talking about for some time now, as you know.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045325", "text": "As it relates to your -- the first part of your question, again, I mean, the President just laid out why democracy is so important and put that in front of the American people last night in a very strong and powerful way.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045326", "text": "These resources are providing temporary housing for thousands of households and supporting initiatives like Operation Blue Roof, through which he -- we have installed over 17, 000 roofs.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000045327", "text": "And we -- and he also has talked about the importance of protecting our democracy, the importance of strengthening our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045328", "text": "Russia is depriving the Ukrainian people of heat, power, and other critical services as winter approaches.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045329", "text": "This equipment will be rapidly delivered to Ukraine on an emergency basis and will include distribution transformers, circuit breakers, surge arresters, disconnectors, vehicles, and other key equipment that Ukraine needs.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045330", "text": "That's why he's made strengthening democracy a cornerstone of both his domestic and international agendas.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045331", "text": "That's going to make a real investment in climate change to -- an historic investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045332", "text": "And we know that would make inflation worse.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000045333", "text": "Working together with Congress, the administration has provided $32 billion in assistance to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045334", "text": "We will continue to provide support to Ukraine for as long as it takes as they defend their country against Russian aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045335", "text": "And he's -- and he asked the military to present options.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045336", "text": "As you know, our -- you know, our commitment to Ukraine has been steadfast for the people of Ukraine as they're fighting against a brutal war that started by Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045337", "text": "China is now -- a diplomat is asking for the parts -- the recovered parts to be returned to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045338", "text": "Make no mistake about it...if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act and protect our country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045339", "text": "If China threatens our sovereignty, we will act and protect our country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045340", "text": "Any decisions about military force would be done in consultation with the U.N. and with the Haitian government.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045341", "text": "Is there any concern that the existing infrastructure in a place like Rolling Fork -- I mean, we're landing in Jackson, Mississippi.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045342", "text": "Default would threaten 8 million jobs, trigger a recession, and retirement plans for millions of Americans.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000045343", "text": "So, the United States has concerns about any country exercising with Russia while Russia wages a unprovoked, brutal war against Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045344", "text": "Russia's war in Ukraine is a threat to the rules-based international order that has been in the foundation of stability across the world for decades.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045345", "text": "I mean, this is a war that was unprovoked by Russia, an attack on a sovereign country.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045346", "text": "We will continue to support Ukraine as it defends itself and hold Russia accountable for its war against Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045347", "text": "So, again, we will continue to support Ukraine as they defend their territory.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045348", "text": "Again, look, as far as Ukraine, I would point you to their government on how they're going to be involved in UNGA.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045349", "text": "While a recession is possible, he does not think there will be a recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000045350", "text": "He miscalculated what his aggression, what his war that he created against Ukraine would lead to.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045351", "text": "He was asked multiple time -- times about the war that Putin started.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045352", "text": "But we are committed to helping Ukraine fight -- supporting Ukraine's fight for its freedom and fight for its democracy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045353", "text": "Look, I mean, we have been -- we have concerns with Iran; we have said that before.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045354", "text": "So our role is to provide that temporary housing for families as they're working through what we can do to support their permanent rebuilding.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000045355", "text": "This is a potentially $1.6 billion federal investment in making sure that this bridge does what it needs to do.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045356", "text": "Clearly cannot speak for China and their decision on that.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045357", "text": "The President has said, when it comes to abortion and Roe and fighting for the rights and freedoms and privacy of the American public, everything is on the table.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000045358", "text": "So we condemn this apparent attack on critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045359", "text": "Thus far, North Korea has not displayed any indication of willingness to engage in meaningful or constructive diplomacy.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045360", "text": "And, in fact, the Republic of Korea and Japan have stepped up in really significant ways to support this effort.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045361", "text": "We have had conversations with China in private about our sanctions regime vis-a-vis North Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045362", "text": "And the head of U.S. Forces Korea -- the Commander of U.S. Forces Korea, Scaparrotti, took us by Black Hawk up to the DMZ.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045363", "text": "I mean, there'll be significant resources around infrastructure, around trade facilitation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045364", "text": "That includes supporting critical infrastructure and public health.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045365", "text": "You know how we've spoken about the Afghanistan and the operation and how it was just a non-ending war that we spent billions of dollars on.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045366", "text": "It's not a surprise to me that China has concerns about the number of countries, the diversity of countries who have expressed interest in and enthusiasm for IPEF.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045367", "text": "The pandemic revealed the many cracks in our global health systems and underscored the importance of strong, resilient, and accessible health systems for the entire population, health security, and pandemic preparedness and response.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045368", "text": "We don't -- we don't need a bunch of speeches today on crime; we need state officials to -- and Congress to move.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000045369", "text": "And we expect the war in Ukraine to have some effects on core inflation too, particularly when you look at things like airfares and the effect of higher jet fuel costs.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045370", "text": "That Strategic Concept described Russia as a strategic partner and did not refer to China.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045371", "text": "This Strategic Concept will describe in stark terms the threat that Russia poses and the way in which it has shattered peace in Europe.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045372", "text": "Brittney Griner faces a trial in Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045373", "text": "So, first, the -- for us, the number-one priority with respect to China, when it comes to the war in Ukraine, is that China not become militarily supportive of Russia through the provision of equipment.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045374", "text": "Russia today released a bunch of new sanctions on U.S. officials, including the First Lady.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045375", "text": "But the fact of the matter is the border is closed, which is in part why you see people trying to make this dangerous journey using smuggling networks.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045376", "text": "So, as you know, we're headed to NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045377", "text": "And the countries who are most nervous and, at some level, opposed to what he's doing are Russia, China, and Iran.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045378", "text": "Experts have said that it will -- it will help fight inflation, not just for the moment but for the long haul.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000045379", "text": "The President will certainly raise the issue of North Korea with the Chinese President, but not from the point of view of being a demandeur of any kind.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045380", "text": "If Russia chose to stop fighting in Ukraine and left, it would be the end of the war.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045381", "text": "If Ukraine chose to stop fighting and give up, it would be the end of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045382", "text": "Not -- not support for Russia -- I'm sorry.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045383", "text": "She will also discuss our commitment to democracy, economic growth, food security, and managing the efforts of Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, as well as engage with young leaders, business representatives, and members of the African diaspora.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045384", "text": "And we will look to work with China in areas where it's in our mutual interest and the wider world's interest to do so.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045385", "text": "Obviously, Russia has its own interests in trying to pull other countries into this conflict if it can, but our position is the same whether or not they meet.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045386", "text": "Russia's invasion of Ukraine looms large and will be a significant topic of conversation.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045387", "text": "Of course, the common concerns and issues associated with the policies and practices of the People's Republic of China will come up.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045388", "text": "In April, you had a state visit from Korea that led to a historic Washington Declaration.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045389", "text": "Karine, on Ukraine, there's some concern that the -- the aid package that Congress approved in December could dry up this summer.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045390", "text": "This war can end today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045391", "text": "This is a war that was started by Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045392", "text": "And, as you know, the United States military has a longstanding defense relationship with Egypt that goes back many, many years.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045393", "text": "But, look, China will be a significant focus here for the G7, and the impact that China's coercive, economic practices, use of forced labor, intellectual theft -- all those are front and center for the nations of the G7.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045394", "text": "And I think you're going to see China very much at the forefront as the G7 goes on.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045395", "text": "Started this war with Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045396", "text": "And this war can end today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045397", "text": "There was an NBC report about retaliation by Iran for the Soleimani killing.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045398", "text": "That requires an Afghan national army, an Afghan national police, and a partner in delivering governance and services in order to establish -- in order to further establish a strong central government.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000045399", "text": "And I anticipate that obviously with the leader of Japan will talk about -- the President will first thank them for their renewed commitment to Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045400", "text": "We went to war in Iraq that we didn't pay for.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045401", "text": "On Afghanistan, it seems like every day we're getting new accusations of fraud in this election.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045402", "text": "There are some reports that China is considering restricting exports of rare earth.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045403", "text": "MR I think Iran has to live up to its responsibilities and end its illicit nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045404", "text": "Gordon Brown called her new sanctions or -- called for the U.N. to respond resolutely, I think was his phrase.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045405", "text": "And that strategy will continue to try to get agreement that Afghanistan and Pakistan are the shared concern of the world, not simply the concern of one country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045406", "text": "The President and the administration never sought a specific goal for additional stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000045407", "text": "In both Mexico and at the summit, energy and climate change will be important conversations that are had.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045408", "text": "The stimulus -- the $800 billion -- the roughly $800 billion figure for the stimulus was decided upon in December.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000045409", "text": "The Canadians, after saying over and over that they wouldn't keep soldiers in Afghanistan after 2011, have decided to send 950 military trainers.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045410", "text": "It's important to making continued progress in Afghanistan, and as I said, we're quite grateful for their action.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045411", "text": "It portrays him as constantly at war with his own military and trying to push back against their demand for more resources in Afghanistan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045412", "text": "I'd say the two biggest topics were Afghanistan -- obviously there are about 700 troops from Denmark in Afghanistan fighting alongside, without any caveats, other troops.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045413", "text": "My sense is that they discussed abortion and stem cells.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000045414", "text": "So I think Iran will be discussed in that context of a shared commitment that they have to non-proliferation and nuclear security.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045415", "text": "I think these are important opportunities to discuss Iran bilaterally; to discuss Iran's continued failure to live up to their obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045416", "text": "And -- see if there's anything else on Afghanistan and Pakistan -- and they talked about the importance of Pakistan as the part of that, and the need to deal with this.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045417", "text": "And as you saw the President commend the Canadians because the largest share of their foreign aid, of Canadian foreign aid, goes to Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045418", "text": "Because yesterday he seemed to emphasize the global fight against terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045419", "text": "Just on Syria -- over the weekend, Macron said that he talked to the President and convinced him to double-down on the U.S.'s commitment to Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045420", "text": "So as a CBP official just said, the numbers on the border are down drastically, almost 70 percent last month.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045421", "text": "He has no interests in Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045422", "text": "Specifically, Iran, Sudan and Syria have been designated as state sponsors of terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045423", "text": "China is retaliating against the THAAD deployment in South Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045424", "text": "So, this week, we're particularly emphasizing how we can use technology to improve government services.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045425", "text": "Expanding our current fleet of ships requires a collaborative partnership between the military and industry leaders to ensure maximum efficiency for taxpayers.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045426", "text": "And at the same time, the U.N. Ambassador -- the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, has said that Assad is a war criminal.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045427", "text": "So you just criticized President Obama's policy on Syria and the red line.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045428", "text": "One is, statements by both Secretary Tillerson and Ambassador Haley speak to the political realities of the situation in Syria in terms of -- I think we had opportunities in the past, several years, to look at regime change.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045429", "text": "But that doesn't mean that we can't support efforts like safe zones through Syria; that we'll make sure that we do what we can for their people.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045430", "text": "A senior military official in Russia said that the country is considering reestablishing its presence in Cuba and Vietnam, and going back to some of the bases from the Cold War era.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045431", "text": "And unfortunately, in recent times, Russia has not been able to live up to the commitments that they've made -- whether that's in Syria, whether that's in Ukraine, or elsewhere around the world.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045432", "text": "Britain is one of the countries that is committed to -- 2 percent of their GDP is defense spending.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000045433", "text": "And in Syria, counter-ISIL forces are continuing to make progress towards Raqqa.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045434", "text": "This is a community -- I wouldn't say this drug abuse epidemic is unique to this area, but it's also an issue that has significantly impacted this area.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000045435", "text": "And I think that this epidemic is one that doesn't just affect people as individuals, but it can affect them in the workplace, it can shatter families, communities, schools.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000045436", "text": "The Secretary of State has made clear that Iran is going to have to be part of this discussion.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045437", "text": "We will closely coordinate with the Republic of Korea, and remain steadfast in our commitment to our alliance.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045438", "text": "It is through engagement with China that the United States has been able to make progress on issues that are important to U.S. businesses and to the American people -- from increasing access to the Chinese market for U.S. firms, to securing an ambitious climate change agreement.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045439", "text": "And in fact, we believe that that sort of hostility is all the more reason why Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000045440", "text": "And again, the deal we struck, that the international community struck with Iran was solely about getting rid of * nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045441", "text": "That also includes increasing investment in infrastructure by passing a long-term bill and not governing crisis to crisis.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045442", "text": "Again, this is a place -- even in Syria -- where we don't have a centralized government to work in.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045443", "text": "As he said, he is certainly hopeful that down the road Iran takes a new path towards more acceptance within the international community, but that this deal was specifically about Iran's nuclear program, and that is exclusively what this deal was about.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045444", "text": "Nedra, as you know, our very serious and grave concerns about Iran's support for terrorism remains unabated.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045445", "text": "So our view is, because of their support for terrorism, that is all the more reason that we need to make sure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045446", "text": "I believe the more substantive conversations on trade happened in those sessions with the House Democrats who supported trade and the Senate Democrats who supported trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045447", "text": "His focus is on actually getting trade done and building an agreement with Iran that would rid itself of nuclear weapons.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045448", "text": "Paul Ryan is a key partner for the President on trade, I would say.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045449", "text": "As we talked about, the bill originally had a requirement to certify that Iran does not back terrorism against Americans.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045450", "text": "We can either deny that globalization is at our door, and we can put our head in the sand; or we can make sure that the global marketplace has a level playing field.", "issue": "globalization"}
{"id": "0000045451", "text": "The assessment for how long it would take Iran to acquire enough fissile material is approximately two to three months.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045452", "text": "Eric, President Rouhani of Iran is casting this deal as a new relationship with the world.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045453", "text": "I think the concerns we have with Iran outside of the nuclear program remain just as vibrant as they were yesterday as they are today.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045454", "text": "So the U.S. military has not recommended deploying U.S. ground forces to defend an area like that, nor do we believe that that's necessary.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045455", "text": "And quite frankly, what we're also calling for is for Russia and the Assad regime to stop their barbaric bombardment inside Syria as soon as possible.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045456", "text": "We are definitely deeply troubled by reports of the Ukrainian military and civilian casualties as a result of the Russian-backed separatist assault.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045457", "text": "I know several of them in leadership and some of the new freshmen have said that education is a priority.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045458", "text": "Director Pierson offered her resignation because she believed that it was in the best interest of the agency to which she dedicated her career and 30 years of her life.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000045459", "text": "In terms of marshaling resources for the outbreak in West Africa, that continues to be a priority and one that the entire administration is pursuing.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000045460", "text": "Darlene, somehow I don't think there will be any shortage of analysis on this race.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000045461", "text": "We have unequivocally condemned the failed coup in Turkey.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000045462", "text": "I'm not here to handicap the physical fitness of the candidates running for office.", "issue": "handicap"}
{"id": "0000045463", "text": "The battle to squash the virus began many months ago, but some two dozen local governments in Florida are collectively seeking millions of dollars to stop that threat.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000045464", "text": "And then third, on a host of issues facing Europe -- ranging from migration to the economy to terrorism -- the EU is more capable of facing down those issues with a strong United Kingdom included.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045465", "text": "It included a stop at a farm in the Central Valley, where the President talked about efforts underway by the federal government, in coordination with state and local officials, to help local residents deal with the drought.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000045466", "text": "So there is an enduring military-to-military relationship between the United States and Nigeria to assist the Nigerian government in fighting the brutal actions of Boko Haram.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045467", "text": "Never before has a college education been as important as it is now in expanding opportunity and ensuring economic stability in this global economy.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045468", "text": "The other dynamic that factors into all this is that Russia prides itself on being a reliable supplier of natural gas to countries around the world -- I would say natural gas and other sources of energy to countries around the world.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045469", "text": "Finally, it's also important to recognize that Russia relies on revenue from exporting natural gas and other sources of energy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045470", "text": "Russia currently yields about $50 billion a year in revenue from exporting natural gas, so ending that kind of relationship with Europe would have significant financial consequences for Russia as well.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045471", "text": "But in terms of the top lines, the United States has a long relationship with Ukraine and has actually been talking about these energy issues for some time.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045472", "text": "Because of the actions that Congress has taken working in concert with this administration, there are -- some of the toughest sanctions in history have been put in place against Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045473", "text": "The negotiations that we're having through the P5-plus-1 with Iran are related strictly to Iran's nuclear program and the importance of Iran bringing that nuclear program into compliance with their international obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045474", "text": "The U.N. Secretary General Ban will convene the Geneva Conference on Syria in Geneva on Wednesday, January 22nd, bringing the Syrian government and opposition to a negotiating table for the first time since the start of the Syrian conflict.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045475", "text": "The goal here is to make sure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045476", "text": "China is now demanding that airlines inform them when they're going into that airspace.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045477", "text": "The two leaders reaffirmed their shared goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045478", "text": "And Iran has agreed to neutralize an important portion of that stockpile.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045479", "text": "The third concern that's been harbored, again both by the United States and the Israelis, is that Iran would use the cover of talks to continue to make progress on their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045480", "text": "Josh, the Israelis with the Saudis as well have expressed concerns about any rapprochement with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045481", "text": "Manufacturers say that the CCS technology that you're referring to isn't commercially available yet, and manufacturers in particular are worried about the added costs this will bring to their businesses.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045482", "text": "Josh, Israel is sharply escalating its role in the civil war in Syria with a new round of attacks, strikes there last night.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045483", "text": "And, lastly, a Michigan woman has been killed in fighting in Syria.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000045484", "text": "It would protect important investments in things like education and infrastructure that are so critical to our long-term economic strength.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045485", "text": "I think the biggest one is ending the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045486", "text": "TIFIA supports surface infrastructure and has been increased by seven fold over the last two years.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045487", "text": "So we have a tremendous need, I think a bipartisan need, for more investment in infrastructure.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045488", "text": "Sexual violence, including gang rape, has occurred during recent demonstrations in Egypt, and this is a cause of great concern to the United States, the international community, and to many Egyptians.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000045489", "text": "Next weekend, there will be a meeting of our NATO allies in Brussels where defense ministers from those allies will be participating in discussions about our drawdown in Iraq -- I mean, in Afghanistan -- will be participating in discussions about our drawdown in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045490", "text": "Finally, one thing that the President has talked about pretty extensively is his concern about the shortage of gasoline and other fuel in the area.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000045491", "text": "You mentioned from the podium the other day -- this is on infrastructure -- you mentioned from the podium that he was taking input from the top members of his Jobs Council on retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045492", "text": "President Obama has repeatedly renewed the trade embargo with Cuba, pressured the Castro regime to give its people more of a say in their own future, and supported democracy movements on the island.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000045493", "text": "As you know, as a Nevada expert, another major issue here is housing.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000045494", "text": "As you know, the President has made education a top priority of his presidency.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045495", "text": "Josh, on Afghanistan, the President said yesterday that he planned to raise the issue of green-on-blue violence with President Karzai.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045496", "text": "He's made education a top priority from the first day of his presidency.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045497", "text": "Bulletin -- hang on one second -- the U.N. peacekeeping chief says Syria conflict is now a civil war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045498", "text": "The President remains very concerned about the situation in Syria, about the horrific violence that's being perpetrated by the Assad regime against the Syrian people.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045499", "text": "When this President took office, the nation of Iran was unified behind their goal, their stated goal of pursuing a nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045500", "text": "And currently has elements supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045501", "text": "Fort Stewart has been a leader across the military by providing extensive educational counseling in order to protect its service members against the aggressive and deceptive recruiting, serving as a model for other bases.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045502", "text": "Josh, the UN Special Envoy has found Syria in violation of the peace agreement there.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045503", "text": "As it relates to Syria, we have frequently noted and condemned and mourned the tragic loss of innocent life in that country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045504", "text": "Just in the last six months, we've signed trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia that would create or support 70, 000 American jobs here at home.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045505", "text": "The kind of violence and sectarian strife that we've seen in Syria has spilled over into Iraq, and it has had a destabilizing impact on that regime and on that country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045506", "text": "So the President is going to do what he can -- in this case, consider an executive order that would ban discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000045507", "text": "And President-elect Poroshenko underscored the importance of Ukraine undertaking reforms to root out corruption and to modernize Ukraine's economy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045508", "text": "In terms of the meeting, I think they'll focus on Ukraine, building on the conversations that happened at the G7.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045509", "text": "So, generally -- and on Ukraine, they have moved to sanctions with us.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045510", "text": "Well, look, I think we've made democracy a central part of our approach in every region that we operate.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045511", "text": "But I would say that democracy is a fundamental interest of the United States.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045512", "text": "Just quickly, first of all, on Ukraine we believe the most important element coming out of this G7 is that all of the G7 countries are aligned in the messages that they're sending to Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045513", "text": "Just very quickly on some of the other issues, I'd only highlight, again, energy and climate was a particularly important area of focus.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045514", "text": "So Russia needs to know that the U.S. and Europe are serious about this, and that, then we'd discuss what the range is between targeted and sectoral sanctions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045515", "text": "And frankly, again, our military has made clear its commitment to the principle that we don't leave service members behind.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045516", "text": "So if you drop out of high school today, you're basically condemned to poverty and social failure.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000045517", "text": "So whether it's our highway system, our rail system, our aviation system for that matter, we must have 21st century technology and investments in order to ensure that we can move goods efficiently and effectively across the globe.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045518", "text": "So the TIGER program -- over 270 projects, all over 50 states around this country -- has had a tremendous outsized impact on building infrastructure in this country.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045519", "text": "As the process moves forward, the United States calls on all parties in Ukraine and in the region to support reconciliation and the country's return to political and economic health.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045520", "text": "China has failed to live up to their promised U.S. imports from the trade agreement done with the previous administration.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045521", "text": "On the border, there is suggestion that part of the reason granting some of the vaccines to Mexico is getting help with Central American migration.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045522", "text": "The President's campaign was about fighting for democracy, and we're going to continue to fight for democracy from the White House.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045523", "text": "So, Jonathan, you know, this infrastructure bill is -- infrastructure, as we know, has been a bipartisan issue -- right? -- when it comes to Democrats and Republicans.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045524", "text": "This is an administration that follows science, and that's what we did.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000045525", "text": "The President firmly believes that critical investment in our future should be paid for.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045526", "text": "Since taking office, the administration has been regularly briefing Congress on Afghanistan, and that engagement will continue.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045527", "text": "We're not looking for conflict with China; we're looking for -- for competition, and we want to do that in a responsible way.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045528", "text": "The historic investment in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will provide more than $670 million for public transportation, making commutes easier so people can get to work and home faster.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045529", "text": "But he made clear if, in fact, that Putin invades Ukraine -- Russia invades Ukraine -- there will be severe consequences and severe economic consequences.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045530", "text": "When we put the Build Back Better Agenda and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, this -- those two components will have a historical investment on fighting climate change.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045531", "text": "So, one of the big criticisms from the six members of the advisory board who wrote criticism of the White House strategy was that a lack of adequate surveillance is putting Americans at risk.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000045532", "text": "And he'll note that these investments in our infrastructure have been bipartisan priorities for decades.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045533", "text": "Ukraine has asked to join the NATO Alliance.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045534", "text": "His trip also emphasizes the importance of Ukraine passing key legislation to advance the rule of law, anti-corruption, and economic reforms that will strengthen Ukraine's democracy and economy, and further Euro-Atlantic integration.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045535", "text": "Well, a lot of employers -- there's in the news -- they're struggling to find workers despite high unemployment still.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000045536", "text": "Over 30 countries, representing well over half the world's economy, have announced sanctions and export controls on Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045537", "text": "We prohibited transactions with Central Bank of Russia, the single most important financial institution in Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045538", "text": "So, again, you know, this is -- this is a war of choice by President Putin.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045539", "text": "But this is -- this is President Putin's war that he has started.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045540", "text": "According to the Institute of International Finance, inflation in Russia is projected to spike about -- above 20 percent and the Russian government rating has been downgraded to junk status by major credit rating agencies.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000045541", "text": "As the President said yesterday, the first cause was the pandemic -- the bottlenecks that has caused around -- that has caused around the globe.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045542", "text": "And so, what Ukraine is doing is they are defending themselves and their democracy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045543", "text": "That's why President Biden is oppose -- opposed any proposal to raise the gas tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000045544", "text": "So, as the President said during his speech before a joint session of Congress, in -- in the very place that had been des- -- desecrated during the insurrection, the events of January 6th represented an existential crisis of our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045545", "text": "And so, President Biden is calling for a historic investment in affordability through subsidized tuition and expanding institutional and -- grants.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045546", "text": "He wants to make sure that infrastructure -- this investment, this historic investment -- this agreement that was made today is done.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045547", "text": "But he also wants to make sure that his investment in people -- the human investment, as he has called it -- is also done.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045548", "text": "While no decision has been finalized, I will say that the attestation of vaccination for federal employees is one option under strong consideration.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000045549", "text": "Since the previous administration ceased U.S. participation in the deal, Iran has rapidly accelerated its nuclear program and reduced cooperation with international inspectors in nonperformance of JCPO- -- commitments.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045550", "text": "I think -- two things to say on COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000045551", "text": "Thanks in part to the critical role of the United States and American leadership and, in particular, President Biden's Earth Day Summit, we've had a real jolt of energy in this effort over the course of this year.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045552", "text": "Obviously, we believe that NATO, as an alliance, should very much be conceived of and encouraged towards a deep commitment to the democratic traditions and values that have underpinned it since the beginning.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045553", "text": "What we're seeing, it is not -- it is due to coming out of the pandemic -- the labor shortage coming out of the pandemic and then dealing with that, but it's not due to vaccine mandates or requirements.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045554", "text": "And we've sent a clear message to China about the implications and consequences of any such provision of military equipment.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045555", "text": "And I really can't characterize my level of comfort with that out one way or the other; it's something we just have to maintain vigilance about.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000045556", "text": "First, Russia posed both publicly and privately this proposition that Iran should somehow be entirely carved out of the sanctions regime, which was not accepted by any of the parties.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045557", "text": "So the only question of sanctions as it relates to Russia in the context of the JCPOA is about sanctions on Iran being able to, for example, cooperate with the Russian Atomic Energy authorities to ship out their enriched uranium.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045558", "text": "It would not create a significant economic opportunity for Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045559", "text": "Jake, President Zelenskyy said he thinks Russia wants to invade other Eastern European countries.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045560", "text": "From my perspective, off-ramp is the wrong concept -- because, of course, this was a war Putin chose to wage; it's a war Putin could choose to stop.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045561", "text": "The President talked about military aid today, but Ukraine says it needs $5 billion a month to support its government.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045562", "text": "We are committed to continuing to provide Ukraine with weapons and equipment that they are using so effectively to defend their country.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045563", "text": "So, first, you know, we've made a lot of progress on COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000045564", "text": "Millions of borrowers were nega- -- negatively impacted by the pandemic and faced the risk of default on their student loans due to that emergency.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045565", "text": "Look, when the pandemic hit, red and blue states were dealing with fragile, outdated technology.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045566", "text": "The crew, which is the first to fly around the Moon in more than 50 years, will include the first woman, the first person of color, and the first international crew member on a lunar mission.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000045567", "text": "Look, the rule of law is a bedrock principle of our democracy, and we're going to respect that.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045568", "text": "And he just successfully protected the most significant climate investment in our history through the -- protecting the Inflation Reduction Act from Republican efforts to roll that back and cut it.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045569", "text": "The President's view on border security, on what it takes to secure the southern border, and illegal immigration, and the flow of drugs across our southern border hasn't changed.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045570", "text": "We need to secure that border and make sure that folks can't travel across it illegally.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045571", "text": "We've seen China restrict energy shipments to North Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045572", "text": "Securing the border is one of the most vital functions of the government and a core part of any routine funding bill.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045573", "text": "In fact, on a historical note, the first meeting between the leaders of China and Taiwan took place in Singapore some years back.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045574", "text": "And this action kind of goes to show that Iran is not a trustworthy actor.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045575", "text": "President Trump is committed to ending the previous administration's war on coal, which is really a war on our coal miners.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045576", "text": "Look, the number-one priority for education with the President has been consistent from day one.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045577", "text": "This executive order doesn't address any employment specifically.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000045578", "text": "We'll lower those premiums and make healthcare easier for everybody.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000045579", "text": "Today, the Senate passed new sanctions on Iran and then also on Russia as well.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045580", "text": "As far as hacking, I think it was Russia, but I think we also get hacked by other countries and other people.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045581", "text": "Sarah, you've been asked multiple times today about the war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045582", "text": "There is a concern about that food actually getting to the people of Korea, as Secretary Powell stated yesterday.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000045583", "text": "And so they said that they -- the North Koreans stated that the agreements were, in their view, null and void by their own actions, so this is something that North Korea has this is action that has been taken by the North Korean regime.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045584", "text": "First of all, there are clear differences on the war on terrorism and our support for our military.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045585", "text": "Well, the President made a decision based on science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000045586", "text": "And one thing that -- one real important step we took to make the tax code simpler was to eliminate the death tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000045587", "text": "First, the Senator voted for the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045588", "text": "And they talked about the importance of relations -- of our relationship with China -- the President talked about the importance of our relationship with China, as well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045589", "text": "And then, of course, you have NATO, that's made a strong commitment to help provide training for Iraqi security forces.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045590", "text": "Today, the people of Afghanistan have been liberated, and that threat has been removed.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045591", "text": "Today Pakistan is working with us to win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045592", "text": "It was a country that was supporting terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045593", "text": "Monday, July 12th, the President will make remarks on the war on terrorism at Oakridge, Tennessee.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045594", "text": "And then he will make remarks and talk about the broader war on terrorism and our efforts to defeat the terrorists and stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045595", "text": "And so I think it will be important for NATO to answer those calls and respond to their request and help them in that way.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045596", "text": "It runs counter to the commitments Iran has made to the international community, and it shows a continued defiance of the international community by Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045597", "text": "It is part of winning the war on terrorism and advancing freedom in the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045598", "text": "In terms of Iran, I think the President has made our views very clear in terms of our policy towards Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045599", "text": "We've made it very clear that Iran must not be allowed to engage in any enrichment and reprocessing activity within its own territory.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045600", "text": "We are waging a global war on terrorism to make the world safer and make America more secure.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045601", "text": "Senator Kerry is calling again today for NATO to make Iraq part of its mission.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045602", "text": "This is a global war that we are fighting in close cooperation with many nations, and we will continue to do so.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045603", "text": "We are at war and if the terrorists weren't carrying out their evil in one place, they'd be carrying it out somewhere else.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045604", "text": "We are also making important progress in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045605", "text": "The two leaders discussed the war on terrorism, Iraq, the Middle East, and Prime Minister Blair's upcoming visit, which you all already have the announcement on from earlier today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045606", "text": "Well, one, again, those are issues that our military is addressing.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045607", "text": "No, I think it's as Secretary Rumsfeld described it; it's another moment on the road to democracy and freedom for the Iraqi people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045608", "text": "Again, you're asking about troop level support; those are questions to direct to the military -- I'm asking about the President's view of this.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045609", "text": "There are those who are opposed to democracy and freedom in Iraq.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045610", "text": "You said the U.N. has a vital role to play.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045611", "text": "Actually, I think that moving forward on democracy and sovereignty and the economy in Iraq helps bring about greater security for the Iraqi people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045612", "text": "We'll continue working with leaders in Afghanistan to help them move forward on those elections.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045613", "text": "We have made -- we have taken significant steps to win the war on terrorism and protect the homeland.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045614", "text": "The terrorists declared war on the civilized world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045615", "text": "So I think, you know, tomorrow, he'll put the war on terrorism in context and talk about its scope.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045616", "text": "Well, certainly they have been standing with us in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045617", "text": "There are many different missions in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045618", "text": "But no, I'm talking about the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045619", "text": "Well, one, I think you're seeing democracy in action.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045620", "text": "And the President's leadership is vital to winning the war on terrorism and making the world safer, and making America more secure.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045621", "text": "And one important part of expanding job growth here at home is to continue to promote free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045622", "text": "They also, as the President talked about, discussed the global war on terrorism, including the latest attack in Indonesia.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045623", "text": "So again, the President agreed to -- for additional investment in the lithium ion battery technology, to accelerate that process.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045624", "text": "And we are making great progress in winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045625", "text": "I also expect he will talk about the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045626", "text": "It was a positive development that North Korea agreed to those talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045627", "text": "We are taking the war to al Qaeda and going after them where they are, and bringing them to justice.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045628", "text": "We have made great progress in the war on terrorism, and we will continue to pursue them wherever they may be and bring them to justice.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045629", "text": "So the United States and our allies, the global coalition, have denied al Qaeda its sanctuary in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045630", "text": "We are working closely with the Saudis in the war on terrorism, including ongoing investigations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045631", "text": "Is it safe to assume North Korea -- I think it'll cover the gamut of foreign policy priorities across the world.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045632", "text": "And President Musharraf has been a strong partner in our global war on terrorism and we are continuing to work with him on our global efforts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045633", "text": "And certainly, when it comes to North Korea, they are probably the most serious proliferator of missiles and related technologies.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045634", "text": "Iraq is critical to winning the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045635", "text": "You talk about the importance of winning the war on terror and Iraq's role in that, but you obviously haven't got control of Iraq yet.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045636", "text": "We did not start this war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045637", "text": "And our military is doing an outstanding job in confronting this threat and eliminating this threat.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045638", "text": "But our presence there is inviting more terrorism, some people are arguing.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045639", "text": "The President said at the start of the war on terrorism that you're either with us or you're with the terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045640", "text": "And we're sitting here talking about the war on terrorism;", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045641", "text": "We already have these authorities to go after organized crime, to go after drug traffickers.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000045642", "text": "Iraq is critical to winning the war on terrorism, and a peaceful and free Iraq will serve as an example for the rest of the Middle East.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045643", "text": "Iraq is central to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045644", "text": "The five nations made it very clear that North Korea must verifiably and irreversibly end its nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045645", "text": "From North Korea to Iran, we are making important progress in a multilateral way.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045646", "text": "We have the international community calling on Iran to comply with the IAEA and open up to more intensive inspections.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045647", "text": "China and North Korea have agreed to -- in principle to restart the six-party discussions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045648", "text": "Well, one, I think you need to talk to the military in the region about who is responsible for recent attacks.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045649", "text": "But what we're focused on is winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045650", "text": "And the way you win the war is by taking the fight to the enemy, doing what the President is doing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045651", "text": "We are waging a global war with countries all across the world against terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045652", "text": "We will prevail in this central front in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045653", "text": "In the out-years there aren't any accommodations for the war in Iraq, additional hurricane relief, or the effects of the AMT.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045654", "text": "Two, we should -- it's important for everybody to promote tolerance and respect for people of all backgrounds and of all religious faiths.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000045655", "text": "He will focus on the importance of expanding free trade and opening markets.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045656", "text": "That's why our military continues to stay on the offensive and take the fight to these terrorists.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045657", "text": "The action that the President is taking in the war on terrorism is about making the world a safer and better place and making America more secure.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045658", "text": "Well, as you saw over the weekend in Saudi Arabia, the global war on terrorism continues.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045659", "text": "The President has always said that it will be a long war and it will require sustained effort.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045660", "text": "What they focused on was moving forward on winning the war on terrorism and a number of other important issues that they're addressing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045661", "text": "MR No, we continue to look forward to discussing the war on terrorism, because of how important it is to the long-term security of America and the safety and security of the American people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045662", "text": "MR Winning the war on terrorism, protecting the homeland and strengthening our economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045663", "text": "The United States appreciates Estonia's support in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045664", "text": "Both leaders also reiterated the importance of tolerance and respect for religions of all faith, and freedom of press.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000045665", "text": "And on Thursday, he'll make remarks on the global war on terrorism, in D.C.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045666", "text": "Iran is calling for a return to the nuclear talks.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045667", "text": "The steps that the regime in Iran announced are a serious escalation of the matter.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045668", "text": "Yet Iran is showing yet again that they are going to ignore the demands of the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045669", "text": "He's going to continue talking about the war on terrorism and how Iraq is central to prevailing in that war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045670", "text": "We're engaged in an ongoing war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045671", "text": "We are engaged in a different kind of war against a different kind of enemy, and we have to be able to adapt in order to face that enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045672", "text": "They talked about China and economic and trade issues related to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045673", "text": "They also had a lengthy discussion about education over lunch, and the importance of education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045674", "text": "There's certainly -- the infrastructure is going to be significant in terms of cost, repairing the infrastructure will be significant in terms of cost.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045675", "text": "And Iran made a commitment, the Paris agreement with the Europeans, not to restart their uranium and reprocessing activities - uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities while the talks were ongoing.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045676", "text": "It's important for Iran to live up to that commitment and abide by it.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045677", "text": "And we've worked very closely with Colombia in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045678", "text": "Health information technology is an important part of making health care better, as well as making it more affordable.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045679", "text": "And one way that we can help support younger democracies in our own hemisphere is to continue to advance trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045680", "text": "But he's going to talk about the broader war on terrorism, talk specifically, I think, about Iraq as part of that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045681", "text": "We want to make sure that the southern border is as secure as it can be.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045682", "text": "I mean, I think Russia has stated that they are committed to moving out of those bases.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045683", "text": "They did talk about Iran -- I think Steve pointed out that Russia has been supportive of the efforts that are going on by the Europeans.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045684", "text": "Iran made a commitment to our European friends that during the negotiations that they would suspend all their enrichment and reprocessing-related activity.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045685", "text": "First of all, all parties in the region have made it clear to North Korea that they want to see a nuclear-free peninsula.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045686", "text": "North Korea previously made a commitment to come back to the six-party talks so that we can move forward on the proposal that we previously outlined.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045687", "text": "But I think in terms of our views on Iran, I mean, they are well known.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045688", "text": "They are making tremendous sacrifices in the global war on terrorism and we are forever grateful for those sacrifices.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045689", "text": "They also talked about Lebanon and Syria; they talked about the importance of helping democracy succeed in a sovereign Lebanon.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045690", "text": "You all may not be aware of this, but there was a CH-47, Chinook helicopter with American troops on board that went down in Afghanistan, the indications from the military are that it was a result of bad weather.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045691", "text": "Education is an important part of building a free society that respects the rights of all people, men and women.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000045692", "text": "This is a comprehensive energy plan that will reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy; it will make America more energy self-sufficient.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045693", "text": "And we continue to urge North Korea to come back to the talks so we can talk about the way forward.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045694", "text": "And it also talks about Iran's -- the concerns about Iran's record on human rights and democracy.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045695", "text": "Both Syria and Iran have international obligations and they need to abide by the commitments they have made to the international community.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045696", "text": "Denmark is a close ally in the war on terror and a valued partner in advancing freedom around the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045697", "text": "And this -- health information technology is part of the President's overall health care agenda to improve the quality of care and reduce costs and make health care more accessible for all Americans.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045698", "text": "I think our views are very clear about Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045699", "text": "Iran needs to follow through on the recent agreement they came to with our European friends.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045700", "text": "MR Obviously, the International Atomic Energy Agency looks at all the issues related to Iran and its nuclear programs.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045701", "text": "Well, the international community is united in its resolve to make sure Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045702", "text": "MR Well, look, Iran has made commitments to the international community, and they need to follow through on those commitments.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045703", "text": "They knew where they stood on the war on terrorism and the economy and health care.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045704", "text": "Our military will remain on the offensive to prevail in the war on terrorism, and that's where our focus is.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045705", "text": "The President's first speech today will focus on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045706", "text": "Senator Kerry ignores the root cause of terrorism, and has no plan for addressing the root cause of terrorism that led to the attacks on September 11th.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045707", "text": "A top nuclear official says Iran has converted a few tons of raw uranium into gas needed for enrichment.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045708", "text": "We've made it very clear what Iran needs to do.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045709", "text": "Can I ask you about -- the President gave his speech yesterday about the war on terror and Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045710", "text": "And that's why we are waging a comprehensive war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045711", "text": "We are a nation that is still at war, and it's important that the President speak with clarity and show resolve.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045712", "text": "Like I said, it's a conversation, so I suspect he will talk some about the war on terrorism, on Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045713", "text": "And certainly our troops are making tremendous sacrifices in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045714", "text": "There are clear choices in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045715", "text": "He also met with the Ambassador of Russia and the head of the American Red Cross and some students and teachers here locally, who are in D.C. locally, who have been helping the Russian people following the barbaric terrorist attack in Beslan.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045716", "text": "Three fairly dim scenarios, ranging from civil war to delaying -- the most optimistic said that we probably --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045717", "text": "We stand side-by-side with Russia in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045718", "text": "We are winning the war on terrorism and we will win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045719", "text": "You hear him talk about how we have liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq; Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for terrorists; and Iraq -- a brutal regime has been removed from power in Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045720", "text": "Pakistan is now fighting with us in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045721", "text": "So we're winning the war on terrorism, we're dismantling the al Qaeda network, and we will win it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045722", "text": "It requires a generational commitment to win this war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045723", "text": "And I think he was speaking as a veteran -- Commissioner Patterson was speaking as one of those veterans.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000045724", "text": "Well, I think he was speaking as a veteran, Dana.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000045725", "text": "And people are saying that it could threaten recession, et cetera, a very serious problem.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000045726", "text": "I saw comments by Russia expressing concern about the behavior of the regime in the discussions with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045727", "text": "That transitional government is moving forward on drafting a constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000045728", "text": "In the area of trade, the leaders gave a strong push to advancing the Doha development agenda, and moving forward with trade as being a key component of economic development and poverty alleviation.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045729", "text": "We are engaged in a global war on terrorism, and I think the international community recognizes that this is a struggle against an extreme ideology.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045730", "text": "And the reserve works to increase the understanding of ecology by investigating coastal environments, and through community partnerships, the reserve promotes wide stewardship of vital resources throughout the Gulf of Maine.", "issue": "ecology"}
{"id": "0000045731", "text": "And that is key to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045732", "text": "Again, as was previously stated, this is a significant victory in the global war on terrorism and a devastating blow to the enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045733", "text": "He will provide an update on the war on terrorism and talk about the important work that we are doing both in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere in the world to win the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045734", "text": "This is an important cause, it's a just cause, that's part of our global war on terrorism and bringing democracy and security and freedom to Iraq will help bring peace and stability to the Middle East.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045735", "text": "Well, there's an issue about the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000045736", "text": "And, again, technology is going to be important to that.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045737", "text": "Trade is much more significant for these countries, in terms of giving people livelihoods and incomes.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000045738", "text": "For us, the Americas has a broader commitment to democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045739", "text": "But it also needs to address issues like corruption and labor market issues, especially labor market flexibility.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000045740", "text": "We already have priorities in nano-technology, for example, and high-end computing -- the networking and information technology is a major initiative.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045741", "text": "There's lots of other science that's important, and there are lots of other initiatives in other agencies that are important for our country.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000045742", "text": "But like I said, the enemies of freedom and the enemies of the institutions of democracy have used excuses before, and conversely, have not needed excuses to attack.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045743", "text": "One, as I recall, Rumsfeld had previously offered his resignation, the President refused that.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000045744", "text": "And working with North Korea on that issue, we expect the North Koreans to live up to the agreement that they made on February 13th.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045745", "text": "The United States has been working with North Korea in terms of the removal of the fuel rods and making sure that that's done safely and securely.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045746", "text": "But what we're seeing in Afghanistan is a very determined enemy that is switching its tactics to more attacks on the civilian population.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045747", "text": "And the U.S. wants the U.N. to be as effective as it can be and to address important matters of international peace and security.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045748", "text": "You know, energy certainly is a topic that does come up when the President speaks with leaders in that region.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045749", "text": "Well, I can't speak for the U.N., Andre, but in terms of our position, the decision -- our position hasn't changed, obviously.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045750", "text": "Whoever perpetuated this violence was someone who was an enemy of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045751", "text": "But certainly whoever perpetrated this attack is an enemy of democracy, and has used a tactic which al Qaeda is very familiar with, and that is suicide bombing and the taking of innocent life to try to disrupt a democratic process.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045752", "text": "And incidentally, I think education is a bright spot, one of the bright spots in New Orleans.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045753", "text": "Certainly the nation's infrastructure is important to all of us, and we need to have a very thoughtful discussion on how we move forward and take care of that infrastructure in the future.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045754", "text": "What I'm perceiving now, the next biggest issue is going to be housing.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000045755", "text": "So no one is -- and I want to just really emphasize this -- this is not an issue of lecturing Russia, it is that the United States and Russia have a deep and broad relationship.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045756", "text": "And the issue of common values and how Russia's democracy progresses is one of the issues on the agenda, an important issue on the agenda.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045757", "text": "Obviously, it starts with the cooperation in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045758", "text": "But with China, there's obviously a bunch of issues of mutual concern, like North Korea, for example, and their nuclear ambitions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045759", "text": "He's hammering away on the Iraq war pretty hard.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045760", "text": "Following up on that, almost every speaker aside from the President called on the U.S. to stop its embargo of Cuba.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000045761", "text": "So it was a positive day for Ukraine and also I think a positive day for NATO in that respect.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000045762", "text": "And the other thing the President has said many times is enhancing of the capabilities of NATO is a good thing, not a bad thing for Russia, because we increasingly face common threats that are a threat both to Russia and NATO states.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045763", "text": "And I think that North Korea has shown that, really, they are the ones that are putting forward preconditions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045764", "text": "Obviously, Syria was on the agenda, and the importance of our bilateral as well as regional cooperation to deal with the threat that Assad's continued atrocities pose to all of us but also dealing with the extremist threat were on the agenda.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045765", "text": "And with NATO he will discuss specific steps that we are taking to reinforce and reassure the security of our Eastern European allies.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045766", "text": "There's no question that NATO is prepared to defend any ally against any aggression.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045767", "text": "He'll talk a little bit about the challenge of promoting democracy in countries -- big countries, in particular, where we have a complex relationship and a number of interests -- countries like China and Russia; so he'll talk a little bit about that.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045768", "text": "One thing, Russia in with China now -- lumping Russia in with China and talking about a complex relationship.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045769", "text": "We have been transparent with Russia on missile defense and our thinking, and we have on many occasions over many years tried to get Russia to cooperate with us on missile defense because we think it is a natural part of our counterproliferation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045770", "text": "They discussed Afghanistan; the border relationship, the U.S.-Canada border relationship; issues like the Western Hemisphere Initiative, land pre-clearance.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045771", "text": "On Afghanistan, the two leaders shared their respective assessments of the situation in that country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045772", "text": "President Lee has spoken about a global Korea -- that was his phrase -- and the G20, I think, is an important watershed in the developments of this global Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045773", "text": "I will highlight particularly on issues relating to North Korea and the six-party talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045774", "text": "On China, since day one we have had a clear-eyed and realistic assessment of what can be done in the China relationship.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045775", "text": "There are a whole host of policies that China will be undertaking and should be undertaking to rebalance its demand towards domestic sources of growth.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045776", "text": "We are -- we'll be working with Russia, with the EU, and with the other members of the multilateral process to try and move this process forward towards their accession as early as possible.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045777", "text": "It is very important to see China move forward on its commitment to a market-determined exchange rate that reflects market fundamentals.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045778", "text": "The administration is obviously -- has obvious conflicts with China on aspects of economic policy, exports.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045779", "text": "We were pleased to visit China last year and we continue to have close cooperation with the Chinese on some issues, even as we disagree on others.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045780", "text": "And I think it speaks to the strength of democracy in Asia.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045781", "text": "And the most important thing, again, is that everyone gets the vaccine when it is their turn.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000045782", "text": "Yes, and as I said, we support refugee activities through the U.N. and through other organizations, but I'm not aware of specific details on refugee -- what we're supporting in terms of refugee activities on the borders of Iraq.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045783", "text": "Today in Southern California at Robinson Helicopter Company he'll be talking about the importance of trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045784", "text": "Tomorrow in Las Vegas he will discuss the global war on terror and discuss FISA reform and the need to get that legislation passed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045785", "text": "But anyone who thinks that the threat from Iran has receded or diminished is naive and is not paying attention to the facts.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045786", "text": "Iranian leaders are saying that; that it wants compensation for the sanctions.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000045787", "text": "Some of the issues that I ran through yesterday, certainly Afghanistan as the number one operational priority for NATO, and certainly America's highest priority for NATO is progress in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045788", "text": "Tony, NATO has called for Russia to rescind its recognition.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045789", "text": "MR I think everyone has called on Russia to rescind its decision.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045790", "text": "So I think Russia has gotten the message.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045791", "text": "And at the same time, if you're not filling the SPR, you're not making that investment in our national security.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045792", "text": "On Wednesday, March 19th, the President makes remarks on the global war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045793", "text": "The most important determinant of one's wages is one's education, and that's why the President is committed to No Child Left Behind, which is working.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045794", "text": "South Korea, as you know, is a long-term and staunch ally of this nation, that has stood side by side with us in defense of freedom around the world.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045795", "text": "Another key element of this transformation of our presence in Korea is a planned transition of wartime operational control to the Republic of Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045796", "text": "South Korea is playing a key role in these negotiations, and President Lee has repeatedly said that South Korea's policies with the North will hinge in part on progress on denuclearization.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045797", "text": "The President, this afternoon after the commencement address, will spend time with family members of fallen military -- members of fallen military families, thank you.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045798", "text": "I mean, what is the state of our -- are we concerned about our -- the drug --", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000045799", "text": "It's been a major sea change in education in this country, and we can't let the boulder roll back down the hill.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045800", "text": "Historically speaking, you have relatively low inflation, relatively low interest rates, relatively low -- in fact, historically low unemployment rates.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000045801", "text": "The report on the war in Lebanon just came out fairly critical of his handling of it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045802", "text": "The goal is to win the war on terror, and what are the consequences of losing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045803", "text": "He will make reference to the role of trade and free trade agreements have had in making that port even more prosperous and bustling.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045804", "text": "And, in addition, they've been talking with the government of Syria because it is pretty clear that Syria has considerable influence over what goes on there.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045805", "text": "Democracy becomes strong when people feel free to express their views and also to pursue causes that are important to them.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000045806", "text": "Tony, North Korea is threatening nuclear war if the United States should carry out a strike.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045807", "text": "I mean, in a time of war --", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045808", "text": "At this point, the NATO force in Afghanistan has enjoyed considerable battlefield success.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045809", "text": "His other accomplishments include having written two books on the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045810", "text": "Genetic analysis so far has shown no obvious significant mutations in the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000045811", "text": "Last year, Secretary Rice authorized Ambassador Khalilzad to hold talks with Iran about our concerns regarding the security situation in Iraq and how they might play a more constructive role.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045812", "text": "Similarly, he had this mandate as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, and exercised that mandate during his tenure in Kabul.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045813", "text": "The current Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ron Neumann, has also met with his Iranian counterpart to discuss issues related to Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045814", "text": "He said, We're at war with an enemy and we've got to protect ourselves, and obviously the Guantanamo issue is a sensitive issue for people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045815", "text": "And also we had cited other concerns in terms of democracy and human rights.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045816", "text": "Sir, in view of the criticism, recent criticism leveled at Russia, I want to ask you about the record of the current administration here at home --", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045817", "text": "Again, he doesn't think you fence-off the entire border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045818", "text": "They also discussed Iran and the need for a U.N. Security Council resolution to make clear everyone's agreement that Iran should not be developing nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045819", "text": "It'll touch on everything from the global war on terror to economics to working on North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045820", "text": "And on the economic side, and also on fighting a war on terror, our people have done some pretty astounding things over the last five years.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045821", "text": "One is winning the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045822", "text": "But if the quotes are accurate, it means that they're at war with the advice that they gave some time ago.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045823", "text": "The second point, working with leaders to disarm militias and develop a broad-based and sustainable political settlement -- again, implicit in that is the importance of a successful democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045824", "text": "In other words, they're all for winning the war on terror, but they're all against -- they're against providing the tools for winning that war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045825", "text": "Since February of 2003, obviously, we have come a long way in the war on terror, and the enemy has also responded in numerous ways.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045826", "text": "We have less state sponsors of terrorism today than we did at the beginning of the President's first term.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045827", "text": "That said, the state sponsorship of terrorism as a tool to execute and implement foreign policy objectives is unacceptable, and the President will speak to that.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045828", "text": "We have enjoyed many successes in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045829", "text": "We have undertaken efforts to protect critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045830", "text": "Obviously, NATO has a very important mission in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045831", "text": "Well, it's interesting, the Iraqis don't talk of it as a civil war; the unity government doesn't talk of it as a civil war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045832", "text": "Similarly, Iran ought to have an interest in having a unified and a stable Iraq, and a good relationship with the Iraqis.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045833", "text": "I think it's clear what Iran needs to be doing in both of them.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045834", "text": "And the issue is not really one of talking; the issue is one of decisions by Iran to change their policies.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045835", "text": "But in the past, you were willing to talk to Iran about Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045836", "text": "He's not saying the war is over.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045837", "text": "You make it sound like Iran really isn't a big piece of the discussion tomorrow.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045838", "text": "And we feel that China is an important friend of the United States.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000045839", "text": "To transport yourself to Delhi for a moment, this is a great democracy with a long-standing democratic tradition, and India is a proud, sovereign country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045840", "text": "So in any event, he has particular concerns about the army, and those have been expressed.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000045841", "text": "And then on Friday, the 24th, he will make remarks on the global war on terror in Washington, and meet with the President of El Salvador at the White House.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045842", "text": "So the country is at war against a determined, patient, and ruthless enemy, and that enemy attacked America repeatedly and wants to do so again.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045843", "text": "Wednesday, January 4th, he will make a statement on the global war on terror at the Pentagon.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045844", "text": "And that will be to discuss the war on terror and our challenges in Iraq and winning the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045845", "text": "I think that the administration's views on Iran having a nuclear weapon are very well-known.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045846", "text": "This law provides a framework for continued cooperation among Iraq, members of the international coalition and the United Nations as the Iraqi people make progress towards democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045847", "text": "While difficult work remains to establish democracy in Iraq, today's signing is a critical step in that direction.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045848", "text": "Yesterday you were asked about U.S. policy vis a vis Iran, and you said that there was no change in policy as a result of Iran's acceptance of international aid.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045849", "text": "This is a war on terror that requires different thinking and a desire to connect the dots ahead of time.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045850", "text": "The Patriot Act is a vital tool in combating terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045851", "text": "It's a key tool for fighting terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045852", "text": "On Wednesday, December 14th, he will make remarks on the war on terror at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, December 15th, no public events scheduled.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045853", "text": "But North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to set aside its ambition for nuclear weapons, that the five nations are in consensus that there must be a nuclear free Korean peninsula.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045854", "text": "As you all know, the most important factor in determining one's compensation is your education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045855", "text": "And that's why the President from the beginning has talked about the importance of education; that's why he supported No Child Left Behind.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045856", "text": "On Tuesday, January 10th, the President will make remarks on the global war on terror at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045857", "text": "Wednesday, January 11th, he will have a discussion on the global war on terror in Louisville, Kentucky.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045858", "text": "And America is well aware that this is a war against terrorism and it's a global war against terrorism, and that it's necessary at this point to ensure that those who have fallen have not provided that sacrifice in vain.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045859", "text": "So he opposes the funding of religion; always has.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000045860", "text": "But particularly in a democracy, it is the responsibility of the Commander in Chief to openly and publicly discuss all sides of the issues that people raise.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045861", "text": "And certainly as you witness the military tactics and the precision manner in which the war is being conducted, that has implications for the extent of reconstruction necessary.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045862", "text": "He spent four years in jail and was released only after signing a pledge of allegiance to the regime and a promise not to write again.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000045863", "text": "They discussed the war on terrorism and Saudi Arabia's cooperation in the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045864", "text": "In other words, the recession has caused revenues to fall short of their targets.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000045865", "text": "Gore said the war on terrorism has -- through the war on terrorism the administration has been attacking civil liberties.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045866", "text": "One other thing, just today there were new signs from both Russia and France that they are not entirely pleased with the stance the United States and Britain are taking on Iraq.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045867", "text": "Of course, the President will talk about war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045868", "text": "The United States is preparing for war in case a decision is made to go to war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045869", "text": "And Turkey is facing this matter as every good democracy should, which is, a full discussion with the views of Turkish people in mind, with the security situation of Turkey in mind, and the economy of Turkey in mind.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045870", "text": "Yet in the end, Germany played a constructive role in NATO to make certain that our ally, Turkey, could be defended.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045871", "text": "Hamas' statements were that they are at war with Israel, their intention is to attack and to kill Israeli citizens.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045872", "text": "And of course, now, given the President's commitment, large commitment of $15 billion to the AIDS pandemic, we also hope to treat and save lives through the availability of anti-retrovirals.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045873", "text": "The President is a person who believes in free trade because he believes it's good for global growth.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000045874", "text": "On the meeting with Koizumi, both leaders said for North Korea that they're looking for a peaceful solution to the issue.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045875", "text": "But both agreed that if North Korea continued to further escalate the situation, that tougher measures would be necessary.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045876", "text": "On North Korea again, the President said Japan agreed to participate in talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045877", "text": "Well, we think it would be productive of North Korea to be open to this.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045878", "text": "And all of the parties have made clear that North Korea must completely, verifiably, and irreversibly dismantle its nuclear program.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045879", "text": "The bill that he supports wouldn't allow for any kind of education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045880", "text": "I think that there are provisions for education and training counting toward the work hours.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000045881", "text": "We are very resolved to fight this war and we're united in our resolve.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045882", "text": "The President recognizes the significant challenges that this dangerous drug presents to the federal, state and especially local law enforcement.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000045883", "text": "Their representatives are working on a constitution that will be possibly the most important historic document of that country's history.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000045884", "text": "And Wednesday, August 24th, the President will make remarks on the war on terror, and that's in Nampa, Idaho.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045885", "text": "We're a nation still at war, a nation still having soldiers fighting in harm's way.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045886", "text": "Temporary housing is, obviously, a priority that people are starting to focus on more in Texas.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000045887", "text": "And in order for the Lebanese people -- in order to ensure that the Lebanese people have free and fair elections, Syria needs to get out.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045888", "text": "The international community is all saying to Syria that they need to comply with Security Council Resolution 1559, which calls for the immediate withdrawal of foreign forces inside Lebanon.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045889", "text": "On Tuesday, the President will make remarks on the war on terrorism at the National Defense University in Washington.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045890", "text": "North Korea violated the '94 agreed framework and pursued nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045891", "text": "I mean, that's just a misunderstanding of the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045892", "text": "And the war on terrorism is won by staying on the offensive and spreading freedom.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045893", "text": "And Senator Kerry showed a fundamental misunderstanding of the war on terrorism when he talked about basing his decisions about America's security on a global test.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045894", "text": "But what I was talking about, from the substantive standpoint of the differences over the war on terrorism, and that is the number one issue facing the American people, is how to lead in the war on terrorism to better protect the American people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045895", "text": "We are engaged in a global war on terrorism, and the men and women in the Guard are playing an important role in the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045896", "text": "The President is talking about how we confront today's war and how we lead in the global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045897", "text": "Well, what we saw over the last decade, under the 1994 agreed to framework was that North Korea had not abandoned its nuclear weapons ambitions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045898", "text": "Name one person who he called to lobby on behalf of legislation.", "issue": "lobby"}
{"id": "0000045899", "text": "They are serving and sacrificing in the war on terrorism, and we're grateful for their sacrifice and we're grateful for what their families are doing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045900", "text": "The President has outlined a clear strategy for winning the war on terrorism and defeating the ideologies of hatred.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045901", "text": "And that's how we will prevail in this war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045902", "text": "And I think -- NATO is -- my point about NATO is moving forward on helping to train Iraqi security forces, and that's important.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000045903", "text": "Well, some may say that, but I think the military has said otherwise.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045904", "text": "And Congress -- I think the military recognizes the important role the Congress has to play in these efforts, as well.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045905", "text": "Well, we work closely with them in the global war on terrorism, and we will continue to do so.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045906", "text": "And the President's steady leadership is vital to how we wage the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045907", "text": "And he will give an update on the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045908", "text": "They recognize that Iraq is the central war -- central front in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045909", "text": "Fort Polk has been supporting the war on terror by providing training for the Army's light infantry and Special Operation forces and by deploying home station forces in support of Operations Enduring Freedom, Noble Eagle and participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045910", "text": "We want to compare the intelligence before the war with what the Iraq Survey Group learns on the ground.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045911", "text": "Then we can compare what we knew before the war with what we learn on the ground from the Iraq Survey Group.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045912", "text": "We knew before the war and what we've learned today only reconfirms that it was the right decision.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045913", "text": "And, sure, energy is a shared priority of the two, or passing a comprehensive energy plan is a shared priority of the President and Senator Domenici.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000045914", "text": "And the best way to win the war on terrorism is to stay on the offensive and take the fight to the enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045915", "text": "But the best way to win this war is to take the fight to the enemy, and that's exactly what this President is doing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045916", "text": "And first and foremost, it's -- that is winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045917", "text": "And this President is acting decisively to win the war on terrorism by the actions that we are taking.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045918", "text": "Yes, his remarks will focus on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045919", "text": "That is the best way to win the war on terrorism and prevent an attack from happening in the first place.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045920", "text": "Did the President and the Indian Prime Minister talk about the arms deal with Russia -- MR I would describe the meeting as the way I did.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045921", "text": "That was an important role that the military can play, and that's part of the assessing the situation on the ground and providing that support to state and local authorities as well, and first responders.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045922", "text": "Then he talked to them about the war on terrorism, and the importance of the mission, and what we're working to accomplish in the global was that we're engaged in.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045923", "text": "That Bush led the war in Iraq, you know.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045924", "text": "First of all, our men and women in the military are serving and sacrificing in Iraq for an important cause, a cause that is making the world a safer and better place.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045925", "text": "Any time we lose a member of our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045926", "text": "Again, you want to talk to our military in terms of the resources being allocated to all our different priorities in Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045927", "text": "The two briefly discussed the war on terrorism and the Kandahar-Kabul highway.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045928", "text": "Well, remember, it was North Korea who told us that it was nullified, that they were in serious violation.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045929", "text": "The Council on Foreign Relations is releasing a report today saying that the war on terror is going to be severely crippled unless the U.S. addresses Saudi funding of terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045930", "text": "Other vehicles built by United Defense -- they've been playing a major role in the war on terrorism, including the M88A2 HERCULES, which stands for Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift and Evacuation System.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045931", "text": "And the plant's connection to the military dates back to World War II, when it built amphibious vehicles for armed forces fighting in the Pacific.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045932", "text": "Through the years it's built most of the combat vehicles the Army and Marine Corps have used, including the Bradley that fought in both Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000045933", "text": "The President has called on the U.N. to lift those sanctions.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000045934", "text": "And General Honore, in the briefing -- who, again, is the commander of Joint Task Force Katrina for the military -- talked about the plans for getting National Guard -- more National Guard troops into the area of the Convention Center.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045935", "text": "This rule change will not affect the dramatic reductions in air pollution that's going to occur through our programs.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000045936", "text": "We are also working to -- in fact, a good portion of this emergency spending request will go towards improving the infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000045937", "text": "Iraq is critical to winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045938", "text": "Terrorism is defeated through strength, by going on the offensive, by taking the fight to the terrorists.", "issue": "Terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045939", "text": "And those highest of priorities are winning the war on terrorism and strengthening our economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045940", "text": "The United States and Japan share concerns about broad issues involving North Korea and we look forward to continuing close coordination in dealing with those issues.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045941", "text": "Your readout doesn't have anything other than the North Korea -- I think the purpose of the call was as I just mentioned, and that's the information that I have.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045942", "text": "We've made that very clear to North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045943", "text": "The other parties have made it very clear to North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045944", "text": "The President thinks the all-volunteer military works best.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045945", "text": "I know there's a small business woman in there that spoke, and another businessman that talked about the importance of free market principles and so forth.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000045946", "text": "One, we do have concerns about North Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000045947", "text": "What our goal is, which is shared by the international community, is to see Syria get out of Lebanon, which is called for in Security Council Resolution 1559.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000045948", "text": "The main theme of the tour is to understand how technology is making our energy system more secure, more affordable, more reliable and more environmentally protective.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000045949", "text": "It's where the military wants to run electronics and surveillance without producing the heat and exhaust of normal fuel use.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045950", "text": "Now, in the context of the remarks, the President will draw some historical comparisons between the war that we were fighting then and the war that we are fighting -- the global war that we're engaged in now.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045951", "text": "What's important about today's announcement is the commitment by Iran, but what's most important is that Iran fully comply and now implement what they've committed to.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045952", "text": "MR Well, we've expressed a number of concerns about Iran and that's why I said it would be a step in the right direction.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045953", "text": "And those are what you see in a democracy and a government that's working to develop a very important document.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045954", "text": "He's continuing to focus on the war on terror and keeping Americans safe at home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045955", "text": "Afghanistan has reached a critical point in its stabilization.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045956", "text": "The U.S. has requested over $1.1 billion for Afghanistan in its 2007 budget request.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045957", "text": "In conjunction with the UN, the United States provided the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq $41 million to support a variety of election programs, including training of election administrators, logistics, voter education, public outreach and conflict mitigation.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000045958", "text": "Our cooperation in the fight against terrorism has continued unabated.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045959", "text": "Every American deserves access to quality, affordable health care - especially as we fight back against the COVID-19 pandemic, said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000045960", "text": "In June, the Justice Department announced a new policy to underscore zero tolerance for willful violations of the law by federally licensed firearms dealers that put public safety at risk.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000045961", "text": "In addition to public health concerns, President Trump understands the serious challenge this virus presents to American businesses, workers, and families.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000045962", "text": "Novel technologies are critical to help us screen these parcels for dangerous drugs like fentanyl, DHS Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology William N. Bryan said.", "issue": "Technology"}
{"id": "0000045963", "text": "The Parties acknowledge the important role of science, technology and innovation in the growth of multiple key sectors and shall strengthen joint action and mutual cooperation in scientific and technological advancement.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000045964", "text": "President Donald Trump's promise to build a wall along our Southern border will save countless innocent lives.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045965", "text": "A war to disarm a state became a fight against an insurgency.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045966", "text": "Terrorism and sectarian warfare threatened to tear Iraq apart.", "issue": "Terrorism"}
{"id": "0000045967", "text": "They have rejected sectarian war, and they have no interest in endless destruction.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045968", "text": "Ending this war is not only in Iraq's interest- it is in our own.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045969", "text": "As I have said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045970", "text": "The greatness of our democracy is grounded in our ability to move beyond our differences, and to learn from our experience as we confront the many challenges ahead.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000045971", "text": "Now, as we approach our 10th year of combat in Afghanistan, there are those who are understandably asking tough questions about our mission there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045972", "text": "Within Afghanistan, I have ordered the deployment of additional troops who-under the command of General David Petraeus -are fighting to break the Taliban's momentum.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000045973", "text": "And so at this moment, as we wind down the war in Iraq, we must tackle those challenges at home with as much energy, and grit, and sense of common purpose as our men and women in uniform who have served abroad.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045974", "text": "Because part of ending a war responsibly is standing by those who have fought it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045975", "text": "Some were teenagers when the war began.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045976", "text": "At home, our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000045977", "text": "The millions of gallons of oil that have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico are more like an epidemic, one that we will be fighting for months and even years.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000045978", "text": "We have joined with Russia to sign the most comprehensive arms control agreement in decades.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000045979", "text": "As part of our efforts on non-proliferation, I offered the Islamic Republic of Iran an extended hand last year, and underscored that it has both rights and responsibilities as a member of the international community.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000045980", "text": "Biden lauded GE for a $600 million investment that will create 800 jobs at Appliance Park by 2013.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045981", "text": "Obviously the recession has caused a tremendous amount of pain for individuals, but also for businesses trying to borrow money.'", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000045982", "text": "With this key Recovery Act infrastructure investment, Ohio will put people to work in cleaning up the region's water systems.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000045983", "text": "But the fight to end this devastating epidemic is not over.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000045984", "text": "The President's new era of engagement has led to concrete results at the UN that advance U.S. foreign policy objectives and American security.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000045985", "text": "The American free market system is unmatched in pushing the boundaries of science and technology, and our continued global leadership is dependent upon removing obstacles to achieve our full potential - -every person, every organization, every corner of our Nation.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000045986", "text": "As a result of this action, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' April Employment Situation report shows that nonfarm payroll employment fell by 20.5 million and the unemployment rate jumped 10.3 percentage points to 14.7 percent.", "issue": "Employment"}
{"id": "0000045987", "text": "These threats to national security include acts of terrorism and acts of war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000045988", "text": "In such situations, the first evidence of an attack may be when you notice symptoms of the disease caused by an agent exposure, and you should seek immediate medical attention for treatment.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000045989", "text": "This action, along with a companion 10 percent tariff on foreign aluminum imports, was taken in the interest of national security under the authority of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000045990", "text": "On the same day the steel tariff was announced, U.S. Steel's Chief Executive Officer Dave Burritt promised to immediately restart one of two blast furnaces along with its steel-making facilities at Granite City.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000045991", "text": "This long-awaited change to the definition of rape is a victory for women and men across the country whose suffering has gone unaccounted for over 80 years.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000045992", "text": "The revised definition includes any gender of victim or perpetrator, and includes instances in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity, including due to the influence of drugs or alcohol or because of age.", "issue": "gender"}
{"id": "0000045993", "text": "The longstanding, narrow definition of forcible rape, first established in 1927, is the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000045994", "text": "Unfortunately, the crisis at the southern border is one that only the federal government may truly solve.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045995", "text": "To the contrary, our president is protecting our country's borders through means contemplated by Congress and used many times by past presidents for matters less directly threatening than those present on the southern border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000045996", "text": "Those without a high school diploma experienced a 2.8 percentage point decrease in unemployment to a level of 12.6 percent, while those with only a high school diploma are now at an unemployment rate of 9.8 percent after experiencing a 1.0 percentage point decrease in August.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000045997", "text": "Fort Stewart has been a leader across the military by providing extensive educational counseling in order to protect its service members against aggressive and deceptive recruiting, serving as a model for other bases.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000045998", "text": "A military spouse of 37 years and a former Department of the Army civilian employee, Mrs. Petraeus also has extensive experience as a volunteer leader in military family programs.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000045999", "text": "Awarded the Bronze Star for service in Vietnam, she was forced to leave the military after becoming pregnant with her first child.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046000", "text": "The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have had a serious impact on America's children and those who care for them, from parents and teachers to child welfare workers and foster families.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046001", "text": "Prime Minister Maliki followed up with a separate visit to Syria later in August, during which the Syrian Government committed to implementing border control measures.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000046002", "text": "Moreover, Syria continues to provide safe-haven to Ba'athist insurgents and financiers, and may be providing support to extremist political elements who are opposed to political reconciliation.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000046003", "text": "A semiannual review of the Compact occurred at the U.N. on July 20, during which Iraq presented a report on key developments since the Compact was signed on May 3, 2007.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000046004", "text": "For example, former Ba'ath party members who served in the army have been granted pensions.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000046005", "text": "Education and training have been key ingredients in improving enforcement of the law.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000046006", "text": "The greatest constraints on independent operations are a shortage of trained leaders and immature logistics capability.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000046007", "text": "President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address legacy pollution and spur economic growth", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000046008", "text": "The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a critical investment not only in our nation's infrastructure, but an investment in the future of our country's workforce, said FAA Deputy Administrator A. Bradley Mims.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046009", "text": "This round of CRISI grants - one of the largest ever - is a major step forward for the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to revitalize and rebuild the country's infrastructure, said FRA Administrator Amit Bose.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046010", "text": "FEMA makes hazard mitigation program funds from coronavirus pandemic available nationwide", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046011", "text": "This significant investment will be available for natural hazard mitigation measures across the 59 major disaster declarations issued due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046012", "text": "Every state, tribe, and territory that received a major disaster declaration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be eligible to receive 4% of those disaster costs to invest in mitigation projects that reduce risks from natural disasters.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046013", "text": "This one-time investment represents a 23% increase in the funding made available for declared disasters since the program's inception.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046014", "text": "Members of our military also face unnecessary challenges to exercising their right to vote.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046015", "text": "This resource is a critical part of our extensive outreach to state, local, tribal and territorial governments to ensure the people of America can benefit from this once-in-a-generation investment, said Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor & Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046016", "text": "But due to a nationwide shortfall in the supply of affordable homes and shifting demand for housing during the pandemic, first-time homebuyers have struggled in recent years to achieve homeownership.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046017", "text": "For decades, American presidents have promised to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure but did not deliver.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046018", "text": "In his first State of the Union Address in 2022, President Biden highlighted how our historic federal investments in infrastructure would create a visible impact in the lives of American families by committing to start repair on 1, 500 bridges.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046019", "text": "Ending the monkeypox outbreak is a critical priority for the Biden-Harris Administration.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000046020", "text": "Biden administration warns of dangers of tranq It is a dangerous drug, it was never meant to be used for human consumption.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000046021", "text": "This quantity of vaccine is in addition to the 56, 000 doses of JYNNEOS that HHS made available to states and jurisdictions when HHS announced its enhanced nationwide vaccine strategy on June 28.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046022", "text": "Since the first case of monkeypox was reported, we have been working with state and local public health partners to contain the outbreak, said CDC director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000046023", "text": "They will receive a full dose of vaccine for intradermal administration producing a similar level of immunologic response as a full dose for subcutaneous administration.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046024", "text": "Consumers, cities, states, businesses and community organizations now have myriad opportunities to reduce pollution that makes us sick and worsens global warming.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000046025", "text": "The program is intended to ensure COVID-19 tests are made available to populations and settings in need of testing.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000046026", "text": "Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles our administration will face, and I will be informed by science and by experts, said President-elect Biden.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046027", "text": "He has a 'coherent and consistent view of the constitution, ' Turley said.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000046028", "text": "This historic investment will create good paying jobs, grow local economies, and deliver real results to the American people.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046029", "text": "Today's announcement of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework represents a historic investment in our economy and is a vital step forward in meeting President Biden's Build Back Better vision.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046030", "text": "But most importantly for the members of the IBEW and working people everywhere, it is imperative that this framework becomes an investment in good-paying, blue-collar union jobs.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046031", "text": "The pandemic made it clear that we must invest heavily both in restoring our nation's manufacturing capacity and in keeping the American people safe.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046032", "text": "Now more than ever, the U.S. needs significant investment to ensure we remain competitive on a global basis.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046033", "text": "Today's deal between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators to support legislation that would invest $1 trillion in the country's infrastructure is a promising development for small business.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046034", "text": "Thanks to American innovation and President Trump's leadership on deregulation, we are now producing energy that is cleaner and more abundant than ever before.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046035", "text": "Today's agreement will go a long way toward quickly upgrading infrastructure to support a more efficient and resilient supply chain that will flex California's power in global trade.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046036", "text": "It's all-hands on deck as we face the COVID-19 pandemic, said Dr. Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046037", "text": "Sharing vital information across scientific and medical communities is key to accelerating our ability to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, said Dr. Cori Bargmann, Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046038", "text": "Our current collection of more than 10, 000 full-text scholarly articles related to coronavirus provides a critical resource for text mining efforts like this one.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000046039", "text": "We applaud the OSTP, WHO, NIH and all organizations that are taking a proactive approach to use the most advanced technology in the fight against COVID-19, said Dr. Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for AI.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046040", "text": "This outbreak is affecting members of the gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men community at an unequal rate, and it has disproportionately affected the Black and Hispanic communities.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000046041", "text": "These additional benefits have made up an increasing share of compensation in recent years, so the growth in total compensation has been greater than that seen for cash wages alone.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000046042", "text": "Fourth and finally, as a result of personal income tax cuts resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, real after-tax income has been rising faster than pre-tax income.", "issue": "Tax"}
{"id": "0000046043", "text": "Crime imposes a significant burden on Americans' well-being and tax-financed resources.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000046044", "text": "These costs are amplified by a cycle of crime that results in re-arrest rates for released American prisoners in excess of 50 percent.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000046045", "text": "This policy would distribute healthcare for free through a monopoly government health insurer that would centrally set all prices paid to suppliers such as doctors and hospitals.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000046046", "text": "Because the government would be unable to enact counter-cyclical measures in a breach-induced recession, there would be limited policy options to help buffer the impact on households and businesses.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046047", "text": "Fear of falling ill or spreading the virus has been the primary reason millions of Americans have either left their jobs or halted their job searches.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000046048", "text": "The Summit highlighted the ongoing threats of COVID-19, conflict, and climate change that have already increased poverty, hunger and malnutrition across the globe.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000046049", "text": "Other planned investments support the expansion of climate smart agriculture and forestry.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000046050", "text": "The Administration requested an historic investment to improve the quality of the National School Lunch and Breakfast program with more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products and increase the number of kids participating in these programs.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046051", "text": "Vincente Ray Flores - Winters, California Vincente Ray Flores is a 37-year-old man who, at approximately age 19, consumed ecstasy and alcohol while serving in the military; he later pleaded guilty at a special court-martial.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046052", "text": "Their economic plan will raise costs and make inflation worse.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000046053", "text": "By adding to near-term deficits, the tax cuts would increase inflation and work against efforts to bring inflation down in 2023.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000046054", "text": "In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Schema.org released new standard tags for webpages containing information about COVID-19 prevention measures, disease spread statistics, quarantine rules and travel guidance, as well as information about getting tested.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046055", "text": "The president's promise to lower corporate taxes and reduce red tape has led to a surge in American business investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046056", "text": "While employment in many industries increased by 358, 000, the leisure and hospitality industry-an industry which represents some of the lowest wage earners on average-experienced a loss of 498, 000 jobs.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046057", "text": "Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, the achievement of a vaccine renews hope to the American people that States under lockdown will soon lift restrictions on economic activity.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046058", "text": "With many States temporarily waiving or permanently repealing restrictions on the practice of telehealth across State lines, the benefits of this type of care will likely continue after the COVID-19 pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046059", "text": "This panel will discuss the importance of education, job training, job flexibility, and other worker proposals to the future prosperity of individuals and our nation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046060", "text": "So many people struggling to put food on the table and pay bills and rent.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000046061", "text": "The price of insurance is the load charged by insurance companies to cover the costs of administration and the risk-bearing assumed by the insurer.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000046062", "text": "I think real after-tax incomes are up by about 11 percent since December 2000, which actually is substantially better than after the last recession.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000046063", "text": "Some people view commodity prices as leading indicator of inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000046064", "text": "Thanks in large part to the President's policies, one of our most important exports in the coming years will be energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046065", "text": "Today, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army are fulfilling the president's objective and proposing a new definition that would put an end to the previous administration's power grab.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046066", "text": "Putin's war has had a profound impact on global and domestic energy markets.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046067", "text": "Their brother, Army Specialist Jason Hubbard, was discharged from the Army as a sole survivor, but because of antiquated laws, he was denied separation benefits.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046068", "text": "His work with refugees began in 1975, when Mark facilitated the release from refugee camps of former Vietnamese staff members who worked with him when he was in the U.S. Navy.", "issue": "refugee"}
{"id": "0000046069", "text": "Rabbi Borovitz, who has been out of prison for over15 years, works with individuals who would benefit from the President's Access to Recovery initiative.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000046070", "text": "Because of continued high unemployment, state and local budgets are stressed to the breaking point.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000046071", "text": "I am sending Congress a budget that rebuilds the military, eliminates the defense sequester, and calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046072", "text": "We must learn from the mistakes of the past - we have seen the war and destruction that have raged across our world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046073", "text": "As one woman wrote to me, We are strained but hopeful, struggling but encouraged.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046074", "text": "We're also supporting a moderate opposition in Syria that can help us in this effort, and assisting people everywhere who stand up to the bankrupt ideology of violent extremism.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000046075", "text": "In Harris' tweet, Kavanaugh appears to define contraception as abortion-inducing.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000046076", "text": "The report reflects increased confidence in employment and incomes, which could support consumer spending.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046077", "text": "Today, the Federal Trade Commission staff launched an inquiry into the ongoing shortage for infant formula that has caused hardship for countless American families.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000046078", "text": "But the most obvious shift in the US stance came during negotiations with China in which the US provided an explicit guarantee that Beijing wanted in order to entertain contracts with US companies.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046079", "text": "You are the rudder that steers our military, and supporting your physical, social and emotional health is a national security imperative.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046080", "text": "When Ms. Felix won the 2009 World Outdoor Championships, she made history as the first woman to ever win three world 200-meter titles.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046081", "text": "She is the first woman and the first African American to lead the $8 billion Foundation.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046082", "text": "In Ghana, USAID's programs have focused on healthcare by supporting efforts to expand the coverage and quality of healthcare for mothers and newborns, and educating women and young children about the importance of proper nutrition.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000046083", "text": "She is passionate about leveraging technology to create positive societal and global impact and is one of the leading women in her field.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046084", "text": "He was a staunch defender of sound science and good policy as the appropriate tools to protect the environment of his state.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046085", "text": "A 30-year veteran already serving as acting CIA chief, Haspel would be the first woman to lead the agency and the first director in decades who's spent her entire career there.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046086", "text": "The Pathetic Push to Torpedo Gina Haspel Haspel would be not only the first woman to head the CIA, but also the first career officer in 52 years to rise through the ranks directly to the director's chair.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046087", "text": "Democrats and progressive organizations should be encouraged that a nonpartisan, professional woman has been nominated to be CIA director ...", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046088", "text": "As part of a series of initiatives to improve coordination and communication among all levels of government and the American public in the fight against terrorism, President Bush signed Homeland Security Presidential Directive 3, creating the Homeland Security Advisory System.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000046089", "text": "This advisory system characterizes appropriate levels of vigilance, preparedness and readiness in a series of graduated Threat Conditions.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000046090", "text": "In lieu of gifts on her birthday she asked for socks for the homeless.", "issue": "homeless"}
{"id": "0000046091", "text": "Under his leadership the Millennium Challenge Corporation has become a key U.S. government agency reducing poverty through economic growth.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000046092", "text": "Thomas Tom M. Stauffer, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Professor of Management, American University of Afghanistan Tom Stauffer began his leadership of the American University of Afghanistan in December 2006 when he was appointed President, Chief Executive Officer, and Professor of Management.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046093", "text": "Previously, he was wounded in Afghanistan when he was hit by a rocket propelled grenade during an enemy ambush.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046094", "text": "Those values and priorities will help us emerge from this pandemic a stronger, more just, and more equitable nation.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046095", "text": "JYNNEOS vaccine is manufactured by Bavarian Nordic and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent smallpox and monkeypox.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046096", "text": "Jurisdictions also can request shipments of the ACAM2000 vaccine, which is in much greater supply, but due to significant side effects is not recommended for everyone.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046097", "text": "JYNNEOS vaccine is manufactured by Bavarian Nordic and approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent smallpox and monkeypox.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046098", "text": "We're redirecting vaccine originally purchased by the government for federal employees and the military to priority populations throughout the country.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046099", "text": "This shift will not affect the timing or supply of vaccine for members of the military who are eligible to receive the flu vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046100", "text": "Many people who fall into the priority groups for the influenza vaccine should also get the pneumonia vaccine, including seniors.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046101", "text": "We are working around-the-clock with public health officials in states and large metro areas to provide them with vaccines and treatments to respond to the current monkeypox outbreak, said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000046102", "text": "The U.S. government owns enough smallpox vaccine - JYNNEOS and ACAM2000 - to vaccinate millions of Americans, if needed.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046103", "text": "This latest allocation of vaccine brings the total number of doses made available to states and jurisdictions since late May to more than 300, 000 doses.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000046104", "text": "For the average State, the average hourly price of center-based child care for a child age 4 represents 26 percent of the hourly median wage.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000046105", "text": "The leaders of these two nuclear-armed nations are talking about peace rather than war, and Kim has taken concrete steps to sharply improve relations with all his neighbors except Japan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046106", "text": "Last fall, President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were trading personal insults and threatening nuclear war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046107", "text": "So now the talks have happened, and North Korea has agreed - much like it has in years past - to denuclearize.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046108", "text": "The risks posed by the spread of COVID have made this mission all the more difficult.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000046109", "text": "DeVos should be confirmed secretary of education The Press Herald", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046110", "text": "She is a woman who has dedicated much of her adult life to fighting some really tough battles on behalf of our nation's school children, including mentoring children for decades in her home state of Michigan.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046111", "text": "I know Betsy DeVos is the right woman to help usher in an era of education reforms that can drive significant improvement in student achievement.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046112", "text": "The administration must also advance strong policies and regulations to reduce pollution.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000046113", "text": "The public must be able to trust the science and scientific process informing public-policy decisions.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046114", "text": "Building on the growing interest in open, free, and online education, the Department of Labor has invested more than $2 billion in community college grants that support the creation of open education resources through a free and open online SkillsCommons.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046115", "text": "In addition, the Energy Frontier Research Centers created by the Administration in 2009 are advancing fundamental science and long-term research relevant to real-world energy systems and overcoming roadblocks to revolutionary energy technologies in particular domains.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046116", "text": "Expanded the use of technology to fight wildlife trafficking.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046117", "text": "A champion of democracy and opportunity, Vclav Havel has helped lead the fight for freedom in Central and Eastern Europe.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046118", "text": "The United States honors him for his excellence in science and in education, and for his unwavering commitment to our Nation.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046119", "text": "Unemployment benefits are considered the most effective form of stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000046120", "text": "Really bridging that gap and bringing experienced based education to the forefront.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046121", "text": "Evaluating lower-income workers' wage gains in states that did not raise their minimum wages shows that this recent growth is a result of the strong economy, not minimum wage hikes.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000046122", "text": "When a physician reasonably determines that the necessary stabilizing treatment is an abortion, state law cannot prohibit the provision of that care.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000046123", "text": "The law provides no defense for an abortion necessary to protect the health of the pregnant patient.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000046124", "text": "The Department of Justice is committed to supporting our state and local partners to combat crime across the country, said Attorney General Garland.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000046125", "text": "The crisis of a pandemic that has threatened their lives.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046126", "text": "We will fight for housing in every community that is affordable, decent, and safe.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046127", "text": "Following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, access to abortion will depend on the state you live in even more than before.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000046128", "text": "The benefits of science and technology remain unevenly distributed across racial, gender, economic, and geographic lines.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046129", "text": "The exposure of health information and medical conditions, especially data related to sexual activity or reproductive health, may subject people to discrimination, stigma, mental anguish, or other serious harms.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000046130", "text": "And in Iran, the regime continues to use hostage-taking as a tool of state policy, in violation of international laws and norms.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046131", "text": "This shameful and barbaric practice must end, and Iran must return Americans and other innocent civilians at once.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046132", "text": "Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry chaired a ministerial session with China, Germany, India, and Russia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046133", "text": "Excessive financial risk taking and regulatory gaps in the run up to the crisis resulted in the worst recession in more than 70 years, left millions of Americans unemployed, and erased trillions of dollars of families' savings.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046134", "text": "While the creation of the American Opportunity Tax Credit in 2009 made college more affordable for millions of students and their families, our system of tax incentives for higher education is complex, and families are sometimes unable to take full advantage of the benefits.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046135", "text": "Over the past year, long-term unemployment has fallen by 1.2 million, representing two-thirds of the overall drop in unemployment.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000046136", "text": "In the formal communique on countering terrorism, all G-20 nations affirmed that we strongly condemn all terrorist attacks worldwide and stand united and firm in the fight against terrorism and its financing.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000046137", "text": "In many discussions with allies and partners at the G-20, leaders agreed that North Korea is a global threat that requires collective action.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046138", "text": "President Trump supports a vision of free trade that is fair and reciprocal.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046139", "text": "Instead, China is attacking American farmers with the threat of retaliatory tariffs in the apparent hope of rattling a key component of the coalition that put Mr Trump in office.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046140", "text": "Thanks to President Trump's policies, the American economy is weathering the global pandemic better than any other major Western country, including those of Europe.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046141", "text": "It would also support high school STEM education, fund additional undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships and post-doctoral awards, further strengthening our STEM workforce.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046142", "text": "Unfortunately, Republicans in Congress continue to block critical investments in the education of our children and the economic security of our nation as a whole.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046143", "text": "Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are upgrading critical infrastructure to ensure that Americans can get to work and goods can get from ship to shelf.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046144", "text": "If they're sincerely worried about inflation, I'd urge them to have their staffs do the math.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000046145", "text": "Anxiety about the inflationary impact of public investment just doesn't make sense if you work through the numbers.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046146", "text": "Debt isn't a problem given low interest rates; inflation wouldn't be a problem given the economy's ability to absorb higher government spending.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000046147", "text": "He has practiced exclusively in the field of employment and labor relations and has represented clients before the National Labor Relations Board and the Michigan Employment Relations Commission.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046148", "text": "INTERPOL supports the NSS objectives to prevent nuclear terrorism in accordance with its General Assembly resolution of 2011 On raising awareness of INTERPOL'S CBRNE Programme.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000046149", "text": "That is why we need comprehensive energy and climate legislation to create a system of incentives to make clean energy profitable, said President Obama.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046150", "text": "Washington is committed to reducing carbon pollution from the transportation sector and deployment of electric vehicles is a critical element of the governor's climate strategy.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000046151", "text": "Specifically, the United States has requested dispute settlement consultations with China at the World Trade Organization in an attempt to eliminate these unfair duties, which appear to represent yet another abuse of trade remedies by China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046152", "text": "In two earlier WTO cases, the United States challenged duties that China had imposed to restrict imports of certain steel products and chicken products from the United States.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046153", "text": "In each of these matters, the key principle at stake is that China must play by the rules to which it agreed when it joined the WTO.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046154", "text": "Subsequently, in December 2011, China began imposing both antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of American-produced automobiles.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046155", "text": "The standards also represent historic progress to reduce carbon pollution and address climate change.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000046156", "text": "Federal funds will be matched by industry co-investment, support from state and local governments, and other sources.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046157", "text": "Wide bandgap technology will enable dramatically more compact and efficient power electronic devices for electric vehicles, renewable power interconnection, industrial-scale variable speed drive motors and a smarter more flexible grid; in addition to high-performance defense applications.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046158", "text": "Green the Block will encourage education, legislative advocacy, private-sector development and youth activism, and is supported by a broad-base coalition of partners.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046159", "text": "These meetings are the latest demonstration of the President's ongoing commitment to this region, which is making remarkable progress in education and other areas, said Tony Miller, Deputy Secretary of Education.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000046160", "text": "It will make clean energy the profitable kind of energy, and the decision by other nations to do this is already giving their businesses a leg up on developing clean energy jobs and technologies.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046161", "text": "For Fiscal Year 2017, the new DFC grant awards represent a total Federal investment of $12.6 million in grants.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046162", "text": "DFC continuation grants represent a total Federal investment of $76.7 million.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046163", "text": "With her love of people and passion for bringing hope to small towns impacted by this epidemic, Anne is perfectly suited for this important role.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046164", "text": "More than $611 million has been approved in FEMA housing and for other needs assistance.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046165", "text": "U.S. Concerns About Healthcare High; Energy, Unemployment Low Affordable energy and unemployment have been the issues Americans worry least about for the past two years, given low gas prices and low unemployment rates.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046166", "text": "Importantly, he understands how currency impacts trade, and he will represent America on the global stage.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046167", "text": "The agreement will significantly liberalize bilateral trade in services across a wide range of services sectors.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046168", "text": "Having been in Active Duty and the Reserves for the United States Army, Mr. Hess was called back to Active Duty in Iraq and served as Deputy Chief of Staff for the Coalition Provisional Authority and as Humanitarian Coordinator for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046169", "text": "Earlier in his career, Mr. Boyer worked in private equity investment banking, during which he launched and led three private equity initiatives in emerging markets.", "issue": "banking"}
{"id": "0000046170", "text": "Prior to that, Dr. Hillen served in the United States Army and received a Bronze Star Medal for actions in combat during Operation Desert Storm.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046171", "text": "Stewart, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, currently serves as Director of the Office of Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus Affairs at the Department of State.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000046172", "text": "Enhanced competition from generic drugs is an important factor behind falling prescription drug prices.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000046173", "text": "You read about the war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046174", "text": "Jacobs-Young is the first woman and person of color to lead this agency, which manages an annual budget of $1.82 billion.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046175", "text": "During the pandemic, Miller led efforts to provide over 5.6 million meals to tens of thousands of his fellow Coloradans to alleviate food insecurity.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046176", "text": "As the leader of an organization that advocates for California's leading agricultural export, Elaine understands tariff and nontariff barriers to trade and the importance of maintaining America's strong trade agreements and global positioning.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046177", "text": "Gebre came to the United States as a refugee at the age of nine and grew up in public housing and on government assistance.", "issue": "refugee"}
{"id": "0000046178", "text": "Earlier, Stacie led ESG investments as the Chief Investment Officer of COIN, a $29 billion ESG investment fund of the insurance industry, from 2011 through 2018, and as an ESG-focused portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley from 2008 through 2011.", "issue": "Investment"}
{"id": "0000046179", "text": "A Foreign Service officer since 1985, she has also served at U.S. diplomatic missions in China , Ukraine, Hong Kong, Mozambique, Kenya, and the Dominican Republic.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046180", "text": "He retired from the U.S. Army with the permanent rank of Major General as the first Latino to head the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046181", "text": "When the war ended, Foxman reunited with his parents, also Holocaust survivors, and spent several years in DP camps in Austria, before immigrating to America.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046182", "text": "He is the only Vietnam Army veteran and enlisted combat veteran to serve as Secretary of Defense.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046183", "text": "Her longtime advocacy for public education was key in mobilizing the PGCPS community to provide laptops, internet service and technology assistance to families in need while building virtual learning from the ground up.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046184", "text": "She is a national voice for higher education, having served on the board of directors for the Council of Independent Colleges, National Association for Independent Colleges and Universities, NAFEO and UNCF.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046185", "text": "For over 37 years, Beriwal has been dedicated to the use of technology to enhance preparedness and response and build resilience in communities and their critical infrastructure.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046186", "text": "In 2018, Torres Small became the first woman and first person of color to represent New Mexico's second congressional district, the largest district that isn't its own state.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046187", "text": "Sams holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Concordia University-Portland and a master of legal studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046188", "text": "Mayor Bottoms understands that democracy is about making government work for working families, for the people who are the backbone of this country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046189", "text": "She was the first woman to lead a national security lab.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046190", "text": "He is a veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, commanding Soldiers at the company and battalion level.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046191", "text": "He is a veteran of three combat tours in Iraq to include being the Task Force 2-37 M1A1 Abrams Tank Battalion Commander in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2006-2007.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046192", "text": "Salazar represents clients on energy, environment, natural resources and Native American matters.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046193", "text": "She currently leads Accessibility at Netflix, leveraging technology to connect people with disabilities to their next favorite story.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046194", "text": "He earned a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration from Georgetown University with a major in Accounting and a Master of Taxation from Villanova University.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000046195", "text": "Stephen K. Klasko, Member, National Board for Education Sciences Stephen K. Klasko, M.D., M.B.A. is an advocate for transformation in higher education and healthcare, including his call for institutions to close gaps of equity and health disparities.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000046196", "text": "He has led real estate ventures in affordable housing, military housing, office space, and commercial space.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046197", "text": "During his 25-year career, Bapna's leadership roles have focused on tackling the root causes of poverty and climate change with strategies that are equitable, durable, and scalable.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000046198", "text": "She is dedicated to supporting programming that advances education and scholarship, as well as opportunities that strengthen the Indigenous community at Harvard and beyond.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046199", "text": "Prior to joining Reynolda, she was deputy director of education and interpretation at the Baltimore Museum of Art, moving there from her previous role as education director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046200", "text": "Some of his areas of interest include healthy diet patterns, nutritional biomarkers, Food is Medicine interventions in healthcare, nutrition innovation and entrepreneurship, and food policy.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000046201", "text": "His editorials on topics such as the importance of a humanities education have been published in The Washington Post , The Hartford Courant , and The Baltimore Sun.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046202", "text": "Her interests range from education, the arts, social service agencies, and children's issues.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046203", "text": "Her first child, who passed away at the age of 26, was born with a serious brain disease that left her profoundly disabled and medically fragile.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046204", "text": "Previously, she focused on regulatory issues relating to energy and air, leading policy efforts in over two dozen states across the country.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046205", "text": "In this capacity, she leads the Center's programs on African democracy and governance; conflict management and peacebuilding; trade, investment, and sustainable development; and Africa's evolving role in the global arena.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046206", "text": "During the COVID-19 pandemic, she represented meatpacking workers at a Smithfield processing plant in Missouri and Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046207", "text": "She became the first African American woman to serve as the manager of a major party presidential campaign, running the campaign of former Vice President Al Gore.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046208", "text": "He led Spark's investment in Twitter in 2007 when there were just ten employees at the San Francisco based startup.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046209", "text": "Risch's top priority is China, and as such, he has introduced and advanced several legislative packages, including the first comprehensive legislative strategy to compete with China across a number of areas.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046210", "text": "Michael Blecker, Nominee for Member of the Asset and Infrastructure Review Commission, Department of Veterans Affairs Michael Blecker served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1970, with combat infantry service in Vietnam from 1968 - 1969.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046211", "text": "In that role, he promoted democracy, rule of law, and human rights in Zimbabwe while managing multi-dimensional humanitarian crises brought on by corruption, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046212", "text": "He supported American trade and investment in Peru, increasing agricultural sales to over $1 billion annually, defending the rights of American investors, and building the Hemisphere's largest public-private partnership, the U.S.-Peru Cacao Alliance.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046213", "text": "Bradsher is a combat veteran who served for 20 years in the United States Army, retiring in 2013 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046214", "text": "Mersinger was instrumental during policy debates involving banking, finance, telecommunications, surface transportation, agriculture, and trade issues.", "issue": "banking"}
{"id": "0000046215", "text": "Despite drastic budget shortfalls due to the economic crisis, he made public education a top priority, steering federal stimulus funding to save thousands of teachers' jobs.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046216", "text": "Since 2014, he has led the advancement of next generation technology for the Agency's chemical, biological, and radiological defense efforts.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046217", "text": "Her council district represented the highest concentration of public housing in North America.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046218", "text": "Gronli understands extending critical broadband infrastructure to under-served communities and tribal areas is key to diversifying South Dakota's economy.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046219", "text": "In addition to the full-time demands of the farm, Scott follows a long family tradition of civic engagement, achieving many leadership positions within local and state level agricultural organizations.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000046220", "text": "She has focused her communication on the impact of COVID on communities and families, empowering Americans to make informed decisions for themselves and their families.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000046221", "text": "Today, the Biden Administration is announcing additional actions to reduce gun crime and make communities safer.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000046222", "text": "In June 2021, the Justice Department announced a new policy to underscore zero tolerance for certain willful violations of the law by federally licensed firearms dealers that put public safety at risk.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000046223", "text": "Young, who has served as Acting Director since being confirmed as Deputy Director by the Senate in a bipartisan 63-37 vote on March 23, 2021, would be the first Black woman to lead OMB.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046224", "text": "As a historian of science, she is committed to diversifying her discipline and facilitating collaboration between the humanities and natural sciences.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046225", "text": "Drug companies that refuse to negotiate will owe an excise tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000046226", "text": "Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was the youngest woman ever elected to the Arizona State Senate, serving first in the Arizona legislature and later in the U.S. Congress.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046227", "text": "Over the last 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic forced an unprecedented global economic shutdown.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046228", "text": "As a member of the House Democratic Leadership, she is the highest-ranking woman of color in the U.S. Congress.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046229", "text": "Her father was a veteran of two wars and her mother broke many glass ceilings and racial barriers.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046230", "text": "Previously Gordon has served as the senior director of housing and consumer finance at the Center for American Progress, manager of the single-family policy team at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and senior policy counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046231", "text": "The framework's $555 billion investment represents the largest single investment in our clean energy economy in history, across buildings, transportation, industry, electricity, agriculture, and climate-smart practices across lands and waters.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046232", "text": "As a Principal Official of the Department of the Army she oversees the support and infrastructure functions for Headquarters, Department of the Army and for key Army-wide services.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046233", "text": "Our crisis response infrastructure must also be strengthened to ensure that those facing acute behavioral health challenges can be seamlessly connected to necessary services.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046234", "text": "Over the course of his career, Ajay has become a global leader in technology, data, financial services and innovating for inclusion.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046235", "text": "He has a strong belief that higher education is the primary tool for socioeconomic mobility with equity at the heart of the mobility agenda.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046236", "text": "Dorgan is a Vietnam veteran who belongs to AMVETS, VFW, DAV, and American Legion.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046237", "text": "Florent Flo Groberg served in the United States Army from 2008 to 2017 and is a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military honor, for his extraordinary gallantry, intrepidity and heroism while serving in combat operations in Afghanistan in 2012.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046238", "text": "Over the last 11 years, Bashin has overseen significant expansions of direct blind employment in the AbilityOne space, but most importantly in competitive, integrated workplaces.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046239", "text": "White House Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu said , With this investment, President Biden is delivering major environmental, public health, and economic wins for the Great Lakes region.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046240", "text": "The benefits of a quality STEM education fail to reach every learner in this country often due to racial, gender, economic, and geographic disparities.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046241", "text": "Over the past five years, Dr. Bertagnolli has championed collaborative initiatives to transform the data infrastructure for clinical research and is as the founding chair of the minimal Common Oncology Data Elements executive committee.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046242", "text": "President Biden's inaugural National Drug Control Strategy delivers on his Unity Agenda call to action to beat the overdose epidemic, said Dr. Rahul Gupta, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046243", "text": "The more conventional policy advisers worrying, very vocally on TV, about inflation may be right that we will see more persistent inflationary pressures, but markets broadly are voting with the Fed's assessment that the heat of this moment will prove largely transitory.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000046244", "text": "And political leadership has had a lot to do with rapid vaccination.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000046245", "text": "The extraordinary reduction in poverty has come at extraordinary cost, with annual spending on major programs projected to rise fourfold to more than $1 trillion.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000046246", "text": "Poverty fell less among Asian Americans, leaving them more likely than Black Americans to be poor.", "issue": "Poverty"}
{"id": "0000046247", "text": "Measuring poverty is contentious, and some conservatives accuse the left of exaggerating the recent poverty reduction to justify more spending.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000046248", "text": "That is because poverty is based on annual income, and help has fluctuated greatly from month to month as a result of policy changes and administrative bottlenecks.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000046249", "text": "The pandemic forced many businesses to dramatically shift the ways they operate as it was unsafe to have workers in proximity to each other - or near customers.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046250", "text": "The pandemic forced us all to learn to use technologies at a rapid pace.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046251", "text": "The other key dynamic is increased government investment in the economy.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046252", "text": "Instead, she noted that creating more child-care infrastructure could cause the labor market to be more dynamic and drive stronger workforce participation from women.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046253", "text": "Inflation is currently running at a 13-year high, with many Americans citing it as a big worry.", "issue": "Inflation"}
{"id": "0000046254", "text": "A key argument from the White House economic team is that investments in care infrastructure such as paid leave, preschool for all, and more affordable eldercare and child care could help more people work.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046255", "text": "Additionally, three branches of the military are represented among the newly appointed Fellows.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046256", "text": "A former member of the U.S. Army and Army Reserves, he is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, received a Masters degree from the University of Idaho and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046257", "text": "A former member of the U.S. Army, he is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and received his law degree from the University of Nebraska.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046258", "text": "A member of the U.S. Army, Warner is currently General Counsel to the U.S. Special Operations Command, and from 1996 to 1998, he served as Legal Counsel to two Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046259", "text": "A former member of the U.S. Army, he received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Oklahoma.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046260", "text": "Dewey was a member of the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1981, and received an undergraduate degree from West Point and a Master's degree from Princeton University.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046261", "text": "Price also served as an officer in the U.S. Army for approximately four years, during which time he served as a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment and the 173rd Airborne Brigade.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046262", "text": "Demonstrating her commitment to improving education, she has served as a Board Member of Pepperdine University.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046263", "text": "During his tenure in the House, Mr. Appleton focused on policy issues related to housing, financial services, small business, and agriculture among other subjects.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046264", "text": "Previously, Mr. Polakowski served in the United States Army for more than 36 years in a combination of active duty and reserve assignments, principally involving nuclear, chemical, and biological defense matters.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046265", "text": "During his more than 34 years of active duty in the United States Army, he has served on multiple combat deployments and held several senior command positions, commanding organizations with thousands of personnel, including military, civilian, and interagency personnel.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046266", "text": "Afghanistan, the Philippines, Burma, Somalia, and Iraq, experiencing firsthand the toll conflict and instability take on vulnerable communities.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046267", "text": "Colonel Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, author, and a consultant.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046268", "text": "Prior to his work in higher education, Mr. Ashooh served for over two decades as a senior executive in the aerospace industry, starting his career with Lockheed Martin and then BAE Systems.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046269", "text": "Following his honorable discharge from the military, Mr. Bulatao was the president and chief operating officer of a number of private sector companies, including Thayer Aerospace, Wichita, Kansas, Nefab America, Coppel, Texas, and Niteo Products, Dallas, Texas.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046270", "text": "In that position, he advises Members of Congress on legislation concerning trade and on oversight issues involving the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and other agencies involved in international trade policy and regulation.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000046271", "text": "Clovis holds a B.S. in political science from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University and a Doctorate in public administration from the University of Alabama.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046272", "text": "Dowd has decades of executive experience in trade, logistics, and finance, with a significant focus on Africa.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046273", "text": "His excellent leadership skills and experience working closely with the U.S. military provide him expertise on the challenges and opportunities of the Horn-of-Africa region and deep understanding of the context of United States policy goals there.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046274", "text": "Ibach has been a visionary leader for Nebraska's agriculture effectively supervising Departmental staff and programs, with the ability to analyze issues, develop strategies, and create solutions for domestic and global initiatives.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000046275", "text": "As a result of her innovative work in payment technology, Ms. Weichert has been named as an inventor on 14 successful U.S. patents.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046276", "text": "Over the past 35 years, Mr. James has developed a wealth of knowledge about our nation's critical infrastructure.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000046277", "text": "He served in the United States Army on active duty as a military intelligence officer from 1987 to 1990.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046278", "text": "Manasco served as an officer in the U.S. Army, commanding at Fort Bragg, before becoming director of finance and accounting for the Office of Military Support in Washington.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046279", "text": "Her practice focuses on employment and labor law, including commercial litigation on behalf of clients in federal and state court, providing regulatory advice, and counseling on mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, and private equity.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046280", "text": "Over the past 35 years, Mr. James has developed a wealth of knowledge about our nation's critical infrastructure.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000046281", "text": "His former assignments as a command Staff Judge Advocate include multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046282", "text": "Prior to her employment with Senator Thune, Ms. Hovland was CEO of Wanji Native Nations Consultants which offered training services for Tribal programs and Tribal governments pertaining to homeland security, emergency management, stress management, and time management.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046283", "text": "Kuhlman holds an A.D. in police science technology from Oklahoma State University and a B.S. in organizational leadership from Southern Nazarene University.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046284", "text": "His plan includes making a serious investment in the nation's infrastructure.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046285", "text": "Knowing that the President cares deeply about this issue and the opportunity for bipartisan progress, improving our nation's infrastructure has been a focal point of the Energy and Commerce Committee's work since the beginning of the 115th Congress....", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046286", "text": "From November 8th through 10th, China hosted President Donald J. Trump on an official state visit, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046287", "text": "For the United States, these consultations for free, fair, and reciprocal trade and investment will be led by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000046288", "text": "This accomplished and experienced team will work to get the pandemic under control so that the American people can get back to their lives and to their loved ones.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046289", "text": "This team is deeply qualified to help lead our White House efforts to protect the American people from the virus, said incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000046290", "text": "Link to hi-res photo Elizabeth Klein is an experienced leader in clean energy, climate change, and environmental law and policy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046291", "text": "During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has worked to quickly bring the state economy back from the depths of the nationwide crisis.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046292", "text": "If confirmed, Tanden would be the first woman of color and the first South Asian American to lead the OMB.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046293", "text": "A renowned labor economist with expertise centered in the economics of education and equality, she is an accomplished leader who has held prominent roles across academia and government service.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046294", "text": "If confirmed, she will be the first woman to lead HUD in more than 40 years and the second Black woman in history to lead the Department.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046295", "text": "This team knows that science demands we address climate change immediately and that our response must be grounded in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046296", "text": "The president-elect is elevating the role of science within the White House, including by designating the Presidential Science Advisor as a member of the Cabinet for the first time in history.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000046297", "text": "Zuber, an expert in geophysics and planetary science, is the first woman to lead a NASA spacecraft mission and has chaired the National Science Board.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046298", "text": "Zuber is the first woman to lead a science department at MIT and the first to lead a NASA planetary mission.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046299", "text": "Born in Alabama and raised in Georgia, General Austin received his bachelor of science degree from West Point, his masters in education from Auburn University, and his masters in business administration from Webster University.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046300", "text": "As the former governor of the nation's largest energy producing state, I know American energy is critical to our economy and our security.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046301", "text": "He is a veteran of the United States Air Force, a former farmer, and the longest serving governor in Texas history, having led the world's 12th largest economy from 2000 to 2015.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046302", "text": "Governor Branstad's decades of experience in public service and long-time relationship with President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders make him the ideal choice to serve as America's Ambassador to China, said President-elect Trump.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046303", "text": "He successfully developed close trade ties with China while serving as chief executive of the Hawkeye State.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046304", "text": "Since leading his first delegation to Hebei Province in 1984, the Governor has led six trade missions to China meeting with numerous provincial governors, ministerial leaders and local officials.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046305", "text": "Branstad collaborated with the Ministry of Agriculture for China, including meetings with Minister Han Changfu and has worked closely with Madam Li Xiaolin of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries to further relationships between states in America and Chinese provinces.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046306", "text": "A true fiscal conservative and savvy businesswoman, Governor Haley's leadership drove down South Carolina's unemployment to a 15 year low by adding more than 82, 000 jobs in each of South Carolina's 46 counties.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000046307", "text": "His sole mandate will be to serve our veterans and restore the level of care we owe to our brave men and women in the military, said President-elect Donald J. Trump.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046308", "text": "Secretary Chao's extensive record of strong leadership and her expertise are invaluable assets in our mission to rebuild our infrastructure in a fiscally responsible manner, said President-elect Trump.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046309", "text": "Congressman Mulvaney brings a wealth of experience on economic, budgetary, and fiscal issues to his new role.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000046310", "text": "As Secretary of the Army, Viola will combine a deep background in national security affairs with an impressive track record of leading and managing high-performing teams within the military and the private sector.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046311", "text": "Carlos Diaz-Rosillo brings a wealth of experience on presidential power, administrative action, executive leadership and the policymaking and executive action process to this key role.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000046312", "text": "Our country is facing unprecedented challenges-from the coronavirus pandemic to the economic crisis, to the climate crisis, and a long-overdue reckoning over racial injustice.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046313", "text": "She is a veteran of three presidential campaigns having served as traveling press secretary during the Obama-Biden campaign in 2008, as traveling press secretary and senior advisor in 2012 and as deputy press secretary for John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046314", "text": "Over more than two decades, Cortez has championed the causes of public education, health care, worker rights, and the environment using ballot, public education, and legislative campaigns to advance positive change.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046315", "text": "Williams is the first Black woman to hold this role for a successful presidential candidate.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046316", "text": "Bradsher is an Iraq war veteran who served 20 years in the United States Army and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046317", "text": "This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the current global public health crisis has made these burdens infinitely heavier for women all over this country.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046318", "text": "In August 2000, Solis became the first woman to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for her pioneering work on environmental justice issues in California.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046319", "text": "While deployed to Afghanistan, Sergeant First Class Celiz led an operation to clear an area of enemy forces and thereby disrupt future attacks against Afghan and allied forces.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046320", "text": "The new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation will work to leverage new investment from industry, state and local government, and the research community.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046321", "text": "Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion investment, coupled with another $2.4 billion in cost share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. battery and auto industries.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046322", "text": "Before entering the private sector, General Harding completed 33 years in the US Army, where he served in progressively challenging command and staff assignments.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046323", "text": "He commanded a HUMINT and Counterintelligence Battalion in Korea, and the Army's premier Counterintelligence Group, the 902d, at Fort Meade.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046324", "text": "As Finance and Development officer and Deputy Economic Counselor in Korea 1989-1993, she helped establish the Presidents' Economic Initiative, the Dialogue for Economic Cooperation and Treasury-Ministry of Finance Financial Policy Talks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046325", "text": "As a member of the Naval Special Warfare community, Mr. Flavin completed extended combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq - serving as the targeting and intelligence director for Special Operations Task Force West, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046326", "text": "Jackson was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT and chairs the New York Stock Exchange Regulation Board.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046327", "text": "Prior to this, Ms. Gandara served as commissioner for postsecondary education for the state of California.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046328", "text": "She has since worked with state education and tribal leaders to raise Native American student achievement.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046329", "text": "Castor has held various leadership positions in education, most recently as the Executive Director of the Patel Center for Global Solutions at USF.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046330", "text": "General Petersen served combat tours in Korea and Vietnam and held command positions at all levels of Marine Corps aviation, commanding a Marine fighter Squadron, Marine Aircraft Group and Marine Aircraft Wing.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046331", "text": "She regularly instructs in continuing education for Indian law attorneys and for tribal government officials and tribal court judges.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046332", "text": "His research investigates occupational and environmental causes of disease, with a particular focus on ionizing radiation.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046333", "text": "He conducted groundbreaking military to military visits with the commanding general of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046334", "text": "She is the first and only woman to be nominated by a major party to run for Governor in Indiana, as well as the first and only Hoosier woman to be nominated by a major party to run for the United States Senate.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046335", "text": "Verma is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, a former country director for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and has worked in the House of Representatives.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046336", "text": "As the youngest governor of Mississippi in more than 100 years at the time of his election, he stressed education and job creation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046337", "text": "Prior to joining Governor Corzine, Oates was the Senior Policy Advisor on higher education, national service, adult literacy, education research and workforce issues to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000046338", "text": "A member of the American Law Institute, he received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an A.B. from Harvard University.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046339", "text": "Earlier, while a member of President Jimmy Carter's reorganization project staff , he worked on reorganizing the government's international trade, public diplomacy, and foreign assistance mechanisms.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046340", "text": "He recently returned from China where he headed a delegation of U.S. energy regulators.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046341", "text": "Linda currently consults in the field of energy and resides in her home state of Kentucky.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046342", "text": "He is active in community education and non-profit organizations, including serving as Chairman of Jacksonville's Communities in Schools and is especially supportive of the arts such as the Florida Ballet in Jacksonville, the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046343", "text": "Professor Gutierrez is a national leader in education and urban education, and recently served on President Obama's Education Policy Transition Team.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000046344", "text": "Ramirez's responsibilities include individual representation of students in special education, policy advocacy, and working closely with the Latino community by providing individual rights trainings in Spanish.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046345", "text": "Ambassador Jeffrey served in the US Army as an infantry branch officer from 1969 to 1976, with service in Germany and Vietnam.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046346", "text": "She has a master's degree in library science from State University of New York, a master's degree in business administration from Rutgers University and a bachelor of arts, cum laude, from Syracuse University.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046347", "text": "Bishop Jefferts Schori is the first woman to head any of the 38 member churches of the world-wide Anglican Communion.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046348", "text": "Bilyeu began her employment with NVPERS in 1995, in the position of Operations Officer, overseeing all aspects of benefit administration for the System.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046349", "text": "Castor has held other leadership positions in education, most recently as the Executive Director of the Patel Center for Global Solutions at USF.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046350", "text": "Crawford served in the U.S. Army, including as an infantry officer in Vietnam, and he was awarded a Bronze Star.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046351", "text": "President Obama said, These dedicated individuals bring a wealth of experience and talent to their new roles, and I am grateful they have agreed to lend their considerable talents to this Administration.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000046352", "text": "Zuber is the first woman to lead a science department at MIT and the first to lead a NASA planetary mission.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046353", "text": "Before joining USO in 2008, Mr. Gibson worked in banking for 20 years, including 11 years as an executive at AmSouth Bancorporation and 9 years as a Senior Vice President at Bank South.", "issue": "banking"}
{"id": "0000046354", "text": "During his tenure in the Army, he served in a number of command and leadership positions in the United States, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, South Korea, and Vietnam.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046355", "text": "These dedicated individuals bring a wealth of experience and talent to this important role, and I look forward to receiving the Commission's recommendations.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000046356", "text": "She has a master's degree in library science from State University of New York, a master's degree in business administration from Rutgers University and a bachelor of arts, cum laude, from Syracuse University.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046357", "text": "Formerly a professor of political science at MIT, she is the author of Managing the State , co-editor with Walter Dean Burnham of American Politics and Public Policy , and the author of articles on leadership in the private and public sectors.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046358", "text": "Geoffrey R. Pyatt, Nominee for Ambassador to Greece, Department of State Geoffrey R. Pyatt, a career member of the Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, currently serves as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, a position he has held since 2013.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000046359", "text": "Feehan served as an officer in the U.S. Army from 2005 to 2009, which included two deployments to Iraq.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046360", "text": "He was a Vice President of International Corporate Banking at Citibank, where he worked from 1976 to 1992 and held various in-country and regional executive positions in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.", "issue": "Banking"}
{"id": "0000046361", "text": "Gorman joined the U.S. Army in 1969 and is a combat disabled veteran of the Vietnam War.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046362", "text": "A veteran of presidential races, he served as Deputy Communications Director for TV News during John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 and a spokesperson for constituency media for Al Gore's presidential bid in 2000.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046363", "text": "Every dollar that is not paid in tax goes toward making the business more profitable, or in many cases in this economy, keeps the business afloat.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000046364", "text": "Tax incentives such as this are an investment in this country's workforce and in the small businesses that make this country great.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046365", "text": "Statement by Frank Blake, Chairman and CEO of Home Depot Small general contractors and pro firms are a significant part of our customer base; they've been hit hard in this recession; and this proposal should help", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046366", "text": "The Next Generation Power Electronics Institute will provide the innovation infrastructure needed to support new product and process technologies, education, and training to become a global center of excellence for the development of wide bandgap semiconductor devices and industry-relevant processes.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046367", "text": "Earlier, while a member of President Jimmy Carter's reorganization project staff , he worked on reorganizing the government's international trade, public diplomacy, and foreign assistance mechanisms.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046368", "text": "She is the first and only woman to be nominated by a major party to run for Governor in Indiana, as well as the first and only Hoosier woman to be nominated by a major party to run for the United States Senate.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046369", "text": "This historic investment demonstrates this administration's commitment to pushing the boundaries of science and turning those discoveries into benefits for the American people.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046370", "text": "Cancer is a disease of DNA-it occurs when glitches in the DNA cause a good cell to go bad.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046371", "text": "If we are to be a leader in the 21st century global economy, then we must lead the world in clean energy technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046372", "text": "The World Bank's mission is to reduce poverty and support development, serving as a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries across the globe.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000046373", "text": "His actions made it possible for the Union Army to successfully repulse the Confederate assault.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046374", "text": "The group discussed the current state of our transportation infrastructure in cities and states across the country, the challenges they face to improving their infrastructure, and the short- and long-term economic impact of new infrastructure investment.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046375", "text": "We know that upgrading our nation's infrastructure is vital to our economy and our future competitiveness.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046376", "text": "For international leadership in environmental science, straddling ecology and applied mathematics, to promote conservation; for his impact on a generation of environmental scientists; and for his critical contributions to ecology, environmental economics, epidemiology, applied mathematics, and evolution.", "issue": "ecology"}
{"id": "0000046377", "text": "For pioneering innovations in microelectronics including reliability technologies, the first industry-standard model for circuit design, and the first 3-dimensional transistors, which radically advanced semiconductor technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046378", "text": "Their leadership and commitment empower our children to think critically and creatively about science, technology, engineering, and math.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046379", "text": "President Obama is strengthening education in science, technology, engineering, and math fields in order to fully harness the promise our Nation's students.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046380", "text": "President Obama and his Administration have taken significant steps to strengthen education in science, technology, engineering, and math fields in order to fully harness the promise our Nation's students.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046381", "text": "The Administration continues to make investment in advanced manufacturing research and development a sustained priority, with a focus on accelerating the launch of technologies from lab to market.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046382", "text": "Veterans play a vital role in the Department of Homeland Security's mission to protect the nation, which is why we have pledged to grow our veteran workforce to more than 50, 000 Department-wide by 2012.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046383", "text": "Stevens is a veteran of World War II, in which he served as a naval intelligence officer and was awarded the Bronze Star.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046384", "text": "As we meet the challenges of globalization and technological change, it is vital to have a concerted effort across the Administration to support an innovative, vibrant manufacturing sector.", "issue": "globalization"}
{"id": "0000046385", "text": "In 1988, Judge Thompson became the first African-American woman to be nominated to the Rhode Island District Court where she presided over state law criminal misdemeanors, civil actions with damages up to $10, 000, and tax appeals.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046386", "text": "He returned from the war to complete his B.A. at the University of Arizona in 1973.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046387", "text": "In March, the United States reached an agreement with China to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. pork and pork products.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046388", "text": "In June, the United States agreed with Russia to reopen the Russian market to U.S. poultry exports.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000046389", "text": "Friedman served as an officer in the US Army and was the Harvard College ski coach.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046390", "text": "Given his experiences, Ziad sees education as essential to successful entrepreneurship and to combat rising issues of poverty and extremism.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046391", "text": "The primary goal of the project is to provide a reliable utility infrastructure to service tenant agencies for the next 50 years.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046392", "text": "The President has made providing a complete and competitive education for all Americans - from cradle to career - a top priority.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046393", "text": "Rather than providing new incentives for investment, SelectUSA plays the critical role of advocacy, coordination, facilitation, and information-gathering and -sharing.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046394", "text": "Twenty years ago, people who came to work in the federal government had better technology at work than at home.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046395", "text": "The competition with which we are faced is not China versus the United States.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046396", "text": "He vowed to unleash American energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046397", "text": "Now, the Coronavirus pandemic has made even clearer the risks of becoming overly reliant on foreign nations for our essential supplies.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046398", "text": "The efficient movement of people and goods requires the right infrastructure to support it, and the right technology and intelligence to secure it.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046399", "text": "Our land border supports the largest trading relationship in the world and we are committed to investing in infrastructure in a way that addresses both current challenges and future growth.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000046400", "text": "Our first priority is to invest in the infrastructure that will support and amplify the impact of the NEXUS and FAST programs.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046401", "text": "Technology can play an important role in expediting traffic in a secure manner.", "issue": "Technology"}
{"id": "0000046402", "text": "Before he could be stopped by law enforcement officers, Hasan fatally shot 13 members of the U.S. Army and injured 32 others, most of them military personnel.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046403", "text": "The United States Government must continue to enhance its information technology in order to better and more readily identify relevant data.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046404", "text": "American leaders from both parties stood down to China for 40 years.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046405", "text": "The Chinese Communist Party broke the rules on global trade, allowed Chinese firms to steal technology from American companies, and in turn destroyed entire sectors of our economy.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046406", "text": "He restricted travel from China and launched a White House Coronavirus Task Force in January.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046407", "text": "A stronger America will better confront each of our adversaries, including China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046408", "text": "Soon, much of our critical infrastructure will connect to these new networks.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046409", "text": "The president-elect also underscored his commitment to strengthening democracy at home and abroad, engaging multilaterally, and cooperating on common challenges such as Iran, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Western Balkans.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046410", "text": "Over 4, 600 law enforcement officers from more than 1, 000 communitie s nationwide received three years of salary and benefits through the COPS program.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000046411", "text": "He believed in democracy, and he understood the perils and the challenges of living otherwise.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046412", "text": "To strengthen our standing in a 21st century economy, we've invested in upgrading our critical infrastructure, from high-speed rail to high-speed internet.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046413", "text": "In March, for example, we reached an agreement with China to reopen their market to American pork and pork products.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046414", "text": "Last month, during President Medvedev's visit, we reached an agreement with Russia to reopen their market to American poultry.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000046415", "text": "And last month also brought the largest increase in manufacturing employment since 1998 - a good sign for companies like this one.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046416", "text": "The recession has certainly made it worse, but that feeling of not being in control of your own economic future - that sense that the American Dream is slowly slipping away - that's been around for some time.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046417", "text": "They're making serious investments in technology and clean energy because they want to win the competition for those jobs.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046418", "text": "It is precisely our investments in education and innovation that will make America more competitive in the 21st century.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046419", "text": "And that was before the recession left them and millions of others struggling in ways they never imagined.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046420", "text": "We're investing in 21st century infrastructure - in roads and bridges, in faster internet access and high-speed railroads - projects that will lead to hundreds of thousands of private-sector jobs.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046421", "text": "We expect our commitment to clean energy to lead to more than 800, 000 jobs by 2012.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046422", "text": "Hundreds of thousands of families have lost their homes; millions more can barely pay the bills or make the mortgage.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000046423", "text": "But despite the fact that this has traditionally been an issue with bipartisan support, Mr. Boehner has so far said no to infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046424", "text": "Making up for the 8 million lost jobs caused by this recession won't happen overnight.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046425", "text": "As a candidate for President, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046426", "text": "There are patriots who supported going to war, and patriots who opposed it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046427", "text": "And more women tested by combat than in any war in American history, including a Marine here today-Sergeant Patricia Ruiz.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046428", "text": "But even as we end the war in Iraq, even as we welcome home of so many of our troops, others are stilled deployed in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046429", "text": "We face huge challenges in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046430", "text": "On the military front, nearly all the additional forces that I ordered to Afghanistan are now in place.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046431", "text": "But we're not going to be satisfied until every veteran who has fought for America has a home in America.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046432", "text": "And that includes service members with a disability, who still have so much to offer our military.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000046433", "text": "From now on, if a VA doctor confirms a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress, that's enough-no matter what war you served in.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046434", "text": "From China to Germany, these nations recognize that the country that leads the clean energy economy will be the country that leads the global economy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046435", "text": "From China to Spain, other nations recognized that the country that leads the clean energy economy will be the country that leads the 21st century global economy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046436", "text": "From creating jobs to reducing the deficit to giving every child a decent education, we still face enormous challenges in this country.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046437", "text": "Religion is the final topic that I want to address today, and - like democracy and development - it is fundamental to the Indonesian story.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046438", "text": "In Afghanistan, we continue to work with a coalition of nations to build the capacity of the Afghan government to secure its future.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046439", "text": "Maybe you've found yourself underwater on your mortgage and faced the terrible prospect of losing your home.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000046440", "text": "In this time of war, we pay special tribute to the thousands of Americans who have given their lives during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and who have earned their place among the greatest of generations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046441", "text": "But in order to truly harness our potential in clean energy, we'll have to do more.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046442", "text": "The government of Iran still has a choice.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046443", "text": "They're making serious investments in clean energy because they want those jobs.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046444", "text": "But government has also built infrastructure - roads and ports; railways and highways that enabled commerce and spurred entire industries.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046445", "text": "Other countries, whether China or Germany or Brazil, have been able to align the interests of workers, businesses, and government around trade agreements that open new markets and create new jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046446", "text": "The only certainty of the status quo is that the price and supply of oil will become increasingly volatile; that the use of fossil fuels will wreak havoc on weather patterns and air quality.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000046447", "text": "When it comes to education, we need parents who are willing to read to their children and help with their homework.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046448", "text": "When it comes to energy, we need consumers who are willing to buy more efficient appliances and automobiles, and conserve where they can.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046449", "text": "So yes, this recession made matters much worse, but the African-American community has been struggling for a long time.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046450", "text": "Partly, this was caused by the recession, which meant the government was taking in less while the demand for assistance for those who lost their jobs was far greater.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046451", "text": "With a new commitment to strengthening and enforcing rules against corruption, economic opportunity and prosperity will be more broadly shared.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000046452", "text": "It's our ability to make democracy work in our own nation.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046453", "text": "Our enemies respect no freedom of religion.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000046454", "text": "To make that higher education affordable for the children of working families.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046455", "text": "Americans like my grandfather, who went off to war just boys, returned home men, and traded one uniform and set of responsibilities for another.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046456", "text": "I'll bet a lot of us have seen people changed after a long bout of unemployment; how it can wear down even the strongest spirits.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000046457", "text": "We are a people that faced down war and depression; great challenges and great threats; and lit the way for the rest of the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046458", "text": "Now, I know the issue of exports and imports; the issue of trade and globalization; have long evoked the passions of a lot of people in this country.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046459", "text": "We'll strengthen relations with key partners like South Korea, Panama, and Colombia, with the goal of moving forward with existing agreements in a way that upholds our values.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046460", "text": "The United States is responsibly ending the war in Iraq, and we will partner with the Iraqi people for their long-term prosperity and security.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046461", "text": "America's Army represents the full breadth of the American experience.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046462", "text": "This time of war began in Afghanistan - a place that may seem as far from this peaceful bend in the Hudson River as anywhere on Earth.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046463", "text": "As we end the war in Iraq, we are pressing forward in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046464", "text": "We face a tough fight in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046465", "text": "They lead no religion.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000046466", "text": "Extremists want a war between America and Islam, but Muslims are a part of our national life, including those who serve in our Army.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046467", "text": "Where human dignity is denied, America opposes poverty and is a source of opportunity.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000046468", "text": "For when our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it conveniently ignores the fact in our democracy, government is us.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046469", "text": "I said we'd end the Iraq war as swiftly and responsibly as possible - and that's a promise we're keeping.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046470", "text": "So, we know how important an education is in the 21st century - it's a prerequisite for prosperity.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046471", "text": "The second part is making sure the education that's being offered to our college students - and in particular, our community college students - is preparing them to graduate ready for a career.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046472", "text": "And we ought to make a significant investment to help other states do the same.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046473", "text": "Over the past two years, we have faced the worst recession since the Great Depression.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046474", "text": "While a number of factors led to such a severe recession, the primary cause was a breakdown in our financial system.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046475", "text": "This city has the second highest unemployment in the state, and I can only imagine how much pain that's caused and how many lives have been upended.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000046476", "text": "We all agree that education is the key to a twenty-first century economy.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046477", "text": "And surely, we can all agree that these jobs shouldn't be going to China, or Germany - they should be here in America.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046478", "text": "One war historian said that while he believed Korea was the greatest of all trials for American troops, their performance was nothing short of miraculous.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046479", "text": "Sixty years later, a friendship that was forged in war has become an alliance that has led to greater security and untold progress - not only in the Republic of Korea, but throughout Asia.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046480", "text": "One of the most significant contributors to this recession was a financial crisis as dire as any we've known in generations.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046481", "text": "And last month also brought the largest increase in manufacturing employment since 1998, which is a positive sign for communities like Youngstown.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046482", "text": "Deputy Secretary David Hayes and other top Department of the Interior officials spoke about the importance of renewable energy and job creation, climate impact and adaptation, and efforts to support and maintain the treasured landscapes of America in the emerging clean energy economy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046483", "text": "Through nearly 20 programs , financial incentives, tax credits, loans and guarantees, the federal government provides owners and operators of rental housing with significant support to provide housing to renters.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046484", "text": "Owners and operators of federally-assisted housing are stewards of important public resources and should access rental assistance both to prevent unnecessary human suffering and to protect the public investment in affordable housing.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046485", "text": "Only with reliable and efficient infrastructure can rural America's bounty be brought to market at home and abroad.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046486", "text": "We must also invest in making high-speed Internet infrastructure more attractive by streamlining arduous review, approval, and permitting processes.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046487", "text": "North Korea now faces a choice.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046488", "text": "Haiti is currently experiencing serious security concerns, social unrest, an increase in human rights abuses, crippling poverty, and lack of basic resources, which are exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, said Secretary Mayorkas.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046489", "text": "So even if a farmer's heirs decide to sell the farm, they only pay tax on any gain above that exemption.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000046490", "text": "Judah immigrated to Israel after the war and was present for the declaration of the Israeli State in 1948.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046491", "text": "In this capacity, Rosen has worked with political leaders to ensure vigilance against anti-Semitism, racism, and other forms of bigotry.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000046492", "text": "After college, Szabat was a cavalry officer in the US Army, patrolling the East-West German border.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046493", "text": "President Kiir and Riek Machar and their cronies are personally responsible for this new war and self-inflicted disaster.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046494", "text": "Before independence, when the war was at its height, I visited with people across the country.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046495", "text": "In Marial Bai, in Rumbek, in Lui-I heard people describe how war was devastating their lives and tearing their families apart.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046496", "text": "While refugee admissions are only a small part of our broader humanitarian efforts in Syria and the region, the President understood the important message this decision would send, not just to the Syrian people but to the broader international community.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000046497", "text": "We condemn this action by Russia, for which it will bear additional consequences.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000046498", "text": "Representative Allyson Schwartz President Obama's announcement that a deal has been reached on the proposed trade agreement with Korea is an important step in strengthening the U.S. economy.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046499", "text": "South Korea is a key ally and trading partner to the United States, and this agreement will strengthen our relationship and add billions to the U.S. economy through increased exports.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046500", "text": "As a global company committed to free trade, Ford Motor Company applauds the outlines of the revised U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement that were announced today.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000046501", "text": "Implementation of this agreement with Korea will provide great opportunities for U.S. workers, businesses and farmers to increase exports and provide expanded services in this key market.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046502", "text": "Adopting a free trade agreement with Korea would offer a tremendous avenue to continue our success in the global marketplace.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046503", "text": "CEA represents over 2000 of the world's most cutting edge technology companies, two thirds of which are engaged in international trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046504", "text": "Unemployment benefits are considered the most effective form of stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000046505", "text": "We need to keep fighting for robust investment in America's future to spark a sustainable recovery.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046506", "text": "It was a steep price, but this deal will mean about 2 million jobs saved or created over the next two years.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000046507", "text": "Future GHG rules aligned with industry investment, and supportive governmental policies will be essential to significantly reducing GHG emissions, while maintaining a vital U.S. auto manufacturing sector and the millions of jobs it supports.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046508", "text": "CEA estimates that if state and local government employment had held steady during the recovery, the unemployment rate would currently be below 7 percent.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046509", "text": "During the current 42-month consecutive streak of increasing private sector employment, state and local government employment has fallen by 507, 000, including the loss of 267, 000 education positions.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046510", "text": "Employment in the Federal government fell by 7, 000 jobs.", "issue": "Employment"}
{"id": "0000046511", "text": "Retail trade lost 33, 800 jobs, construction lost 7, 000 jobs, and government lost 1, 000 jobs.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046512", "text": "And two years ago, our democracy faced its greatest threat since the Civil War.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046513", "text": "Inflation has been a global problem because of the pandemic that disrupted supply chains and Putin's war that disrupted energy and food supplies.", "issue": "Inflation"}
{"id": "0000046514", "text": "Look, the Inflation Reduction Act is also the most significant investment ever to tackle the climate crisis.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046515", "text": "We united NATO and built a global coalition.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000046516", "text": "I am committed to work with China where it can advance American interests and benefit the world.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046517", "text": "For the last few years our democracy has been threatened, attacked, and put at risk.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046518", "text": "The ailment is similar to ALS and causes a person to progressively lose control of their motor skills.", "issue": "ailment"}
{"id": "0000046519", "text": "Women make up nearly half the workforce; American jobs depend on investment in the care economy.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046520", "text": "Families struggled to find caregivers before the pandemic, and it's even more challenging now.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046521", "text": "President Biden's economic agenda to build back our country better will make generational investments in human infrastructure and other critical priorities like clean energy investments that position us to tackle the climate crisis.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046522", "text": "Talona Coleman, Early Childcare Teacher Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I would benefit so much from investments in my compensation, to alleviate some of the financial burdens that we face as Early Childcare Professionals.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000046523", "text": "Anu Sarkar, Early Childcare Teacher West Bloomfield, M ichigan I have been in early childhood education for over 26 years, proudly owning and running a family group home child care program.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046524", "text": "Both governments have committed funds for border infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046525", "text": "President Trump's plan to fix the nation's ailing infrastructure calls for generating $1.5 trillion in upgrades through ventures involving the federal government, state government and private industry.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046526", "text": "Infrastructure Could Benefit from Trump's Regulatory Reforms Deregulation has been a major focus of the Trump administration, and those efforts have paid off in increased economic activity.", "issue": "Infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046527", "text": "That plus meaningful streamlining of the permitting process should open the door for significant new investment in American infrastructure.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046528", "text": "President Trump won a major victory on trade on Monday, supplanting the North American Free Trade Agreement and replacing it with something far more beneficial.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000046529", "text": "Monday's news of the U.S.-Mexico agreement on trade pushed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes to record highs, and indexes across Europe and Asia followed Wall Street's lead, inching to multi-month highs. ...", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046530", "text": "Over 400, 000 brave men and women in the Reserves and the National Guard have been mobilized to fight the war on terror since September 11.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046531", "text": "This $66, 000 investment demonstrates our thanks and appreciation to our team for their tireless efforts and commitment to the bank.'", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046532", "text": "The enemies of freedom have waged war against us by stealth and deceit.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046533", "text": "But we have made important progress in bringing inflation down while maintaining a resilient recovery.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000046534", "text": "In other words, because of focused and decisive policy action, households are coming out of the pandemic better off than before on key metrics of economic security - something that typically takes years to happen after economic downturns.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046535", "text": "Building on the strongest two years of manufacturing job growth in 40 years, the President signed the most significant investment in manufacturing, science, innovation, and industrial strategy in over 50 years.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046536", "text": "One is an investment that will allow the U.S. government to crack down on wealthy tax cheats and improve taxpayer services.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046537", "text": "Congressional Republicans, led by Senator Rick Scott, have called for a new minimum tax on the middle class - firefighters and teachers - that would mean an average of almost $1, 500 less in families' pockets each year.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000046538", "text": "Yes, Stalin - the man whose brutal dictatorship and disastrous policies killed roughly 20 million Russians and others through famine, forced collectivization, executions, and labor camps.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000046539", "text": "But in China, these ideas remain as fundamental to the Chinese Communist Party as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights do to us as Americans.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046540", "text": "China has sought leadership positions within many global bodies.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046541", "text": "China now heads four out of fifteen UN specialized agencies, more than the U.S., UK, France, and Russia, the other members of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, combined.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046542", "text": "These CCP tactics in international organizations, as we have seen with the coronavirus, are a major cause of concern not just for the United States, but to the world.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000046543", "text": "Given the importance of infrastructure investment to economic growth, President Trump directed the Council on Environmental Quality to modernize the Federal government's NEPA regulations.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046544", "text": "This direct aid supported Americans' income through the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046545", "text": "Since his first day at the D.C. Circuit, Judge Kavanaugh has stood ready to invest whatever amount of energy is necessary to get the reasoning and the result right in every case ...", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046546", "text": "Continued efforts to improve institutional and regulatory frameworks are also required in order to unlock private investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046547", "text": "The Central Asia Institute promotes and supports community-based education and literacy, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046548", "text": "By standing with the people of Africa in the fight against this treatable and preventable disease, he has helped lift a burden of unnecessary suffering.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046549", "text": "Mandatory hidden fees risk obscuring the full price, making it harder for consumers to comparison shop - to choose their preferred product and the best deal.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000046550", "text": "This causes consumers to underestimate the total price of what they're buying, often increasing total payments.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000046551", "text": "And they have done so in the midst of war and depression; at moments of great strife and great struggle.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046552", "text": "As one woman wrote me, We are strained but hopeful, struggling but encouraged.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046553", "text": "Next, we can put Americans to work today building the infrastructure of tomorrow.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046554", "text": "The only way to move to full employment is to lay a new foundation for long-term economic growth, and finally address the problems that America's families have confronted for years.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046555", "text": "They are making serious investments in clean energy because they want those jobs.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046556", "text": "Last year, we made the largest investment in basic research funding in history - an investment that could lead to the world's cheapest solar cells or treatment that kills cancer cells but leaves healthy ones untouched.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046557", "text": "Now, the price of college tuition is just one of the burdens facing the middle-class.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000046558", "text": "We will reward good governance, reduce corruption, and support the rights of all Afghans - men and women alike.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000046559", "text": "As a candidate, I promised that I would end this war, and that is what I am doing as President.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046560", "text": "That is why North Korea now faces increased isolation, and stronger sanctions - sanctions that are being vigorously enforced.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046561", "text": "The development of modern, resilient infrastructure, including hydropower facilities, is a priority for this Administration.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046562", "text": "At the event, the White House launched the Pledge to Embrace Technology to Advance America's Health in order to reassure patients, providers, and payers that telehealth is here to stay and will be covered over the long term.", "issue": "Technology"}
{"id": "0000046563", "text": "After the Coronavirus spread from China across the globe, President Trump took quick action to reshore critical supply chains , including those for key medicines.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046564", "text": "In Russia, the Trump Administration's sanctions punished the oligarchs who profited from destabilizing and malicious activities.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000046565", "text": "The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services says unemployment in the state fell to 3.5 percent last month - the lowest level ever recorded.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000046566", "text": "The state Department of Workforce Services Friday stated that nonfarm payroll employment grew by an estimated 3.6 percent from September 2017 to last month.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046567", "text": "The labor market, which is viewed as being near or at full employment, is steadily boosting wage growth, which could help to support consumer spending...", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046568", "text": "Wages grew 2.6 percent year-over-year from 2017 to $52, 664, making it the fastest wage growth seen since April 2017.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000046569", "text": "After decades of neglect by Washington, our economy, immigration system, trade deals, employment numbers, and prospects of peacefully ending years of war abroad are better than they have ever been.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046570", "text": "In the summer of 2016, a few months after the fentanyl letter, the Obama administration declared the Zika virus to be a public health emergency and had already requested $1.9 billion from Congress to address it.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000046571", "text": "Having access to high-quality, affordable child care supports Rodriguez as she completes her education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046572", "text": "In recognition of sustained U.S. support for Ukraine nearly a year after Russia launched its unprovoked attack, the First Lady has again invited the Ambassador of Ukraine, Oksana Markarova , to join her as a guest for the State of the Union.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000046573", "text": "Additionally, four branches of the military are represented among the National Finalists.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046574", "text": "Additionally, four branches of the military are represented among the Regional Finalists.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046575", "text": "Additionally, four branches of the military are represented among the Regional Finalists.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046576", "text": "While in the Army, Cristina received the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal and she continues to volunteer and serve underprivileged communities today.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046577", "text": "His focus on closing the achievement gap through the use of one-to-one technology has increased state test scores by over 30 percentage points, which assisted in the school's state report card being increased by two letter grades.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046578", "text": "An attack helicopter pilot by trade, Katelyn conducted combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan and counter-piracy operations in the Horn of Africa and Gulf of Aden.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046579", "text": "Modern infrastructure is critical to U.S competitiveness, and the ability of small businesses, their workforce and entrepreneurs to operate effectively and productively.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046580", "text": "I know the threat of terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000046581", "text": "Our office supported historic civil rights cases and major civil cases; protecting the people of this country from crime and especially from violent crime is a high calling of the men and women of the Department of Justice.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000046582", "text": "Now more than ever, the U.S. needs significant investment to ensure we remain competitive on a global basis.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046583", "text": "If the last year has taught us anything, it is that broadband is vital 21st century infrastructure, said Bloomfield.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046584", "text": "The European Commission and the U.S. government will seek to intensify their cooperation on agriculture, sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures, and food safety, and the TEC will review the state of progress at its next meeting.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000046585", "text": "In order to reduce unnecessary costs for transatlantic trade, the European Commission has proposed legislation that would allow the continued import of products into the EU with dual labelling of measurement units.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046586", "text": "The European Commission and the U.S. government will include in their discussions on secure trade the issue of the eventual implementation of the U.S. legislation on 100% scanning of containers.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046587", "text": "Barriers to international investment deprive the global economy and the economies of countries that erect those barriers of a vital source of economic growth.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046588", "text": "We welcome commercially-driven investment from these investors and note the importance of transparent investment policies.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046589", "text": "As two of the world's largest sources and recipients of international investment, we are committed to promoting the free flow of investment and the critical role it plays in strengthening both the transatlantic and the world economy.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046590", "text": "In 2019, investment was 3.3 percent higher than the projections and the capital stock is on track to expand across each major asset class.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046591", "text": "Another major TCJA provision created Opportunity Zones to spur investment and increase investment and labor demand in economically-depressed areas.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046592", "text": "For a family with two full time workers at this wage, this represents an increase of nearly $1, 800 per year.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000046593", "text": "China promised to come into compliance by March 2011, but informed the United States at the deadline that this would not be possible.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046594", "text": "In an October 2019 event at the White House, ONDCP recognized members of Colombia's military and law enforcement who have been severely wounded in the fight against drug trafficking and terrorism.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046595", "text": "The European Union and Japan also requested WTO consultations with China on this matter today.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046596", "text": "China imposes several different types of unfair export restraints on the materials at issue in today's consultations request, including export duties, export quotas, export pricing requirements as well as related export procedures and requirements.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046597", "text": "Because China is a top global producer for these key inputs, its harmful policies artificially increase prices for the inputs outside of China while lowering prices in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046598", "text": "Major emerging market economies such as China and India also experienced slowdowns.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046599", "text": "Space capabilities enable the U.S. military to protect and defend the U.S. homeland and to advance the national and collective security interests of the United States and its allies and partners.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046600", "text": "The United States will remain a global leader in science and engineering by pioneering space research and technology that propels exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046601", "text": "The United States will protect space-related critical infrastructure and strengthen the security of the U.S. space industrial base.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046602", "text": "Space systems are an essential component of U.S. critical infrastructure - by directly providing important services and by enabling other critical infrastructure sectors and industries.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046603", "text": "Furthermore, the United States will enhance the protection of terrestrial critical infrastructure from space weather events, which can disrupt services such as electric power, telecommunications, water supply, health care, and transportation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046604", "text": "Investing in STEM education is critical to continuing U.S. leadership into the next generation and preparing the nation's STEM workforce to fuel the economy of the future.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046605", "text": "There are few who dread war more than those of us who have served in uniform.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046606", "text": "Our administration has developed a strategy to counter Iran that will raise that cost.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046607", "text": "Iran's activities in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon threaten the very existence of Israel, and the global reach of Hezbollah threatens us right here in the homeland.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000046608", "text": "Iran freed American hostages for the sake of a deal and then turned immediately to holding still more.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046609", "text": "Our diplomatic efforts with Russia will prove challenging, but as in previous confrontations with Moscow, must continue.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000046610", "text": "One of President Bush's priorities is using information and communications technology to support teacher training and promote higher educational standards.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046611", "text": "The highly paid school union bosses will falsely argue that is an attack on public education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046612", "text": "For example, the NEXUS-Air pilot program will evaluate iris scanning technology and the new Canadian Permanent Resident Card is biometric-ready.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046613", "text": "Both governments have committed funds for border infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046614", "text": "Help is here for financially stressed families trying to put food on the table, said Stacy Dean, deputy undersecretary for USDA's Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000046615", "text": "In contrast, in the 3 years before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans experienced unprecedented gains in personal income and wealth, as pro-growth policies raised living standards while ameliorating the gap in wealth inequality for the first time since 1992.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046616", "text": "The report also showed sharp contractions in business fixed investment, residential investment, inventory investment, and state & local government spending which contributed to the decline.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046617", "text": "This pandemic caused a sharp drop in real personal income as many workers faced lower wages, fewer hours or job severance.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046618", "text": "Trump Has Just Revolutionized Global Trade by Replacing NAFTA with USMCA Trump administration negotiators reached a major agreement with Canada on trade over the weekend.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000046619", "text": "In Central America, the root causes of migration run deep-and migration from the region has a direct impact on the United States.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000046620", "text": "First, addressing the root causes of migration is critical to our overall immigration effort.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000046621", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic and extreme weather conditions have indeed exacerbated the root causes of migration-which include corruption, violence, trafficking, and poverty.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000046622", "text": "Private sector investment not only boosts economic opportunity, but it also incentivizes regional governments to create the conditions on the ground to attract such investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046623", "text": "By providing the funding to support the improvement of this critical infrastructure, MARAD and the Department are ensuring these services will succeed during the Nation's ongoing economic recovery.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046624", "text": "A key driver of job creation in the Recovery and Reinvestment Plan is the largest investment in America's crumbling roads, bridges and transit lines since the creation of the national highway system.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046625", "text": "Yet discrimination continues to exist in college athletic programs--and we should be vigilant in enforcing the law and protecting this important civil right.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000046626", "text": "Elizabeth Alexander brings energy and broad experience in communications, most recently leading my press shop in the Senate and on the Foreign Relations Committee.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046627", "text": "Sam Myers Sr., Trip Director for the Vice President Sam Myers, Sr. is a veteran of eight presidential campaigns and has worked closely with presidents and presidential candidates for the past thirty-five years.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046628", "text": "Further, the United States is projected to face a shortage of almost 60, 000 primary care doctors, dentists, and psychiatrists over the next decade, and needs an estimated 158, 000 new nurses to graduate every year for the rest of the decade.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000046629", "text": "And the challenges we face are broader than Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000046630", "text": "For women entrepreneurs-and all entrepreneurs-the pandemic has highlighted the importance of our nation's care infrastructure.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046631", "text": "Today's awards represent a truly historic opportunity to accelerate efforts in America's distressed and underserved communities to overcome the persistent economic effects of the COVD-19 pandemic, said CDFI Fund Director Jodie Harris.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046632", "text": "To be eligible to compete for funding under this round of grants, applicants must be institutions of higher education, as defined in the Higher Education Act of 1965, which offer programs that can be completed in not more than 2 years.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000046633", "text": "The United Nations imposed significant new sanctions on North Korea last weekend, in response to the dictatorship's repeated ballistic missile tests.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046634", "text": "The United Nations imposed significant new sanctions on North Korea last weekend, in response to the dictatorship's repeated ballistic missile tests.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046635", "text": "Authoritarian regimes such as China's are unimpressed if international agreements don't have teeth as well as smiles.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046636", "text": "The NAMII will provide the innovation infrastructure needed to support new additive manufacturing technology and products in order to become a global center of excellence for additive manufacturing.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046637", "text": "PNC provides consumer and small business banking primarily in 15 states and the District of Columbia, with residential mortgage banking and corporate and institutional banking offices across the continental United States.", "issue": "banking"}
{"id": "0000046638", "text": "This commitment includes reducing energy in the 2.4 million square foot Capitol Complex by 20 percent by 2015.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046639", "text": "After trying for months to work with Congress on education, we've decided to take matters into our own hands.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046640", "text": "Improving visa processing capacity for China and Brazil is particularly important because of this growth.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046641", "text": "The USDA provides leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on sounds public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000046642", "text": "Prioritizing our infrastructure There is ample reason that President Biden has been pushing hard for approval of a 10-year, trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill to upgrade our core.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046643", "text": "Semiconductor push comes to Manassas [ Raimondo said the shortage is proving how crucial the semiconductor supply chain is to the country, but manufacturing has recently been dominated by Taiwan.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000046644", "text": "Throughout her day trip, Fudge offered a vision of treating housing as an essential piece of the nation's infrastructure along with the roads and bridges that lead to them.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046645", "text": "Judge Kavanaugh's opinions have recognized the limits that the constitution and law place on the federal administrative state, and this is the type of judicial philosophy that will help to sustain liberty and economic freedom.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000046646", "text": "The Republican Governor's Association Governor Terry Branstad is an exceptional choice by President-elect Trump to represent America as U.S. Ambassador to China, said RGA Chairman Governor Scott Walker.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046647", "text": "China is in the heart of Governor Branstad, and he understands how important China is for the U.S.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046648", "text": "Vinnie will bring a wealth of business experience and military understanding to this critical national security position--an inspiring choice.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000046649", "text": "From his humble beginnings to his West Point appointment to his service with the 101st Airborne Division to his entrepreneurial business spirit, the U.S. Army will benefit greatly from his dedication, leadership and passion for this country.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046650", "text": "His experience in the military and his success in business make him the kind of leader the Army needs to be effective in protecting and defending our nation.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046651", "text": "In nominating Vinnie as his choice for Secretary of the Army, President-elect Trump has chosen the right leader for our nation's soldiers.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046652", "text": "His interests range from education to technology, from the military to the Middle East.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046653", "text": "It was clear that his education at West Point, and his leadership skills from active duty service would accept nothing less than complete restoration of trading no matter the challenges presented.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046654", "text": "I have toured the border first hand and will be making additional trips.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000046655", "text": "After years of careless immigration policies and leaders who have turned a blind eye to the chaos at our southern border, it's reassuring we now have a President who treats illegal immigration like the national security crisis that it is.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000046656", "text": "A weak border has consequences for the whole country.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000046657", "text": "The market for reliable and affordable energy is strong, but right now our high tax rate and over-regulation punishes companies for doing business in the U.S.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000046658", "text": "The President was strong in his condemnation of Iran as a corrupt dictatorship, economically depleted, a destabilizing force in the Middle East, and a chief exporter of violence and terror.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046659", "text": "Trump, in the strongest terms, denounced the regimes of North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046660", "text": "The nuclear agreement struck by the previous administration with Iran is fatally flawed.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046661", "text": "In no circumstance can we allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon and President Obama's deal laid out a road map for Iran to do just that.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046662", "text": "I continue to believe that the pact with Iran, negotiated by the Obama Administration, is a terrible deal for America and our allies.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046663", "text": "Iran is still the leading state sponsor of terrorism, and its illegal ballistic missile program is advancing.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046664", "text": "As a Marine combat veteran, I know that weakness only invites further aggression by our adversaries.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046665", "text": "There has not been one new EU sanction against Iran since the deal was implemented, despite Iran's continued human rights violations, support for terror, and pursuit of ballistic missiles.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046666", "text": "Iran has continued to engage in aggressive activity and to support terrorism despite the Obama Administration's flawed deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046667", "text": "This 'deal' propped up the wrong regime, providing Iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terror, with a jackpot of up to $150 billion in sanctions relief, without even asking for a signature.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046668", "text": "The regime in Iran has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted and that its true intentions are the ultimate destruction of Israel and the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046669", "text": "Our military is simply the best the world has ever seen because of the men and women who volunteer to serve and because of the vitality and quality of our defense industry and entrepreneurs.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046670", "text": "Critically, our military and our defense industry will be weakened and undermined if it cannot benefit from private sector innovation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046671", "text": "China was invited to joint WTO and, in so doing, embrace and abide by the rules and obligations of that organization.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046672", "text": "China has leveraged its WTO membership and market position to strip technology and the underlying IP from U.S., Japanese, and European firms active in all advanced technology sectors.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046673", "text": "Critically, our military will be further weakened if it cannot benefit from private sector innovation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046674", "text": "China's theft of U.S. intellectual property -- including technology from our defense contractors.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046675", "text": "Because he is such a great man, one of the most difficult decisions I have ever made was leaving his employment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046676", "text": "It would have secured the border and focused enforcement on the very worst criminals, like sex offenders, human rights violators and war criminals.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000046677", "text": "Through his action today, President Trump sent a strong signal to Iran and other foreign adversaries that nuclear proliferation has consequences ...", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046678", "text": "Iran has continued to terrorize & threaten its neighbors.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046679", "text": "The Iranian regime, the largest sponsor of terrorism on the planet, has no interest in abiding by the Nuclear Deal.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000046680", "text": "Iran has proven to be an untrustworthy partner on the international stage and today's announcement reinforces our commitment to upholding and defending peace and stability around the world.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046681", "text": "President recognizes Iran has lied since striking the deal with Obama.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046682", "text": "This deal was flawed from the beginning, allowing Iran to continue their destabilizing activities in the region, all while sun-setting the nuclear prohibition provisions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046683", "text": "Iran is a terrorist state whose desire to destroy Israel and undermine the security of the U.S. is well known.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046684", "text": "This nave, dangerous deal threatens Israel and ensures Iran - the number one state sponsor of terror - has a path to a nuclear arsenal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046685", "text": "With HR playing the critical role of leading industry's recruiting and retention efforts, SHRM enthusiastically pledges its support for an investment in lifelong education and workplace training.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046686", "text": "Like tax reform, a significant investment in our nation's infrastructure has the power to supercharge manufacturing in America by improving our competitiveness while also making our families and communities safer.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046687", "text": "She is a distinguished 33yr career veteran of the agency & extremely qualified to lead her peers.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046688", "text": "She is a 33 year veteran of the agency who will provide the leadership necessary to confront emerging threats to America's national security.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046689", "text": "Gina Haspel is a strong, intelligent woman of integrity who has unquestionable qualifications to serve as our nation's next CIA director ...", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046690", "text": "NSP fully supports fairer and open trade and will continue to work with officials to achieve long-term trade solutions.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046691", "text": "The United States government has long-recognized that the Communist Party of China uses a diverse toolkit of unfair trade practices to steal U.S. technology and intellectual property - the lifeblood of our economy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046692", "text": "Whether looking forward or backward, China's coercive practices with regard with technology and intellectual property call for strong American action.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046693", "text": "Looking forward, China describes global technological leadership as a top priority.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046694", "text": "Yet an accumulation of market distortions, state-owned enterprises, intellectual property theft, and other predatory trade and investment practices by China have made it more difficult to do business on a level playing field.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046695", "text": "The VA Mission Act will greatly improve health care for our veterans, and my language within the legislation will ensure that no other veteran is ever denied life-saving transplant coverage because their organ donor is not a veteran.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046696", "text": "This legislation takes major steps to improve healthcare for our nation's veterans!", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000046697", "text": "We have made great strides in the fight against terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000046698", "text": "I am grateful for commitment to ending the epidemic and getting treatment for those who need it.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046699", "text": "Fair and reciprocal trade will make American businesses even more competitive.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046700", "text": "His unwavering commitment to promoting America's interests and insisting on fair and reciprocal trade will deliver even more prosperity to the American people.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046701", "text": "For decades, American policy toward North Korea has failed, and I commend for not accepting the status quo.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046702", "text": "This an historic opportunity to end the Korean War, get North Korea to give up their weapons and missiles that threaten us and the world in return for security guarantees and prosperity.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046703", "text": "NATO welcomes the historic summit between the President of the United States and the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000046704", "text": "NATO strongly supports all efforts leading towards the eventual denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000046705", "text": "I am extraordinarily pleased that this epidemic will receive the attention it so badly needs on all fronts from the federal government.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046706", "text": "When he visited us in the Senate earlier this week, he discussed the national epidemic and his administration's efforts to fight back.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046707", "text": "The President's decision to declare this epidemic a public health emergency is a positive step forward, and I'm hopeful it will lead to a better coordinated federal response to this crisis.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046708", "text": "This declaration makes fighting the opioid epidemic a true national priority and draws attention to the urgency of this crisis.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046709", "text": "On behalf of thousands of Christians across Seoul and all of South Korea, I commend the U.S. administration's long-overdue recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046710", "text": "South Korea is an important economic and strategic partner, and modernizing this trade agreement will help strengthen the ties between our two countries.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046711", "text": "The enhancements made to the trade agreement better our relationship with South Korea and encourage the expansion of America's trade economy.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046712", "text": "Overall, the new KORUS is a victory for free trade, which levels the playing field and reinforces our bond with a crucial American ally.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046713", "text": "With today's announcement, we see an even stronger partnership with South Korea and a firm commitment from the Administration to the Asia-Pacific region.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046714", "text": "Korea has long been an important trading partner for U.S. agriculture and currently ranks as our 6th-highest value market.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000046715", "text": "The president is right to make improving America's infrastructure a national priority, and last week's budget agreement included a $20 billion down payment on this goal.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046716", "text": "Rebuilding and modernizing rural infrastructure is critical for my constituents in #GA12.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046717", "text": "President Trump has made fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure a top priority, and I could not agree more.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046718", "text": "As our state continues to grow, we must invest wisely in #infrastructure that will meet the needs of tomorrow.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046719", "text": "Investing in infrastructure is key to Iowa's bright future.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046720", "text": "President Trump has made it a priority to rebuild our infrastructure since the day he took office and he has followed through on that commitment.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046721", "text": "Infrastructure includes more than roads and bridges; we will also rebuild our nation's crumbling water infrastructure and clean up contaminated land, both of which are critical to environmental protection and economic growth in our communities.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046722", "text": "The plan released today by the Trump Administration to renew America's aging infrastructure is an important first step.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046723", "text": "Accelerating permitting processes and attracting private investment are critical components to fixing our roads, bridges, airports and seaports.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046724", "text": "The Administration's focus on removing hurdles to deployment of the small cells that will help power next generation networks is important as wireless technology races toward 5G.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046725", "text": "To get projects back on track, now the President is calling for a substantial $1.5 trillion investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046726", "text": "The opioid epidemic continues to ravage our communities, and President Trump is right to continue the fight against it.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046727", "text": "We must stop the tide of this epidemic so the American people can live freer and happier lives.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046728", "text": "It also cuts off the flow of illegal drugs across our borders and within communities, toughens criminal penalties for major drug traffickers, and expands opportunities for proven treatments.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000046729", "text": "At the Department of Justice, we have made ending the drug epidemic a priority.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046730", "text": "POTUS' opioid initiative boldly confronts the driving forces behind the opioid epidemic and presents a pathway forward for so many Americans who have endured terrible hardships because of its effects.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046731", "text": "Alex brings a wealth of private and public sector knowledge that will prepare him well for this crucial role.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000046732", "text": "He is a veteran of HHS, bringing with him a wealth of institutional knowledge that will be instrumental in delivering patient-centered health care and combating the opioid crisis.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046733", "text": "We applaud the President for supporting agriculture and rural America and we applaud Secretary Perdue, and other senior federal government officials, for their work on the Agriculture and Rural Prosperity Task Force.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000046734", "text": "Since his inauguration, President Trump has made agriculture and rural America a high priority.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000046735", "text": "In a time when we are facing serious international challenges, from Russian meddling, to North Korean saber-rattling, to an increasingly assertive China, it is essential that the President have a qualified Secretary of State who he trusts on the job.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046736", "text": "As America faces grave threats from around the world, especially with the rise of China and Russia, I am confident that Mike Pompeo is the right choice to serve as our next Secretary of State.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046737", "text": "With several critical diplomatic issues currently moving forward, from Iran to North Korea, I am confident that Mike will provide the best possible counsel and direction for the President.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000046738", "text": "Opportunity Zones in Mississippi will attract significant private sector investment, help grow our state's economy and create new jobs.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046739", "text": "The president touted building a united front against North Korea and negotiating billions of dollars in trade deals during a nearly two-week trip to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046740", "text": "I'm glad they have a first woman as head of CIA, and I'm glad it's Gina, because frankly, she is someone who really knows the CIA inside out.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046741", "text": "Indiana is a great example of how tax relief and reforms like these can lead to record-high employment, more investment in education and innovation, and more manufacturing right here in America.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046742", "text": "I believe strongly in free trade, but it also has to be fair trade, he said in his address to Congress Tuesday night.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046743", "text": "Instead of addressing its misconduct, China has retaliated against American farmers and manufacturers.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046744", "text": "For example, China's unfair industrial policies, like their Made in China 2025 policy initiative, clearly state China's goal of taking away domestic and international market share from foreigners.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046745", "text": "In 2012, President Barack Obama authorized the deployment of guardsmen to the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000046746", "text": "Historically, all family units apprehended at the border have been released with little more than a paper order to appear in court at a later date.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000046747", "text": "These proposals, if enacted into law, would have secured our porous border and addressed many of the key problems in our immigration system.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000046748", "text": "A native of Arizona, Sergeant First Class Remsburg joined the Army on his 18th birthday after Craig refused to sign the papers for the 17-year-old Cory to join on his own.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046749", "text": "Joey, a proponent of STEM education, is determined to teach other kids about how they can make and do anything they want.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046750", "text": "Joey, a proponent of STEM education, is determined to teach other kids about how they can make and do anything they want.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046751", "text": "At the United States Digital Service, her background in technology unites with her commitment to service.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046752", "text": "Originally from Anchorage, Lydia Doza's upbringing in three Alaskan tribes - Inupiaq, Tsimshian, and Haida - as well as her grandmother Joanne's influence taught her the value of an education and the importance of mentorship.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046753", "text": "Originally from Hyderabad, India, Satya received a master's in computer science and a master's in business administration from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and University of Chicago, respectively.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046754", "text": "The Task Force's leadership also includes Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on food and agriculture and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on homebuilding and semiconductors.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000046755", "text": "Disruptions in global shipping and rapid shifts in demand have led the cost of shipping containers between China and the West Coast to grow more than 90% compared to 2019.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046756", "text": "It will also support improved surveillance, expanded and targeted testing, and other activities.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000046757", "text": "By providing researchers access to world leading technology here in our own backyard, we take an additional leap towards ending this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046758", "text": "She is the first woman to command a Coast Guard vessel during combat operations and became the first Coast Guard woman to receive the Bronze Star medal for her service at the outset of Operation Iraqi Freedom.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046759", "text": "Missy has also reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon and Libya, including covering the final days of the Gaddafi regime in 2011.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046760", "text": "Prior to state government, Carolyn spent seven years working on climate science and energy policy at academic institutions around the world.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046761", "text": "As Bhutan's first 100% foreign direct investment, MHG takes a systemic approach to creating reliable income generation opportunities for Bhutan's poorest families while restoring ecosystem health and maintaining community cohesion.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046762", "text": "Lloyd received a B.S. in Political Science from the U.S. Naval Academy where he was a senior staff member for the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference and a varsity letterman in sprint football, and an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000046763", "text": "During her term as the Chair of the American Medical Association - Resident and Fellow Section where she represented nearly 40, 000 physicians, Tina targeted the physician burnout epidemic by convening the first national summit on resident physician wellbeing.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046764", "text": "As an active member of the community, he promotes early-age language education through his participation in the Interagency Language Roundtable.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046765", "text": "Christina recently redeployed to Afghanistan where, as the Director of Operations, she organized and led a 1, 700-soldier military intelligence unit to enable Afghan National Security Forces with over 56, 000 hours of intelligence collection.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046766", "text": "As an Infantry Officer, Dave led soldiers during multiple combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046767", "text": "As an Instructor Pilot on the $202 million C-17 aircraft, Joseph has flown over 270 combat hours in Afghanistan and Iraq, delivering the first M1A1 Abrams tank into Afghanistan in 2010.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046768", "text": "While at NATO, he provided politically informed military advice in defense of the 1 billion citizens in the 29-nation Alliance.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000046769", "text": "Adam is a Major in the United States Army and most recently served as the Aide-de-Camp to the commander of all North Atlantic Treaty Organization and United States Forces in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046770", "text": "As an Infantry Officer, he led soldiers in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, serving in the 101st Airborne Division, the 82nd Airborne Division, and the 2d Stryker Cavalry Regiment while stationed in Germany.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046771", "text": "As a leader in education, Ryan has won national awards from Leading For Children, the Council for Exceptional Children, and the National Council of Teachers of English.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046772", "text": "He deployed multiple times to Afghanistan, where he led a fire team and rifle squad of Rangers.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000046773", "text": "His remarks will focus on the importance of keeping higher education affordable and accessible for more than 7 million students by preventing student loan interest rates from doubling on July 1st.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046774", "text": "He holds a B.A. in political science and philosophy from Fordham University and an M.A. in government from Johns Hopkins University.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046775", "text": "This facility is an excellent example of public and private partnerships all across the country that support the brave women who have served in our military, said Deputy Assistant to the President Tina Tchen.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046776", "text": "High quality child care is a rare investment that pays off now, by enabling parents to work, and later, by supporting children's development and success in school and life.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046777", "text": "The President has made clear that addressing this epidemic is a priority for his Administration.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046778", "text": "Nearly a century ago, a movement that made high school widely available helped lead to rapid growth in the education and skills training of Americans, driving decades of economic growth and prosperity.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046779", "text": "A quality higher education continues to be the single most important investment students can make in their own futures and that we can make in the future of our nation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046780", "text": "Many states responded to the recession and resulting budget shortfalls by cutting funding for higher education.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000046781", "text": "It also aggravates issues at home and abroad including poverty, political instability and social tensions - conditions that can fuel instability and enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000046782", "text": "But we also need to decrease the harmful carbon pollution that causes climate change.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000046783", "text": "The Task Force's leadership also includes Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on food and agriculture and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on homebuilding and semiconductors.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000046784", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding economic crisis have been especially devastating for Black and Latino communities, who are experiencing a disproportionate number of COVID-19 infections and deaths as well as higher-than-average unemployment rates.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046785", "text": "On average, these costs represent 24 percent of the median hourly wage across States, and pose a substantial cost to work when layered on top of taxes on earnings.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000046786", "text": "Tax benefits reduce the price of child care for middle and higher income families.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000046787", "text": "It also has major societal implications in terms of employment and economic growth, and just as importantly, for the long-term outcomes of children.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046788", "text": "The dealership technician shortage impacts our business directly and we are excited and committed to pledge our support to the President's Workforce Initiative.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000046789", "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people across all 50 states benefit from Siemens' continued investment in its U.S. operations and its commitment to training, retraining and upskilling workers across the country.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046790", "text": "The president's workforce initiative and commitment to the education of the American worker is a real solution to our continuing employment challenges.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046791", "text": "Having our president focus on our country's infrastructure is key to America's success.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046792", "text": "Under Alabama has experienced record low unemployment, and 45, 000 new jobs were added to the state's economy in the past year.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000046793", "text": "We appreciate that the President identified infrastructure as one of his top priorities for legislative action this year, and indicated that it is not an option, but a necessity.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046794", "text": "The President's request for bipartisan cooperation in rebuilding our nation's failing infrastructure was welcome news to the Vinyl Institute.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046795", "text": "Expanded trade with Japan is critical for the economic growth and competitiveness of our businesses, workers, farmers, and ranchers.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046796", "text": "Now, let's get a better deal with China and protect our jobs and intellectual property.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046797", "text": "Free and fair trade will greatly benefit North Dakota and the country.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046798", "text": "Tennesseans have long benefited from free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046799", "text": "For America to operate from a position of strength, we must have the critical energy infrastructure to deliver affordable energy to power our lives.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046800", "text": "Her education, experience and personal convictions all play an important role in her judicial philosophy as a strict constructionist.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046801", "text": "Judge Barrett is a woman of extraordinary intellect who has dedicated her life and career to the judicial system and to the rule of law.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046802", "text": "Today realDonaldTrump signed his trade deal with China that puts America first-another huge win for workers, farmers, and consumers.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046803", "text": "I'm glad to see this administration holding China accountable.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046804", "text": "China agrees to buy an additional $32B in agriculture and $52.4B in energy products!", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046805", "text": "Under this agreement, China has agreed to purchase at least $40 billion of our agricultural products.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046806", "text": "Since taking office, implemented new deals with South Korea & Japan.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000046807", "text": "The Phase One trade deal with China will benefit all American consumers and reflects the work & have done to further grow our economy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046808", "text": "This first step is critical in holding China accountable for abuses in our trade relationship.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046809", "text": "The phase one trade deal with China is a historic agreement that is substantive & holds China accountable for IP theft & forced tech transfers.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046810", "text": "We've now got a phase I trade deal with China-in ADDITION to already record jobs numbers, wage increases, and economic growth.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046811", "text": "I support free, but fair trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046812", "text": "This agreement with China is a positive first step toward addressing one of our biggest trade challenges.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046813", "text": "Every President has pledged to take China on as they steal and rip off the United States and our economy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046814", "text": "While was preoccupied handing out custom pens after signing impeachment articles to her henchmen , was signing a trade deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046815", "text": "Forging a stronger trade agreement with China puts Iowa farmers, families, and small businesses first.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046816", "text": "During my economic development trip to China in September, numerous government officials expressed a desire to secure a trade deal and President Trump has delivered.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046817", "text": "Initial promises from the Phase One Trade Agreement with China include more than $200 billion in purchases that cover a number of industries that thrive in Missouri, including agriculture, energy, manufacturing & other services.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046818", "text": "The President's relentless focus on right-sizing our trade relationship with China is important for Nebraska.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046819", "text": "As a direct result of his leadership, we have achieved substantial progress towards free trade and a level playing field that benefits American agriculture, manufacturing, energy and services.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046820", "text": "President Trump's leadership in renegotiating the trade agreement with China shows a recommitment to supporting famers and agriculture across the nation, instead of foreign interests.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046821", "text": "This agreement will boost U.S. goods and services exports to China by a reported $200 billion over the next two years.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046822", "text": "We have long supported changes to how China conducts business with the world, in agriculture and other industries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046823", "text": "Free and fair trade with China represents countless opportunities for Iowa agriculture in a growing market with a demand for U.S. ag products.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046824", "text": "Signing the phase one agreement with China is a step in the right direction to resolving the trade dispute with China and restoring the trading relationship between our two countries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046825", "text": "The signing today of the 'phase one' trade agreement between the United States and the People's Republic of China represents an important step towards helping America's farmers and ranchers expand their exports.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046826", "text": "Re-opening the door for business in China was a huge win for America's turkey farmers and processors, creating the potential for this to once again become a major market for our products.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046827", "text": "We are encouraged by the Phase One deal with China, which eliminates non-tariff barriers to trade with our fastest growing market for meat and poultry products.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046828", "text": "The signing of a trade deal with China is a big step in the right direction as farmers in Ohio and across the country are eager to get back to business globally.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046829", "text": "Today's announcement of a deal that makes progress on regulatory restrictions and other nontariff barriers hindering dairy trade is a positive step forward.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046830", "text": "I was proud to see agriculture in the spotlight and slowly working our way back into this critical market.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000046831", "text": "It's time to tackle this epidemic head on, and the law just signed gives states the necessary tools to see that mission through.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046832", "text": "Together, we'll be able to fight this deadly disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046833", "text": "All levels of government must continue to focus on this epidemic and work together to provide relief to the men and women struggling with an addiction.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046834", "text": "A major advance today in the war against America's opioid crisis as President Trump signs bipartisan legislation targeting opioid abuse.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046835", "text": "Huge thanks to Trump leadership on fighting opioid epidemic invaluable.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046836", "text": "As chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, I know we can strengthen American infrastructure through targeted investments in aging roads and bridges.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046837", "text": "Tonight mentioned the importance of rebuilding America's infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046838", "text": "I support free-trade, but I also support working to achieve better deals for America.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046839", "text": "The President is right - we must protect our workers by making fair trade a priority The President hit the right note tonight.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046840", "text": "Perhaps no issue inspires bipartisanship like repairing our Nation's infrastructure does.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046841", "text": "Our Nation deserves the kind of investment in our infrastructure that makes us all proud.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046842", "text": "I am pleased discussed support for our great military and veterans at #SOTU.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046843", "text": "Proud President fully supports Artemis mission to get the first woman and next man to the moon!", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000046844", "text": "And without a focus on trimming unnecessary red tape, communities will continue to wait years for critical infrastructure they desperately need.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046845", "text": "I completely support President approach in trade negotiations with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046846", "text": "China has stolen our technological edge and is threatening us in defense, #cybersecurity and in space.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046847", "text": "At this point in time, I think we have to show China that we do mean business.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046848", "text": "I support 100% in holding China accountable for cheating, stealing, and overall unfair practices.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046849", "text": "While previous administrations have talked tough on China, the Trump administration has taken aggressive action to stop the unfair treatment of American industries and finally level the playing field.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046850", "text": "The U.S. has waited for almost 20 years for China to follow international rules on trade.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046851", "text": "Unless China stops cheating, no deal may be the best deal of all.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000046852", "text": "NAFTA has been good for agriculture, but a modernized agreement could provide better gains for Iowa farmers.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000046853", "text": "Updating trade agreements to improve market access and stability for Michigan's key industries - including agriculture and manufacturing - is critically important.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000046854", "text": "The USMCA will lead to balanced, reciprocal trade that supports high-paying jobs and grows both the U.S. economy and those of our neighbors and trading partners.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046855", "text": "International trade is critical to my home state of Florida, where exports and imports support 2.3 million jobs.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046856", "text": "The states were really created to be laboratories of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046857", "text": "From housing to highways, every community has its own unique set of goals, and the Trump Administration has made it a priority to not only learn from local leaders about their needs, but to also address those needs.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000046858", "text": "Good transportation infrastructure is vital to a growing economy and a better quality of life.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046859", "text": "Over 42, 000 jobs rely on trade with Mexico and Canada and this deal will allow for the creation of even more export-related jobs here in Pennsylvania.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046860", "text": "Over 30 Washington legislators wrote - Continued, uninterrupted trade with Canada and Mexico is vital to Washington State's economy and to the jobs that support thousands of our citizens and their families.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046861", "text": "Through aggressive investment and implementation of cutting edge technology, we have created a significant economic driver for our local and global economy.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046862", "text": "Our growers need free and fair trade and encourage the timely approval and implementation of the USMCA.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046863", "text": "To be able to continue trade with Canada and Mexico is vital to Oregon State's economy and to the jobs that support the tens of thousands of members in our county.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046864", "text": "America's small businesses greatly benefit from trade with Canada and Mexico, and the USITC report shows enhanced value and growth for our economy and all industry sectors under USMCA.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046865", "text": "And in that address, the President will give an update on the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046866", "text": "At its best, democracy protects human rights, promotes human dignity, and upholds the rule of law.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046867", "text": "So, even as we confront a global health crisis and an economic crisis, it is critical that we continue to defend democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046868", "text": "Because we know the status of democracy depends on our collective commitment to those values articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046869", "text": "Working together, these forces for good can ensure the welfare of children who have experienced the traumas of abuse or neglect and give them a promising future.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000046870", "text": "We are grateful to the professionals serving in healthcare, victim and human services, law enforcement, and criminal justice for their steadfast resolve against sexual assault while also caring for and supporting survivors.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000046871", "text": "In every major conflict in our Nation's history, American prisoners of war have stared down our enemies, knowing at any moment their captors might torture them yet again or even kill them.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046872", "text": "This extreme shortage poses a severe threat for our Nation's injured and those battling serious illnesses.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000046873", "text": "Tragically, Jewish men, women, and children continue to face anti-Semitic discrimination, persecution, and violence today, and Jewish institutions and places of worship remain targets of vandalism and destruction.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000046874", "text": "We must therefore vigorously confront anti-Semitic discrimination and violence against members of the Jewish community.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000046875", "text": "Providing an uninterrupted connection to essential mental health treatment and social support groups through telehealth technology can be lifesaving, especially for the more than 11 million American adults who struggle with serious mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or major depressive disorder.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046876", "text": "As our country defeats the coronavirus, sports will once again help unite us as a Nation.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000046877", "text": "In an effort to lower the cost of prescription drugs, the Food and Drug Administration has approved more generic drugs each year during my 3 years in office than any other year in the history of our country.", "issue": "Drug"}
{"id": "0000046878", "text": "Under my Administration, tribal governments are not alone in fighting the epidemic of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native people.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046879", "text": "Nationwide, in hospitals, clinics, and other treatment centers where Americans are suffering from the virus, these warriors have steadfastly provided remarkable care and vital assistance to patients.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000046880", "text": "Despite this, for decades the idea that all children can thrive under a one-size-fits-all approach to learning has defined American education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046881", "text": "The far-reaching and devastating scope of the coronavirus pandemic has increased the demands on our Nation's EMS professionals, including those from our military service branches.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046882", "text": "Our Nation's merchant mariners enable peaceful trade with countries around the world and provide vital sealift support to our Armed Forces.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046883", "text": "Recently, as our Nation has come together to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, our flag has been a reminder of the courage, tenacity, and loyalty that define the indomitable American spirit.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046884", "text": "Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare professionals have treated and cared for those sickened by the virus, and countless American patriots have provided critical goods and services to their fellow citizens in these uncertain times.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046885", "text": "But under the extraordinary circumstances of the economic contraction resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak, certain nonimmigrant visa programs authorizing such employment pose an unusual threat to the employment of American workers.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046886", "text": "Historically, when recovering from economic shocks that cause significant contractions in productivity, recoveries in employment lag behind improvements in economic activity.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046887", "text": "Despite the hardship caused by the pandemic, it has not encumbered the American spirit or the unyielding resolve of our Nation's workers.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046888", "text": "The rapid changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic have further revealed the critical need to invest in our workers to get our Nation back to work.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046889", "text": "Recently, authoritarian regimes have used the coronavirus pandemic to justify increased restrictions on individual human rights.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046890", "text": "The most notable example today is China, where the virus originated and government suppression led directly to this global pandemic.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000046891", "text": "At the same time, my Administration's historic investment in apprenticeship is paving new career pathways, and we are committed to ensuring that they are accessible to all, including youth and adults with disabilities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046892", "text": "Today, cancer is the leading cause of death from disease beyond infancy for our Nation's youth, and in 2020 alone, it is expected to take the lives of approximately 1, 200 children under 15 years of age.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046893", "text": "Further, the United States will use the best available ocean-related science and knowledge, in partnership with the science and technology communities, to inform decisions and enhance entrepreneurial opportunities.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046894", "text": "They serve in our military and protect us as members of law enforcement.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046895", "text": "Our national effort to fight violent crime will protect our Nation's children and bring violent criminals to justice.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000046896", "text": "In the fight against this disease, we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to provide Americans with the best possible treatments and medications to save lives.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046897", "text": "During National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we recognize the immeasurable contributions that Americans with disabilities make to our workforce.", "issue": "Disability"}
{"id": "0000046898", "text": "As our Nation continues its unprecedented fight against the coronavirus pandemic, we are acutely aware of how isolation affects mental health and can encourage the misuse of legal and illegal substances.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046899", "text": "While children are at a very low risk from the coronavirus itself, lockdowns and school closures pose significant risks to the health and wellbeing of our young people.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000046900", "text": "Throughout his time in the Continental Army, General Pulaski distinguished himself as a military leader of tactical brilliance and tremendous valor.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000046901", "text": "Americans have selflessly supported their neighbors in need, delivering food and essential supplies to the most vulnerable and evincing a deep capacity for generosity and caring.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000046902", "text": "Because of our continuing belief in the UN's promise and our desire to see it be effective over the next 75 years, we are determined to make the UN more agile, effective, efficient, transparent, and accountable.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000046903", "text": "While advances in technology have enhanced the safety, security, and comprehensive integration of our Nation's critical infrastructure, vulnerabilities still exist, particularly those that can be exploited by cyber adversaries.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046904", "text": "Our great veterans living with illness or injury are one of the largest groups who receive care from family members and friends.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000046905", "text": "We will never forget our veterans who are suffering from mental health issues or the military families that are left behind by veteran suicide.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000046906", "text": "Education empowers students of all ages to reach their full potential and plays a fundamental role in developing a strong workforce and informed citizenry.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000046907", "text": "The pandemic has placed great strain on American families, from those who have mourned the loss of a loved one to those who have struggled to adjust to new and burdensome daily routines.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046908", "text": "Enforcing our Nation's trade rules and ensuring a level playing field is critical to making trade work for American workers and businesses.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000046909", "text": "Later, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, their deep desire to practice their religion unfettered from government intrusion was realized.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000046910", "text": "Those jurisdictions' responses to the pandemic, their lack of transparency, and their lack of cooperation with the United States thus far in combatting the pandemic, cast doubt on their cooperation in implementing CDC's January 12, 2021, order.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046911", "text": "But building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000046912", "text": "The national emergency caused by the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States continues to pose a grave threat to our health and security.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000046913", "text": "In light of that history, I believe that maintaining the tariff is likely to be more effective in protecting our national security than the untested quota described in Proclamation 10139.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000046914", "text": "By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Tragically, heart disease continues to be a leading cause of death in the United States.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046915", "text": "During American Heart Month, we recommit to fighting this disease by promoting better health, wellness, and prevention awareness in our communities.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046916", "text": "Adults with heart conditions are also at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19, which makes it even more important to follow these suggestions.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000046917", "text": "Combatting heart disease is essential to improving public health in our Nation, and together we will renew our efforts to make all Americans aware of its signs and symptoms.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046918", "text": "A pandemic has further ripped a path of destruction through every community in America, but we see its acute devastation among Black Americans who are dying, losing jobs, and closing businesses at disproportionate rates in the dual crisis of the pandemic and the economy.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046919", "text": "The spiral of violent dating relationships can lead to depression, anxiety, drug and alcohol use, as well as suicidal thoughts.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000046920", "text": "Many young people do not report the abuse for fear of retribution or unwarranted embarrassment.", "issue": "retribution"}
{"id": "0000046921", "text": "And when our country faced a severe blood shortage, the American people rolled up their sleeves, with more than a half-million of our friends and neighbors donating blood with the Red Cross for the first time.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000046922", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted so many parts of our lives, including, for far too many, the routine checkups and screenings that are so vital to guarding against disease.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046923", "text": "Unfortunately, the pandemic has brought a wave of fraud in its wake, with scam artists serving up fake websites and advertisements targeting desperate Americans in search of personal protective equipment.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046924", "text": "Elderly Americans are also at risk of mistaking medications and ingesting household products; for seniors who are isolated due to the pandemic, it is particularly important to secure and clearly label medications and poisonous substances.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046925", "text": "Restaurants found creative ways to bring food to members of their communities.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000046926", "text": "These collective efforts helped get food to the millions of adults and children in America experiencing nutrition insecurity.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000046927", "text": "Yet for generations they have faced the harmful effects of systemic racism.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000046928", "text": "Transgender Americans continue to face discrimination in employment, housing, health care, and public accommodations.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000046929", "text": "The Financial Literacy and Education Commission, a 23-member body of Federal agencies, chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury, was created to coordinate and improve financial education for all Americans.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000046930", "text": "The pandemic has exacerbated the already harrowing challenges facing sexual assault survivors by making it more difficult or risky for them to seek help.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046931", "text": "We also recognize that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unique disruptions to, and placed new strains on, the lives of individuals with autism and their families.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046932", "text": "The American Rescue Plan includes a historic investment in AmeriCorps to make national service more accessible.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046933", "text": "We must also recognize the important role science and technology play in safeguarding our intellectual property.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046934", "text": "In order for us to safeguard the health, safety, and economic future of our Nation's people, we must also invest in our infrastructure more broadly.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046935", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis has impacted the mental health of millions of Americans.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046936", "text": "In 2019, nearly 52 million adults experienced some form of mental illness.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000046937", "text": "As we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever that we ensure equal access to sports and fitness activities for everyone.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046938", "text": "Education is the one field that makes all others possible.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000046939", "text": "Recently, we were again called to recognize that democracy is precious and fragile.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046940", "text": "Previous generations of Americans have lived through civil war, economic depressions, the rise of fascism, and world wars-and today, too many Americans continue to face pervasive racism, xenophobia, nativism, and other forms of intolerance.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000046941", "text": "The national emergency caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak in the United States continues to pose a grave threat to our health and security.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000046942", "text": "In fact, this year, millions of moms left the workforce or deferred their education in order to provide care.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046943", "text": "By bringing together people from different races, religions, and sexual orientations and melding them into a cohesive fighting force, our military embodies the promise of our democratic experiment.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046944", "text": "Our military has proven-time and time again-that the insistent pursuit of greater inclusion and equality makes us a more robust, more resilient, and more powerful Nation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046945", "text": "Modern and resilient infrastructure supporting reliable and affordable transportation options make the American Dream possible for all of us, regardless of geography, race, disability, or economic status.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046946", "text": "Our efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year have reinforced many public health lessons, including the importance of communication, community engagement, and a comprehensive testing strategy to reduce the spread of infection.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046947", "text": "Hepatitis D, which occurs only among individuals infected with hepatitis B, can also cause serious liver disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046948", "text": "Thanks to Federal investment in medical research, we have the technology and tools to provide safe and effective hepatitis vaccines and therapeutics that can reduce mortality and even lead to a cure.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000046949", "text": "Systemic racism has uniquely impacted Black and Latino immigrant communities, including Caribbean Americans, leading to disparities in health care, education, housing, criminal justice, and economic opportunity.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000046950", "text": "In collaboration with our international partners, my Administration will continue America's global leadership in ocean science, stewardship, and conservation.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000046951", "text": "Its prominence at civic landmarks and seats of public authority communicates the promise of democracy-that under this flag, the rule of law is supreme and the people reign.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046952", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated our need for greater manufacturing capacity in areas critical to public health, information and communications technology, and national defense.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046953", "text": "To build our economy back better, we must have an industrial strategy based on public investment in new technologies, including the domestic production of clean energy goods, critical medical supplies, and the innovative industries of the future.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046954", "text": "The armistice made possible the exchange of prisoners of war as well as an opportunity to negotiate a peaceful settlement.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046955", "text": "Training side-by-side with the Korean military, our Armed Forces abroad help keep the watch while proudly upholding the legacy of those serving before them.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000046956", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the longstanding inequities and biases that exist for people with disabilities; persistent discrimination and the inability to access services continues to threaten the health and well-being of far too many Americans.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000046957", "text": "Our Nation's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is stronger because of our health centers, and the tireless, dedicated health center employees who continue to deliver critical services such as COVID-19 testing, treatment, and prevention services on the front lines.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046958", "text": "I am also committed to doubling the Federal investment in community health centers to further expand access to care and make strides in our pursuit of health equity.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046959", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the overdose epidemic, as necessary pandemic restrictions made it harder for individuals with addiction to receive the treatment and support services they need.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046960", "text": "This effort requires significant investments in our health care infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046961", "text": "And despite ovarian cancer rates being highest among white women, Black women are more likely to die from this disease because of lack of access to health care, socioeconomic disparities, and other causes still under study.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046962", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an enormous toll on the lives of the American people, especially those struggling with substance use disorder.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046963", "text": "While many have continued on their path towards recovery, even while facing the additional physical, emotional, and economic hardships brought about by the pandemic, others have struggled.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046964", "text": "For Black women and girls, LGBTQ+ Black Americans, and Black Americans with disabilities-we see it compounded with other forms of discrimination and bias.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000046965", "text": "Increased rates of depression have sparked concern that we will see a further increase in suicide rates.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000046966", "text": "As we continue our fight against the virus, we are once again able to enjoy the in person warmth and care of our grandparents, and they can enjoy precious time with their children and grandchildren.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000046967", "text": "We pay tribute to our former prisoners of war and recommit to the difficult but essential task of seeking out answers for the families of those still missing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000046968", "text": "During the COVID-19 pandemic, hunting and fishing have been especially critical in providing a recreational reprieve for many Americans from the stressors of these difficult times.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046969", "text": "Any disruption, corruption, or dysfunction of our vital infrastructure can have a debilitating effect on national and economic security, public health, and our everyday safety.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046970", "text": "Therefore, the security of our critical infrastructure depends on Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial coordination with infrastructure owners and operators to achieve greater strength and security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046971", "text": "Additionally, one-third of young people in juvenile justice facilities have a disability, including many with emotional distress and learning disabilities.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000046972", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the importance of the National School Lunch Program for millions of children who rely on school meals.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046973", "text": "To help the millions of families who struggled to provide meals for their children during the pandemic, the American Rescue Plan provided additional emergency food and nutrition assistance for those in need.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046974", "text": "Today, General Pulaski's legacy and contributions to our democracy are honored by more than 9 million Polish-Americans in communities across our country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046975", "text": "Further, in recognition that the pandemic has harmed Indigenous peoples at an alarming and disproportionate rate, Native communities have led the way in connecting people with vaccination, boasting some of the highest rates of any racial or ethnic group.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000046976", "text": "Girls' education is further undermined by the threat of sexual assault, harassment, and other forms of gender-based violence, with 1-in-4 young women on college campuses today facing sexual assault.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046977", "text": "Girls with disabilities face inequitable access to education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046978", "text": "This funding is supporting special education, early intervention, and related services for children with disabilities and their families.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000046979", "text": "For thousands of years, humans have relied on forests for food, fuel, shelter, and medicine among other important uses.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000046980", "text": "The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 is a global threat to our health and safety.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000046981", "text": "But vaccination is the most important measure for reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission and for avoiding severe illness, hospitalization, and death.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000046982", "text": "I am committed to protecting our critical infrastructure and improving security and resilience efforts across the Nation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046983", "text": "Our agenda also contains the largest Federal investment in power transmission in our Nation's history, ensuring a more reliable grid that has the capability to carry more renewable energy.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000046984", "text": "A key dimension of the Nation's resilience is safeguarding our democracy, which requires securing our election infrastructure.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046985", "text": "The threats against our critical infrastructure are increasingly complex and nuanced, and we all must be prepared to better protect ourselves from malicious actors threatening our cyber and physical security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000046986", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has made it especially challenging for children in the foster care system.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046987", "text": "For more than 6 million Americans and the family members and friends who love them, Alzheimer's disease can be devastating.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000046988", "text": "This has been especially true throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, during which Americans of all ages have made substantial sacrifices to keep family members safe and healthy.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046989", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated preexisting inequities facing Tribal Nations.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046990", "text": "Even as they shouldered a disproportionate burden throughout the pandemic, Tribal Nations have been paragons of resilience, determination, and patriotism-implementing key mitigation strategies like testing and prioritizing the vaccination of Tribal communities at high rates in order to save lives.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000046991", "text": "Through Joining Forces, the White House initiative to support veteran and military families, caregivers, and survivors, my Administration is addressing military spouse employment and entrepreneurship, military child education, and family health and well-being.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000046992", "text": "Today, we reaffirm our commitment to the ideal that democracy-a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people-is how we best safeguard the rights, freedoms, and dignity that belong to every person.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046993", "text": "Not only is quality, equitable education the engine of innovation and the fuel of a thriving economy-it is also key to preserving our democracy and advancing American ideals.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046994", "text": "The national emergency caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak in the United States continues to pose a grave threat to our health and security.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000046995", "text": "Ending the HIV epidemic is within our reach, and we are committed to finishing this work.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000046996", "text": "Unfortunately, discrimination and violence are challenges that too many Americans still face in their own communities.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000046997", "text": "Though we have often struggled to live up to the promises they contain, 230 years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms remains at the center of our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000046998", "text": "We must confront the scourge of racism and white supremacy-a stain on our Nation-and give hate no safe harbor in America.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000046999", "text": "Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States, claiming the lives of more than 650, 000 people each year.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047000", "text": "Continuing the fight against cardiovascular disease is crucial to improving our Nation's public health.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047001", "text": "We will continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic with equity at the center of our response.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047002", "text": "The constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade is facing an unprecedented assault as States pass increasingly onerous restrictions to critical reproductive health care and bodily autonomy.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000047003", "text": "During National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, we raise awareness of this dreaded disease and renew our commitment to ending cancer as we know it.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047004", "text": "During National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, I urge every American to exercise vigilance around their own health and the health of their loved ones.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000047005", "text": "As our Nation recovers and our economy continues its historic growth following a global pandemic, it is important that consumers are fully informed about their rights and the potential risks in the marketplace.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047006", "text": "And I have raised the minimum wage for Federal contractors, which has significantly benefitted women-especially women of color-who are disproportionately represented in minimum-wage and low-wage jobs.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000047007", "text": "Despite this progress, transgender Americans continue to face discrimination, harassment, and barriers to opportunity.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047008", "text": "Reducing child poverty is critical to reducing the disproportional representation of low-income children and families-especially communities of color-in the child welfare system and foster care.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000047009", "text": "Despite our progress, our Nation continues to face a critical shortage of organ donors, and the number of people in need of a transplant is high, with 17 people dying every day while waiting for a transplant.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000047010", "text": "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 1 in 5 women in America experiences a rape or attempted rape, and nearly 44 percent of women and about 25 percent of all men experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000047011", "text": "However, many autistic individuals still experience gaps in employment and income.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000047012", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded these inequities, creating unique challenges and strains for people with autism and their families.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047013", "text": "By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation On April 9, 1942, tens of thousands of American and Filipino prisoners of war began what would become known to history as the Bataan Death March.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047014", "text": "Former prisoners of war stand among the bravest of our Nation.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047015", "text": "May God bless our former prisoners of war and their families, and may God protect our troops.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047016", "text": "During National Crime Victims' Rights Week, our Nation renews our commitment to providing survivors of crime the support they need to heal.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000047017", "text": "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our communities has put a spotlight on lingering inequities that we must continue to address head on.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047018", "text": "The impact of climate change and the increasing frequency and severity of natural hazard incidents-injuring people and damaging property and the environment-pose significant challenges for our infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047019", "text": "Even before the pandemic, millions of Americans were experiencing stress, trauma, anxiety, and heightened levels of depression.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047020", "text": "Despite these disturbing trends, less than half of Americans struggling with mental illness receive the treatment they need-even fewer within Black and Brown communities.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047021", "text": "During the pandemic, many seniors came out of retirement to serve their communities in health care and education roles, filling job vacancies in critical shortage areas.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047022", "text": "Already, more than 4, 000 projects have been announced to upgrade America's infrastructure, creating significant opportunities for small businesses to grow.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047023", "text": "On National Defense Transportation Day and during National Transportation Week, we recognize the importance of our Nation's infrastructure to our national and economic security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047024", "text": "These historic investments are funding crucial repairs to the infrastructure that our Nation relies on so heavily for interstate commerce and national security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047025", "text": "During World Trade Week, we highlight the importance of global trade and the role it plays in raising the quality of life of American families while strengthening our economy and our workforce.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000047026", "text": "Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are making crucial investments in our Nation's infrastructure, including in our ports, highways, roads, airports, and bridges, which American companies rely on to export goods.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047027", "text": "We are also using trade to rebuild our alliances and meet shared security challenges, which threaten our networks, our quality of life, and the strength of our democracies.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047028", "text": "Ukraine has expressed its willingness to work with the United States to address the global excess capacity for producing steel.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047029", "text": "At the same time, the steel industry has been historically important to Ukraine, and both the United States and Ukraine have an interest in maintaining that industry as an economic lifeline while the country recovers.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047030", "text": "Members of the LGBTQI+ community-especially people of color and trans people-continue to face discrimination and cruel, persistent efforts to undermine their human rights.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047031", "text": "And we must confront the disproportionate levels of poverty, homelessness, and unemployment in the LGBTQI+ community.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000047032", "text": "My budget also includes investments to address the critical shortage of affordable housing and provide first-generation down payment assistance to aspiring homeowners.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000047033", "text": "As we mark National Homeownership Month, we recognize the importance of housing for all Americans.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000047034", "text": "Electricity produced through solar energy is also critical to reducing our dependence on electricity produced by the burning of fossil fuels, which drives climate change.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047035", "text": "Old Glory has flown around the world in times of war and in times of peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047036", "text": "My Administration is committed to ensuring that higher education is equitable, accessible, and affordable for every student across the country.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047037", "text": "As a long-standing democracy, the United States carries a responsibility to show the world how representative governance delivers benefits for all people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047038", "text": "Today, defending democracy is more vital and more urgent than ever.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047039", "text": "As Russia relentlessly wages its brutal and unprovoked war against the people of Ukraine, our Nation has led a global response to hold Russia accountable and denounce its inhumanity and its contempt for international law.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047040", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis it caused, as well as Vladimir Putin's unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine, have underscored the importance of a strong and secure domestic industrial base.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047041", "text": "The pandemic has had an especially significant impact on the lives and independence of Americans with disabilities and has also been the cause of disability for many individuals.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047042", "text": "During my recent visit to the Republic of Korea, I paid tribute to those Korean troops who fought and sacrificed shoulder to-shoulder with Americans, along with our United Nations counterparts, to defend their country.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047043", "text": "Many more service members returned home with wounds of war, both visible and invisible.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047044", "text": "We will fight for pay equity, to end discrimination in the workplace, and to promote equitable access to good-paying jobs, particularly in sectors where women are underrepresented.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047045", "text": "As I said during my State of the Union Address, beating the opioid overdose epidemic is an urgent priority for the Nation and a key pillar of my Administration's Unity Agenda.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047046", "text": "Cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease for American children under the age of 15, and survivors often face physical, emotional, and cognitive challenges.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047047", "text": "The provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act will fulfil my promise to make prescription drugs more affordable for millions of Americans-many of whom are living with illnesses like cancer-by capping out-of-pocket prescription drug costs at $2, 000.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000047048", "text": "As I outlined in my State of the Union address this year, a key pillar of my Unity Agenda is beating the opioid epidemic.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047049", "text": "We also recognize that alcoholism remains one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States.", "issue": "alcoholism"}
{"id": "0000047050", "text": "Other survivors experience this disease more acutely-SCD can cause infections, strokes, and even organ failure.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047051", "text": "My Administration is helping HBCUs weather the pandemic and make tuition more affordable for their students to continue this legacy of excellence and inclusion.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047052", "text": "To bolster the impact of these programs, my Administration recently announced a record investment of $1.5 billion in annual funding to support State and local wildlife and habitat conservation efforts and outdoor recreation.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047053", "text": "We are working to ease the added threat the pandemic has posed to the disabled community and its support networks.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047054", "text": "That is why I made beating the opioid epidemic-our Nation's most deadly drug use crisis-a pillar of the bipartisan Unity Agenda that I unveiled in this year's State of the Union.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047055", "text": "It builds on our $60 million investment in Farm-to-School initiatives that benefit American farmers, connecting them to local schools which become reliable markets.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047056", "text": "We also made historic strides in slashing child poverty to its lowest rate on record by expanding the Child Tax Credit and through other actions.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000047057", "text": "These great democracies and highly capable partners will further fortify the most powerful defensive alliance in the history of the world and bolster our efforts to defend democracy and freedom everywhere.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047058", "text": "At home, we are championing equitable access to education, equal pay, and access to jobs and job training so that when girls grow up, they can choose their own path and lead the workforce of the future.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047059", "text": "We have committed to improving access to education and learning for 15 million girls and young women by 2025.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047060", "text": "The site also took advantage of existing infrastructure, such as the nearby rail system and highway, which remain important arteries through the Rocky Mountains.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047061", "text": "This history-and the history of segregation within the Army itself during World War II-is a critical component of the experience of visiting and understanding Camp Hale.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047062", "text": "When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, an overwhelming majority of United Nation member states sent a resounding message unequivocally condemning the war and Russia's policies of fear and coercion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047063", "text": "Just as the need for this institution was plain in the aftermath of World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, its power to stand for liberty over authoritarianism, sovereignty over imperialism, and peace over war remains as vital today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047064", "text": "When our critical infrastructure shows signs of wear, everyday Americans pay the price.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000047065", "text": "Securing our critical infrastructure also means tackling the climate crisis-an existential threat to our health care, food systems, water sources, and energy grid.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047066", "text": "Our efforts to bolster critical infrastructure extend beyond our own borders as well.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047067", "text": "At the same time, my Administration is fighting discrimination in the adoption process.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047068", "text": "Requiring risk-taking and daring, entrepreneurs faced additional challenges during the pandemic and the economic crisis that it created.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047069", "text": "My Administration's American Rescue plan made the largest-ever investment in Indian Country to help Tribal Nations combat the COVID-19 pandemic and to support Tribal economic recovery.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047070", "text": "To be a veteran or a service member is to have endured and survived challenges most Americans will never know.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000047071", "text": "At home, I am determined to ensure that democracy continues delivering for our people-making lives better in meaningful, concrete ways.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047072", "text": "A quality education has been a ticket to the middle class, and our public schools have been the centers of our communities-places to listen and learn from each other, united around our shared American ideals.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047073", "text": "The pandemic just made things worse.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047074", "text": "It will require constant care for our democracy, stubborn faith in this great experiment, and a commitment to stamping out discrimination in all forms.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047075", "text": "Heart disease has long been the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming nearly 700, 000 lives a year.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047076", "text": "We are using every avenue to confront racial discrimination in housing and in mortgage lending and to help build generational wealth in Black communities.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047077", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic made this even more obvious.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047078", "text": "As the Secretary explained in that report, Russia is among the major exporters of aluminum to the United States for domestic consumption.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000047079", "text": "While aluminum imports from Russia have declined from the volume in the Secretary's 2018 report, Russia remains the fifth largest source of imported aluminum in the United States, and the imports of aluminum from Russia have increased in both 2021 and 2022.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000047080", "text": "Russia continues its unjustified, unprovoked, unyielding, and unconscionable war against Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000047081", "text": "In addition, Russia's war against Ukraine has caused global energy prices to rise, causing direct harm to the United States aluminum industry.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047082", "text": "Any country that imposes a tariff of 200 percent or more on its imports of aluminum articles that are products of Russia may be exempt from the tariff imposed by this proclamation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000047083", "text": "When hurricanes make landfall and floodwaters rise, the Red Cross is ready to provide food, shelter, and emergency supplies.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000047084", "text": "The Lucy Gray Mountains, captured within the western border of the area, include incised drainages within rounded igneous boulder fields and isolated springs that support an important migration route for desert bighorn sheep.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000047085", "text": "This Greek Independence Day, as we mark 202 years of friendship between the modern Hellenic Republic and the United States, let us recommit to defending democracy together - - standing up for the rights, equality, and dignity of all people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047086", "text": "During the COVID-19 pandemic, many care workers were forced to put themselves and their families at risk, just to do their jobs.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047087", "text": "We have learned it is not a single disease but, in fact, over 200 different types of cancers caused by different genetic mutations.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047088", "text": "It can lead to depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other physical and emotional wounds.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000047089", "text": "We have also reformed how the military investigates and prosecutes sexual assault, sexual harassment, and related crimes, including by shifting authority from commanders to independent prosecutors.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047090", "text": "While the virus is not gone, we have made enormous progress, and it no longer controls our lives.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000047091", "text": "We have also made the biggest-ever investment in fighting the public health threat represented by the climate crisis.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047092", "text": "But his faith and a lifetime of study had already taught him that education is both the antidote to hate and the cornerstone of humanity as a whole.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047093", "text": "That is what education makes possible.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047094", "text": "Autistic people continue to face obstacles when seeking employment, health care, education, and housing, and the immense contributions of people with autism are often overlooked.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000047095", "text": "These brave patriots remind us of the grave costs of war and the sacrifice we ask of those who fight for us.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047096", "text": "These heroes-and other prisoners of war from every conflict throughout our history-stand among the bravest of our Nation, serving honorably under intolerable circumstances.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047097", "text": "May God bless our former prisoners of war and their families, caregivers, and survivors, and may God protect our troops.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047098", "text": "The United States has long faced a shortage of mental health providers.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000047099", "text": "To support democracy worldwide, I cohosted the second Summit for Democracy in March, bringing together government, civil society, and private sector representatives from around the world to promote transparent and accountable governance, democratic resilience, and respect for human rights.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000047100", "text": "As Americans, we are called to unequivocally condemn political violence and hate-motivated attacks; they have no place in our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047101", "text": "Our democracy has endured for generations because Americans have stood together to defend it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047102", "text": "Let us agree that upholding democracy must never be a partisan issue but rather an American issue.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047103", "text": "Today and this week, we celebrate the American workers who build our infrastructure, power our economy, bolster our national security, and are the backbone of this Nation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047104", "text": "We also recommit to investing in our Nation's infrastructure and strengthening critical supply chains.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047105", "text": "This can further spread the virus, delay treatment, and lead to serious liver disease-including cirrhosis, liver failure, liver cancer, and even death.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000047106", "text": "The pandemic made every American aware of the absolute courage and incredible sacrifices made by EMS providers nationwide.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047107", "text": "Global trade is a key part of making that dream a reality.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047108", "text": "We are working to increase trade with Kenya and Taiwan-two vibrant partners in critical parts of the world.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047109", "text": "By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation On Armed Forces Day, we honor all the members of our Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard, and National Guard and Reserve forces.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047110", "text": "They defended our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047111", "text": "At the same time, the steel industry has been historically important to Ukraine, and both the United States and Ukraine have an interest in maintaining that industry as an economic lifeline while the country recovers.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047112", "text": "We are taking additional steps to make housing more affordable.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000047113", "text": "The Fair Housing Act bans discrimination against renters or potential buyers on the basis of race, but studies show that many Americans are still denied equal treatment in the housing market.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047114", "text": "Whereas there exists a state of war between Germany and France; Poland; and the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047115", "text": "In these times when misguided forces throughout the world publicly declare their intent to destroy our democratic way of life, we affirm again our eternal hostility to tyranny and oppression wherever it exists.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000047116", "text": "The importance of American merchant seapower is underscored by our burgeoning trade, and the increasing demands for ocean transportation that result.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047117", "text": "The fostering of greater respect for the rule of law, and of deeper understanding of our great heritage of individual liberty, will immeasurably aid the United States in its war on crime and juvenile delinquency.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047118", "text": "That system has met every challenge, in war as in peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047119", "text": "Above all, the UN has proved to be a place where constructive dialogues between rich and poor nations can lead to better understanding in today's world, and the promise of a fuller life for future generations.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000047120", "text": "In two world wars and in Korea, brave Americans and their allies gave their lives that men might live and prosper in freedom.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047121", "text": "Advances in medical technology have extended man's capacities, freeing him from many of the limitations caused by disability.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047122", "text": "We no longer face the hostility of superstitious men convinced the world is flat.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000047123", "text": "Operating in partnership with the Federal Government, it has met every challenge of war and peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047124", "text": "World trade joins the United States with other nations in a creative partnership that supports the growth of our free enterprise economy and advances the well-being of all our citizens.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047125", "text": "U.S. ratification of a consular agreement with the U.S.S.R., our various trade missions to Eastern Europe, and our participation in the 1967 food processing fair in Moscow illustrate our effort to build bridges through trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047126", "text": "Government and private organizations have long worked to reduce the consequences of disability.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000047127", "text": "Again today, in a complex and bitter war, America's sons must fight in freedom's defense.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047128", "text": "One of the most vital contributions to the achievements of American agriculture has been understanding and cooperation between farm and city-an interdependence that has supported our National development.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000047129", "text": "Moreover, American agriculture now represents hope for cities and villages far beyond our shores, where the spectre of poverty threatens the stability-and even the peace-of the world.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000047130", "text": "While the Government of the United States must continue to play a key partnership role in the improvement and expansion of our transportation system, basic decisions on investment and operation are made by private industry.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047131", "text": "Almost a third of the deaths that occur among our infants under one year old are caused by a respiratory disease-often within the first 28 days of life.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047132", "text": "Now, perhaps more than ever, we realize how education can mean survival as we and people around the world face the deadly threat of AIDS.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047133", "text": "Because of the central role of the rule of law in preserving our freedom in this constitutional democracy, all Americans should concern themselves with improving the Nation's justice system.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047134", "text": "Within the Federal Government, the research assault on this disease is being led by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047135", "text": "This silent disease is the leading cause of bone fractures in postmenopausal women in particular, and in elderly persons in general.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047136", "text": "On July 14, 1789, the people of France stormed the despised Bastille prison in Paris, marking the beginning of their own struggle against tyranny.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000047137", "text": "When the communist army of North Korea invaded and attacked the Republic of Korea to the south, it was the beginning of an armed hostility that would eventually involve 21 nations and continue for more than 3 years.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000047138", "text": "In order to reclaim the territorial integrity of South Korea, a United Nations command was created with the United States serving as the executive agent.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047139", "text": "In addition to the early detection of illness, regular medical check-ups play an important role in disease prevention.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047140", "text": "This important Government agency, which has ably served the American people in war as well as peacetime, will observe its Bicentennial during the period of time beginning August 4, 1989, and ending August 4, 1990.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047141", "text": "Nevertheless, historically Black colleges and universities continue to make vital contributions to American education, adding to the diversity and caliber of academic institutions in the United States.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047142", "text": "George Washington, frustrated by the Congress' inability to provide for the Continental Army, echoed their concerns when he sharply noted that Influence is no government.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047143", "text": "The proceeds from such sales are used in our Nation's fight against crime and drug abuse.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047144", "text": "In the ultimate expression of that bravery, and in solidarity with the American colonists, Pulaski volunteered for the Continental Army and eventually became the leader of his own cavalry unit.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047145", "text": "Throughout the history of the United States, the free exercise of religion has contributed not only to the welfare of individual believers but also to the strength of our Nation.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000047146", "text": "Mental illness not only inhibits their ability to function normally in society, but also inflicts untold personal anguish upon them and their loved ones.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047147", "text": "Freqently the result of biological or chemical disorders in the brain, mental illness can affect anyone -- regardless of age, gender, race, or economic status.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047148", "text": "Of the millions of Americans who suffer from depression, well over half could benefit from proper treatment.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000047149", "text": "For their sake, for the sake of their families, and for the sake of our Nation's future, we must redouble our efforts in the war on substance abuse.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047150", "text": "Amidst the horrors of war and Nazi atrocities, Raoul Wallenberg represented the noble and decent conscience of humanity.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047151", "text": "They are rallying to join the war on drugs and the campaign for better schools.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047152", "text": "Domestic violence is a serious crime that tears at the fabric of the American family.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047153", "text": "Workers without adequate education or training will likely make up a larger share of the entrants into the work force.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047154", "text": "Whether defending freedom on the front lines of battle or participating in the daily workings of our democracy, Italian-Americans have clearly demonstrated their love of freedom and self-government and their profound respect for the rights and dignity of every individual.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047155", "text": "Scientists do know that Gaucher's disease results from a defective recessive gene.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047156", "text": "The Bill of Rights also guarantees anyone accused of a crime the right to a jury trial and defense counsel; the right to be informed of the charges against him; and protection against cruel or unusal punishment.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047157", "text": "Recent advances in technology and the study of deoxyribonucleic acid have the potential to yield still more reliable means of identifying--beyond a doubt--the perpetrators of criminal acts.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047158", "text": "The development of new technology and materials has helped bring about the production of safer fabrics and improved fire detection equipment.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047159", "text": "That great investment has been made possible by the generosity of the American public and the dedicated efforts of the Association's 2.7 million volunteers.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047160", "text": "His actions during the war reflected consummate skill as a military leader -- and unfailing confidence in the ideals enshrined in our Declaration of Independence.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047161", "text": "Washington, frustrated by the Congress's inability to provide for the Continental Army, voiced his concern when he sharply noted that influence is no government.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047162", "text": "Today farmers, ranchers, scientists, merchants, and government officials are working together to produce food and fiber for this Nation and for much of the rest of the world as well.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000047163", "text": "Our freedom and security have been won for us at a very high price -- a price borne bravely in tims of conflict and peril by members of the United States Armed Forces.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000047164", "text": "Those Americans who have suffered as prisoners of war know all too well the costs of battle.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047165", "text": "No training course or series of instructions, however, could ever prepare prisoners of war for the privation and suffering to which they were often exposed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047166", "text": "In violation of fundamental standards of morality and international codes and customs regarding the treatment of captured military personnel, many American prisoners of war were subjected to starvation, disease, and physical and psychological tortune.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047167", "text": "Nevertheless, our prisoners of war held firm in their belief in the promise of America and the freedom and justice to which this Nation is dedicated.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047168", "text": "On May 1, 1985, the President imposed an embargo on trade with Nicaragua, by Executive Order No. 12513 under the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, et seq ., and the National Emergencies Act, et seq.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047169", "text": "Today we no longer face the cruel test of world war, but we still do well to reflect upon the example provided by our mothers.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047170", "text": "From mid-April to early June of last year, millions of citizens of the People's Republic of China participated in massive demonstrations in scores of Chinese cities in a remarkable display of peaceful political activity.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047171", "text": "Efforts to strengthen America's transportation infrastructure will have many immediate and long-term benefits for the United States.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047172", "text": "Today, acknowledging its vital role in the Nation's economic development and defense, we remain firmly committed to progress in transportation technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047173", "text": "Today, the merchant marine continues to play a vital role in trade and defense.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047174", "text": "After World War II, the world was weary of war, and with an economic recovery in full bloom, many Americans gradually put the memory of the struggle for freedom in Korea behind them.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047175", "text": "Research may also prove valuable in our war on drugs, as studies provide greater insight into how people become addicted to drugs and how drugs affect the brain.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047176", "text": "Although it is easily treated when diagnosed early, Lyme disease can become very serious if it remains undetected.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047177", "text": "The disease is caused by a bacterial infection that is transmitted to humans by the bite of a very small tick.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047178", "text": "If left untreated, Lyme disease can seriously damage the nervous system, heart, joints, and skin.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047179", "text": "Throughout our Nation's history, the free exercise of religion has not only enriched the lives of individual believers but also strengthened the moral fabric of our society.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000047180", "text": "Pulaski volunteered for the Continental Army, where he eventually became leader of his own cavalry unit.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047181", "text": "Heirs to the rich historic and cultural legacy established in the land of Copernicus and Chopin, these Americans have shared with their fellow citizens a wealth of Polish music, art, craftsmanship, and folklore.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000047182", "text": "In many cases, advances in science and technology are bringing hope and healing where there once was only fear and loss.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047183", "text": "Between 1932 and 1933 the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, willfully permitted and even encouraged mass starvation in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047184", "text": "Ensuring a high-quality education for every American will depend on the personal commitment and sustained cooperation of all Americans -- parents, teachers, students, local school administrators, business leaders, and elected officials, as well as the general public.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047185", "text": "Each of us is accountable for the quality of American education, and each of us has a vital stake in its future.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047186", "text": "In his efforts to end legal segregation in America, Dr. King believed that achieving peace and goodwill among all peoples depends on obedience to the will of God and the affirmation of the sacredness of all human life.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000047187", "text": "And the prevalence of abortion on demand in America calls into question our respect for the fundamental right to life.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000047188", "text": "Although significant progress has been made in the struggle to overcome cardiovascular disease, we must not become complacent.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047189", "text": "That great investment has been made possible by the generosity of the American people and the dedicated efforts of more than 3 million volunteers.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047190", "text": "We also reaffirm our commitment to overcoming cardiovascular disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047191", "text": "A thorough examination by an eye care professional can lead to early detection of eye disease and allow time for successful treatment.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047192", "text": "With seafaring traditions strong in both countries, the Azores played a key role in facilitating trade and commerce, allowing for the provisioning of whaling vessels and other ships.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047193", "text": "More than the application of science and technology, medicine is a special calling, and those who have chosen this vocation in order to serve their fellowman understand the tremendous responsibility it entails.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047194", "text": "Vermont's dedication to freedom was also evident in its first constitution -- written in 1777, it forbade slavery and adopted universal male suffrage.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000047195", "text": "The 16 Vermont regiments dispatched to the Union Army during the Civil War represented the highest number of troops per capita of any State.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047196", "text": "The worldwide Lubavitch movement, under the leadership of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, has underscored the importance of moral education, as well as the primary role of parents and religious institutions in promoting high standards of personal character and conduct in our society.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047197", "text": "Thus, moral education in keeping with that heritage is one of the most important and enduring investments we can make in the future of our children and the Nation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047198", "text": "The Medal of Honor is a poignant reminder of the tremendous price that some Americans have been willing to pay to protect the lives and liberty of others.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000047199", "text": "Widely regarded as the cradle of democracy, Greece stands today as a strong ally of the United States, aligned with us by its commitment to freedom and human rights.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047200", "text": "The recent war in the Persian Gulf resulted in a great and historic victory for the United States and its coalition partners.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047201", "text": "During World War II, the Korean conflict, the Vietnam War, and other conflicts, many American prisoners of war were subjected to brutal treatment and torture by their captors in violation of fundamental standards of morality and international law.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047202", "text": "The founders of the Midnight Basketball program in Hyattsville, Maryland, countribute to the struggle against crime and delinquency by offering late-night sports activities and tutorial sessions for disadvantaged youngsters.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047203", "text": "Indeed, with the principal exception of Castro's Cuba, the nations of the Americas are experiencing a great resurgence of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047204", "text": "In the Nation's ongoing fight against crime, statistics tell only part of the story.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047205", "text": "Through public and private efforts at the national, State, and local level, we are making great strides in the fight against crime and in the effort to ensure fair, compassionate treatment of victims and their families.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047206", "text": "The crucible of war has once again tested our Nation's character, and it has shown us both the need for and the power of prayer.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047207", "text": "Advances in science and technology have enabled us to see how such behaviors as substance abuse and smoking can lead to low birth weights, disability, chronic illness, and early susceptibility to death among infants.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047208", "text": "International trade benefits all who participate.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047209", "text": "The war in the Persian Gulf has reminded all Americans of the value of freedom and the the price that many brave men and women have been willing to bear for its sake.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047210", "text": "In addition to their courageous, lifesaving efforts in the field, EMS personnel have made many important contributions to education and research in trauma care and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047211", "text": "The recent war in the Persian Gulf underscored both the importance and the effectiveness of America's transportation system.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047212", "text": "Thus, our observance of National Foster Care Month should renew our resolve to win the war against drugs.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047213", "text": "Six long years after the war first began, the Allies secured the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047214", "text": "The Federal Government and many private organizations throughout the United States are also working diligently to educate the public about AIDS and to discourage the behaviors that can put parents and their children at risk.", "issue": "educate"}
{"id": "0000047215", "text": "Because Lyme disease can pose a significant health threat, and because no completely reliable test for detection of the infection has been developed, prevention is very important.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047216", "text": "Now, after more than three decades, we can see that our faith has been well founded; our vigilance and resolve have borne fruit.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000047217", "text": "The Soviet Union has taken important steps toward democracy and openness.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047218", "text": "You will go down in history as the first army to fight under a flag of a world organization in the defense of human freedom ..", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000047219", "text": "These heroes and their fallen comrades not only helped to restore the freedom of South Korea but also won a decisive victory for the ideals of liberty and self-determination.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047220", "text": "The war could not have been fought without them, or its sacrifices endured.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047221", "text": "Our Nation's fight against cancer has advanced on many fronts, from education and prevention to diagnosis and treatment.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047222", "text": "While the 200th anniversary of our Bill of Rights has renewed our appreciation for the blessings of liberty, the war in the Persian Gulf has deepened our gratitude toward those who have died to win them.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047223", "text": "An experienced and highly skilled tactician, Count Pulaski was named a General in the Continental Army and was eventually given command of his own cavalry unit.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047224", "text": "Through riveting and often heartrending personal testimony, former American prisoners of war have helped us to appreciate more fully the courage and the sacrifices of those United States military personnel who have been captured by the enemy during periods of armed conflict.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047225", "text": "It also calls for the development of new technology for oil and gas exploration; increased use of alternative fuels; and aggressive conservation efforts.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047226", "text": "Ever since this country's earliest inhabitants hunted game and gathered food in their deep shade, America's forests have provided man with vital sustenance, as well as wood for fuel and shelter.", "issue": "sustenance"}
{"id": "0000047227", "text": "As was the case during Operation Desert Storm, members of the U.S. military have engaged in armed conflict only as a last resort, only to defend freedom and the rule of law.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047228", "text": "For example, many elderly Americans are vulnerable to depression and to other illnesses that can threaten their independence and security.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000047229", "text": "Left untreated, mental illness not only leads to lost productivity in school and in the workplace but also damages its victims' self-esteem and personal relationships.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047230", "text": "America has committed unprecedented energy and resources to the fight against crime -- and with promising results.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047231", "text": "Fortunately, many concerned Americans have already taken a stand to help prevent crime and to apprehend its perpetrators.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047232", "text": "Such voluntary grass-roots efforts are vital to winning the fight against crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047233", "text": "I also urge them to highlight the importance of education in helping citizens to become responsible consumers.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047234", "text": "During the crisis in the Gulf, the U.N. condemned Iraqi aggression and took necessary and proportional steps to ensure peace and security in the region.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000047235", "text": "If women are to benefit from advances in the diagnosis of breast cancer -- and if physicians are to succeed with early intervention and treatment -- then regular screenings for the disease are vital.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047236", "text": "We will continue to support education and disease prevention, as well as programs that target the specific health problems of the poor -- problems that are often aggravated by such factors as poor sanitation and the lack of safe drinking water.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047237", "text": "During the Spanish American War, women nurses waged a valiant battle against an epidemic of typhoid fever in Army camps.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047238", "text": "One of the greatest threats to fulfilling that potential, however, comes from Alzheimer's disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047239", "text": "Arthur Vandenberg, who after World War II played a crucial role in the development of our bipartisan foreign policy, the strategy of containment, and the establishment of NATO, also traced his roots to The Netherlands.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000047240", "text": "Family caregivers perform their various tasks freely and without compensation -- and often at considerable sacrifice to themselves.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000047241", "text": "Less than 24 hours later, after an impassioned address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Congress declared that a state of war existed between the United States and the Empire of Japan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047242", "text": "Half a century ago, every farm, factory, mine, and shipyard in the country bustled with activity directed toward the war effort.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000047243", "text": "Although it encompasses just 10 square miles, the District of Columbia contains a vast wealth of history and culture -- a legacy that befits our Nation's Capital.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000047244", "text": "Recent advances in science and technology have enabled us to engage in more effective studies of water pollution -- its causes and its effects.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047245", "text": "Urban and industrial growth are creating additional sources of pollution while placing increased demands on limited water resources.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000047246", "text": "Thus, those individuals who provide law enforcement training -- including continuing education for veteran personnel -- are part of a large, multidisciplinary team of professionals.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047247", "text": "Fewer than 20 years after the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, the prevalence of abortion on demand in the United States stands in stark contrast to our Nation's most deeply held values and beliefs.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000047248", "text": "Natural gas and oil extracted from the Gulf floor are vital sources of energy for our homes, farms, factories, and automobiles.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047249", "text": "However, while we have overcome the painful legacy of legal segregation in this country, we know that many challenges remain.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000047250", "text": "That investment has been made possible by the generosity of the American public and by the dedicated efforts of the Association's 3.5 million volunteers.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047251", "text": "Over the years, they have added to their ancient wealth of art and folklore a rich legacy of service and achievement.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000047252", "text": "Well recognizing the virtues of democracy, Irish-Americans organized effectively at the grass-roots level and greatly increased their voice in government during the early part of this century.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047253", "text": "Women have always played leading roles in American agriculture, however, and today they remain full working partners on our Nation's farms.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000047254", "text": "Today, democracy is no longer a nascent ideal, but a tried and proven form of government that continues to flourish around the world as hundreds of millions of people seek the blessings of freedom and self-government.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047255", "text": "A Community of Light would also offer its members decent housing in a safe, drug-free, and clean environment, as well as access to quality health care.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000047256", "text": "Thus, as we focus on excellence in American education, we must also recognize the importance of moral instruction.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047257", "text": "We cannot, therefore, overestimate the importance of education that fosters ethical and moral values in keeping with what our Founders called the laws of Nature and of Nature's God.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047258", "text": "Led by a private board of directors and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the NYSE offers an efficient market for the trading of securities, thereby facilitating the purchase and sale of stocks, options, futures, and other innovative financial contracts.", "issue": "trading"}
{"id": "0000047259", "text": "Although our transportation system has expanded dramatically since the colonial era, shipping remains a vital part of U.S. trade and commerce.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047260", "text": "The loss of these Americans -- indeed, the loss of any human life to war -- fills us with sorrow and with strengthened resolve to work for peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047261", "text": "Each Party shall administer all tariff and nontariff measures affecting trade in a manner which affords, with respect to both third country and domestic competitors, meaningful competitive opportunities for products and services of the other Party.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047262", "text": "The Parties affirm their desire to expand trade in products and services consistent with the terms of this Agreement.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047263", "text": "Such suspension is the result of my determination that Syria has not taken and is not taking steps to afford internationally recognized worker rights, as defined in section 502 of the 1974 Act.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000047264", "text": "If left undetected, however, Lyme disease can lead to chronic arthritis and to serious problems of the nervous system and heart.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047265", "text": "Federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control, along with numerous physicians and scientists in the private sector, are continuing the fight against Lyme disease.", "issue": "Disease"}
{"id": "0000047266", "text": "I also urge them to highlight the importance of education in helping citizens to become responsible consumers.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047267", "text": "Although most women who are treated for breast cancer in its early stages can be cured, this disease remains the second leading cause of death by cancer among American women.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047268", "text": "Hence, this month we recognize the importance of ensuring that every woman is informed about breast cancer and about the importance of screening, early detection, and treatment.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000047269", "text": "This comprehensive program will target the major causes of illness and death in older women, including breast cancer.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047270", "text": "As we Americans celebrate the collapse of imperial communism and the expansion of democracy around the world, we are especially grateful to the courageous United States military personnel who defended the cause of freedom in war.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047271", "text": "Through the eyewitness testimony of former American prisoners of war, we know that many were subjected to extreme deprivation and torture, in violation of fundamental standards of morality and in stark contravention of international agreements governing treatment of war pisoners.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047272", "text": "As our leading industry, agriculture has fueled America's strength and progress while, at the same time, making the United States the world's largest exporter of food products and its , ost generous provider of food aid.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000047273", "text": "As a result of such efficiency and productivity, we in the United States can purchase our food with a smaller percentage of our disposable income than citizens of any country.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000047274", "text": "The suffering experienced by persons with mental illness is tremendous, as their conditions may deprive them of the ability to lead full, independent, and productive lives.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047275", "text": "From the cars we drive to the utilities that heat and illuminate our homes, schools, and hospitals, we Americans depend on safe, reliable sources of energy for our personal mobility and comfort.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047276", "text": "At the same time, because it is vital to keeping our farms, factories, and defense systems functioning smoothly, we also depend on secure, reasonably priced energy for our economic productivity and national security.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047277", "text": "As a vital part of our planet's ecosystem, our forests provide food and habitat for a wide range of plants and animals.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000047278", "text": "Massive urban migration poses a special challenge to the international community today, as urbanization leads to increased demands for infrastructure and services while exacerbating problems such as crime, inadequate health care and pollution.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000047279", "text": "Shortly after World War II, the Women's Armed Services Integration Act authorized permanent status for women in the military, and since that time, women have continued to amass an impressive record of service and sacrifice.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047280", "text": "Throughout the course of the war, they performed admirably as executive officers, division heads, watch officers, coxswains, gunner's mates, and machinist's mates -- to name but a few of their important roles.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047281", "text": "This week we renew our commitment to achieving excellence in education -- school by school, community by community.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047282", "text": "While the United States leads the world in the development and use of sophisticated technology and materials, Americans continue to share a special appreciation of works made by hand.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047283", "text": "And finally, all five have already paid a price -- in depleted savings, lost careers, anguished families -- grossly disproportionate to any misdeeds or errors of judgment they may have committed.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000047284", "text": "Building such a force requires rigorous education and training, not only before an officer earns the badge, but also throughout his or her career.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047285", "text": "As law enforcement agencies employ increasingly sophisticated technology and techniques in the fight against crime, the need for highly specialized education and training continues to increase as well.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047286", "text": "But today, researchers studying heart and other cardiovascular diseases have made 2001 a year when science rivals fiction.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047287", "text": "Anna Warner Bailey's and Clara Barton's courage in war has inspired generations of men and women called upon to fight for America.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047288", "text": "During World War II and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, prisoners endured, in addition to separation from their loved ones, isolation, disease, and torture.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047289", "text": "Every day, Americans are making progress both in the fight against crime and in the effort to ensure fair and compassionate treatment of victims and their families.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047290", "text": "During times of war and natural disaster, Americans have provided relief to those in need.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047291", "text": "Government can rally a military, but it cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047292", "text": "This year's theme, The Many Faces of Aging, calls on us to recognize the richness and the promise of our rapidly increasing older population.", "issue": "richness"}
{"id": "0000047293", "text": "Trade also leads to more competitive businesses, more choices of goods for consumers, and lower prices.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000047294", "text": "Our commitment to open trade will be coupled with a commitment to protect our environment and improve labor standards.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047295", "text": "Democracy and freedom have taken root across the globe, and the United States will continue to stand for greater consolidation of pluralism and religious freedom, wider access to information, and respect for human rights and for the rule of law.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000047296", "text": "But as long as governments like those in Afghanistan, Burma, Cuba, Iraq, and Sudan exist, freedom is not accessible to all.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047297", "text": "Strong and transparent judicial systems and respect for human rights and the rule of law also serve as necessary foundations for democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047298", "text": "The sounds of war thundered as a furious struggle took place 51 years ago in a country unknown to many Americans.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047299", "text": "The battleground that was Korea in the years 1950 to 1953 tested the resolve, courage, and commitment of an America barely 5 years beyond the tremendous sacrifices of World War II.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047300", "text": "They immeasurably blessed the Republic of Korea and brought great honor to our Nation as a defender of freedom.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047301", "text": "Through the efforts of heroes like Martin Luther King, Jr., and other brave men and women of the civil rights movement, our Nation has made progress in battling racism and building a society that more fully lives up to its democratic ideals.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000047302", "text": "In many ways, agriculture ranks among the most crucial of our Nation's industries; and yet, its reliability and productivity are often taken for granted.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000047303", "text": "Progress is being made in developing technology that makes farm and ranch work safer.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047304", "text": "To help families, we must fight crime and violence in our schools and communities, and we must make a quality education available to all young people, regardless of background.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047305", "text": "The Continental Army benefited from the valor of Bernardo de Galvez, who led his frequently outnumbered troops to numerous victories against the British.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047306", "text": "The future of our hemisphere is closely tied to these relationships, and improving trade will play a vital role in building important links with our Hispanic neighbors.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047307", "text": "Our steadfast commitment to the health and welfare of our children is especially important for those who have special health care needs.", "issue": "health care"}
{"id": "0000047308", "text": "Recent medical successes allow us to say that the war on breast cancer will succeed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047309", "text": "General Frederick Wilhelm von Steuben helped train the Continental Army at Valley Forge; and General Nicholas Herkimer led German settlers in New York's Mohawk Valley in one of the war's bloodiest battles.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047310", "text": "And, we are working closely with our Nordic Allies in NATO by helping to provide for the region's common defense and stability.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000047311", "text": "We are waging a war against terrorists who have hijacked their own peaceful religion in an attempt to justify their evil deeds.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047312", "text": "The manner in which we face these and other challenges in this war will continue to influence our country for generations to come.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047313", "text": "Through the efforts of families, law enforcement officers, healthcare professionals, teachers, and dedicated community activists, we have made progress in the ongoing war against substance abuse.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047314", "text": "Although the survival rate for those diagnosed with prostate cancer continues to rise, this disease nevertheless remains a serious threat to the health and well-being of all American men.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047315", "text": "Like the fall of the Berlin Wall and the defeat of totalitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, freedom will triumph in this war against terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047316", "text": "The American agricultural industry is the leading global provider of food.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000047317", "text": "For example, recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television set for three hours.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047318", "text": "Now, in the painful aftermath of the September 11 attacks and in the midst of our resolute war on terrorism, President Eisenhower's hopeful words point us to our collective obligation to defend the enduring principles of freedom that form the foundation of our Republic.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047319", "text": "And decades later, with the Nation embroiled in a bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln revived what is now an annual tradition of issuing a presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047320", "text": "During the past century, we have made significant progress in our fight against disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047321", "text": "This focus on the patient's quality of life during his or her last illness can make the best of the most challenging of situations.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047322", "text": "China has accepted these terms and conditions and became a WTO member on December 11, 2001.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047323", "text": "Preserving religious freedom has helped America avoid the wars of religion that have plagued so many cultures throughout history, with deadly consequences.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000047324", "text": "Despite these advances, cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke, remains the leading cause of death in the United States and greatly increases disability among Americans.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047325", "text": "This year, cardiovascular disease will be the primary or contributing cause in about 60 percent of all deaths and will cost our Nation more than $330 billion in lost wages, diminished productivity, and medical expenses.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047326", "text": "It is a little known fact that heart disease is the leading cause of death among women, with over 370, 000 deaths every year.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047327", "text": "Advances in computer technology have enabled the more efficient use of information, which has benefitted society as a whole and individual consumers in particular.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047328", "text": "While vigorous law enforcement is vital to preventing the misuse of personal information, consumer education is the first line of defense against this kind of fraud and deception.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047329", "text": "George Washington's Continental Army had over 20 generals of Irish descent.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047330", "text": "In the United States, musculoskeletal disorders are a leading cause of physical disability.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000047331", "text": "Education has always played a vital role in the success of our Nation.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000047332", "text": "Along with the members of our worldwide coalition, including Greece, we are committed to defeating terrorism and protecting liberty.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047333", "text": "This year, as we remember our former prisoners of war , we also mark the 60th anniversary of the Bataan Death March.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047334", "text": "In addition to the tragic consequences of drug use for Americans and their families, the drug trade supports terrorist networks that threaten our country and our allies around the world.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047335", "text": "When we fight the war on drugs, we also fight the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047336", "text": "In addition to promoting the right decisions about drugs, D.A.R.E. helps build relationships among parents, teachers, law enforcement officers, and others interested in preventing drug use in their communities.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000047337", "text": "In war He directed the sword, and in peace He has ruled in our councils.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047338", "text": "My Administration has made the fight against crime a top priority.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047339", "text": "Americans pledged to fight terrorism, both here and across the globe.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047340", "text": "Throughout our history, America's military has heroically defended our country and its founding principles of freedom and democracy.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047341", "text": "Today, we have troops fighting overseas to defeat terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047342", "text": "The members of our military exemplify the true spirit of patriotism - a love of country expressed through a commitment to serve our Nation and defend our freedom.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047343", "text": "Trade plays a vital role in encouraging prosperity and improving the lives of people around the world.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000047344", "text": "During World Trade Week, we recognize the importance of trade to building a brighter future for our Nation and for countries throughout the world.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000047345", "text": "As the world's largest exporter, the United States is a leader in promoting free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047346", "text": "Free trade and open markets benefit businesses, employees, and consumers by creating a competitive environment with greater choice and lower prices.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047347", "text": "These memories remind us that the cost of war and the price of peace are great.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047348", "text": "As we engage in the war against terrorism, we also pray for peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047349", "text": "Some governments, such as those in North Korea, Iraq, and Iran, starve their people, take away their voices, traffic in terror, and threaten the world with weapons of mass destruction.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047350", "text": "In Korea and Vietnam, Airborne soldiers played a critical combat role, as well as in later conflicts and peacekeeping operations, including Panama, Grenada, Desert Storm, Haiti, Somalia, and the Balkans.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047351", "text": "Most recently, Airborne forces were vital to liberating the people of Afghanistan from the repressive and violent Taliban regime; and these soldiers continue to serve proudly around the world in the global coalition against terrorism.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047352", "text": "Our coalition has liberated Afghanistan and restored fundamental human rights and freedoms to Afghan women, and all the people of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047353", "text": "And our Armed Forces have pursued the war against terrorism in Afghanistan and elsewhere with valor and skill.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047354", "text": "This generous new law will strengthen American agriculture and support our farmers through difficult times, without encouraging overproduction and depressing prices.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000047355", "text": "Americans must also act to fight crime and drugs, and provide a safe and healthy environment for our children.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047356", "text": "That inspiration and solidarity is mirrored today as we engage in a war against terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047357", "text": "This fundamentally important investment has ensured that 165 million citizens now benefit from modern sewage treatment, up from 86 million in 1968.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047358", "text": "The U.N. also seeks to improve living conditions around the globe by immunizing children, providing safe drinking water, and fighting disease.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000047359", "text": "The United States recognizes the U.N. for its efforts to support and strengthen the international coalition against global terror.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000047360", "text": "As a founding member of the U.N., the United States reaffirms our dedication to this vital organization and our hope that it will continue to fulfill the vision of its founders.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000047361", "text": "I have decided to designate Afghanistan as a beneficiary developing country for purposes of the GSP.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047362", "text": "Since that time, the United States has built a strong friendship with Korea - a friendship based on our common commitment to human dignity, prosperity, and democracy.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047363", "text": "Governors Island was managed by the United States Army and the United States Coast Guard for nearly 200 years, but is no longer required for defense or Coast Guard purposes.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047364", "text": "Many faced significant obstacles, including discrimination and poverty.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047365", "text": "More than 56, 000 people may die from this disease, making it a leading cause of cancer death in our Nation.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047366", "text": "By working together to increase awareness and supporting research about this disease, we can make a difference in the lives of our citizens and people around the world.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047367", "text": "To protect against disease, Americans can make smart choices that will lead to longer, healthier lives.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047368", "text": "Our Nation's investment in cancer prevention and research is making a difference, and recent medical discoveries offer hope to many Americans.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047369", "text": "Through the Gift of Life Donation Initiative, my Administration is working to educate our Nation about the importance of becoming a donor.", "issue": "educate"}
{"id": "0000047370", "text": "Crime brings trauma, pain, and insecurity into the lives of too many Americans each year.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000047371", "text": "America's former prisoners of war are national heroes whose service to our country will never be forgotten.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047372", "text": "On Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., 2003, we renew our commitment to providing quality education and to teaching our children the values that prepare them for lives as good neighbors and citizens.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000047373", "text": "Over the last 2 years, my Administration has taken significant action to transform public education in America.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047374", "text": "The Rebbe believed that education is critical in cultivating the moral character of students.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047375", "text": "In the Western Hemisphere, we share common commitments to overcoming poverty, achieving peace and prosperity for all, and providing safety in our hemisphere.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000047376", "text": "The 2004 budget request for HUD includes $50 million for fair housing--a 9 percent increase over 2003 funding--with a substantial portion specifically allocated for increased education and outreach efforts.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000047377", "text": "In times of war, our transportation system also moves troops and carries defense cargo efficiently.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047378", "text": "In America, trade is also critical to maintaining our economic competitiveness in the global market.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047379", "text": "This week, we recognize the importance of free trade in promoting prosperity and freedom in the United States and around the world.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047380", "text": "Creating an environment that instills important values, builds strong character, and provides sound education for our children is a vital national priority.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047381", "text": "Thanks in large measure to the veterans of the Korean War, South Korea today stands as a shining example of the economic and social benefits of democracy.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047382", "text": "We pledge to work with the Republic of Korea to further our shared values of democracy, human rights, and free enterprise.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047383", "text": "This investment will lead to a better understanding of ovarian cancer and greater hope for women who suffer from this disease.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047384", "text": "Through education and continued research, we can win the fight against ovarian cancer and save the lives of thousands of American women.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047385", "text": "As members of America's Armed Forces now protect our country by engaging the enemies of freedom in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and on other fronts in the war against terrorism, they carry on a noble legacy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047386", "text": "After receiving notice of her son's death in aerial combat during World War I, Grace Darling Seibold devoted her energy to volunteering in a local hospital.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047387", "text": "We have made considerable progress in diagnosing this disease and improving treatments, but we have not ended it.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047388", "text": "Diabetes can lead to severe complications, including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047389", "text": "By raising awareness in our communities and providing assistance to those battling the disease, we are fighting diabetes.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047390", "text": "And time after time, in conflicts across the globe, they have proven that democracy is mightier than tyranny.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047391", "text": "From World War I and World War II, to the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, to the recent battles in the war on terror, our military has built a great tradition of courageous and faithful service.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047392", "text": "With the help of our friends and allies, the brave men and women of our Armed Forces are now engaged in a global war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047393", "text": "Protecting our religious freedom requires the vigilance of the American people and of government at all levels.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000047394", "text": "Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047395", "text": "We have made significant advances in reducing crime in our communities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047396", "text": "In recent years, VOCA has begun addressing issues such as cybercrime, identity theft, hate violence, and stalking.", "issue": "cybercrime"}
{"id": "0000047397", "text": "While our Nation works to prevent terrorist activities, we also continue to wage a war against other crimes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047398", "text": "In fighting violent crime, we battle the problems of drug abuse, gun violence, and other threats to our safety.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047399", "text": "During World Trade Week, we celebrate the benefits trade brings to our citizens, our economy, and to countries and people around the world.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000047400", "text": "During times of war, our flag has rallied our citizens to defend the blessings of liberty at home and abroad.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047401", "text": "Today, as our brave men and women in uniform fight terrorism and advance freedom, the flag inspires patriotism and pride across our Nation and around the world.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047402", "text": "From the profound spirituality of African indigenous faith that influenced gospel, through the development of blues and jazz, to the emergence of rhythm and blues and rock and roll, we hear the richness of the African-American experience, past and present.", "issue": "richness"}
{"id": "0000047403", "text": "More than a year ago, American service members and our coalition partners freed the Iraqi people from a dictatorship that routinely tortured and executed innocent civilians.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000047404", "text": "Since September 11th, America has fought a relentless war on terror around the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047405", "text": "We are staying on the offensive in this war - striking the terrorists abroad so we do not have to face them here at home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047406", "text": "In order to defeat this pandemic, we also must discover new treatments and cures.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047407", "text": "By continuing to raise public awareness about this deadly disease, we can help all our citizens lead healthier lives.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047408", "text": "As the war drew to a close, Americans remained united in support of the vital cause of restoring the liberty of mankind.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047409", "text": "In the following months, the war in the Pacific was won and a grateful Nation began welcoming home liberty's heroes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047410", "text": "During Captive Nations Week, we reaffirm our commitment to advancing democracy, defending liberty, and protecting human rights around the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047411", "text": "To ensure that no child with a disability is left behind, I have requested $11.1 billion for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in my FY 2006 budget - $4.7 billion above the FY 2001 level.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000047412", "text": "One of the most important ways to ensure a successful future is through education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047413", "text": "During this month, we also reaffirm our commitment to victims of this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047414", "text": "They fought and won a world war against two of the most ruthless regimes the world has ever known.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047415", "text": "More than 70 million Americans live with some form of heart disease, and this disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047416", "text": "All Americans can improve their heart health and live longer, better lives by taking an active role in their health care decisions and consulting their physician for the latest information.", "issue": "health care"}
{"id": "0000047417", "text": "During National Consumer Protection Week, we highlight the importance of consumer education in the ongoing fight against fraud and encourage consumers to make wise decisions.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047418", "text": "Individuals can reduce the risk of developing the disease by avoiding tobacco and excessive alcohol and by making healthy lifestyle choices.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047419", "text": "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000047420", "text": "CAFTA-DR will also advance our commitment to democracy and prosperity for our neighbors.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047421", "text": "An important opportunity to deliver the full benefits of trade to people around the world is the Doha Round of trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000047422", "text": "In addition, the commitment of parents to the welfare of young people strengthens families and communities throughout our great country.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000047423", "text": "In countries like Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Burma, Syria, Zimbabwe, and Cuba, governments must become accountable to their citizens and embrace democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047424", "text": "Today, America is fighting a war that is testing our Nation's resolve.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047425", "text": "Citizens of Hispanic descent have fought in every war since our founding and have taken their rightful place as heroes in our Nation's history.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047426", "text": "Gold Star Mothers have long borne the hardships of war with dignity and devotion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047427", "text": "On World AIDS Day, we underscore our commitment to fight the AIDS pandemic with compassion and decisive action.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047428", "text": "Pursuant to section 507 of the 1974 Act, I have determined that Afghanistan should be designated as a member of SAARC for purposes of the GSP on the date that it becomes a SAARC member.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047429", "text": "Afghanistan is designated as a member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation for purposes of the GSP on the date that it becomes a SAARC member.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047430", "text": "Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives each year.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047431", "text": "During American Heart Month, we renew our commitment to fighting cardiovascular disease by increasing public awareness of this deadly disease and understanding of how it can be prevented.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047432", "text": "During the Revolutionary War, Washington's small band of hungry soldiers faced the professional army of a great empire, and his unshakable vision for a new democracy proved a powerful inspiration to his troops.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000047433", "text": "These agreements facilitate the flow of trade and help establish market economies.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047434", "text": "Our Nation benefits from the oceans that contain precious natural treasures, carry much of our trade, and provide us with food and recreational opportunities.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047435", "text": "Until we find a cure for breast cancer, we will continue our Nation's fight against this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047436", "text": "Diabetes is a chronic illness that leaves the body unable to produce or properly use insulin to maintain healthy blood glucose levels.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047437", "text": "King's faith in the Almighty gave him the courage to confront discrimination and segregation, and he preached that all the powers of evil are ultimately no match for even one individual armed with eternal truths.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047438", "text": "On Peace Officers' Memorial Day and during Police Week, we honor these brave public servants who fight crime, violence, and terrorism, and we pay homage to the heroes who have fallen in the line of duty.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047439", "text": "Free and fair trade helps reinforce our Nation's commitments to democracy, transparency, and the rule of law.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047440", "text": "This week and throughout the year, we recognize the importance of trade in promoting prosperity and freedom in the United States and around the world.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047441", "text": "During Captive Nations Week, we underscore our commitment to advancing democracy, defending liberty, and protecting human rights around the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047442", "text": "To bring that day about, we must support young democracies in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047443", "text": "We are confronting terrorism by advancing freedom, liberty, and prosperity as an alternative to the ideologies of hatred and repression.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047444", "text": "This month, we honor those currently battling the disease and all who have survived the fight against breast cancer.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047445", "text": "Certain risk factors can lead to heart disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047446", "text": "During National Crime Victims' Rights Week, we honor crime victims by pledging to fight crime wherever it exists.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000047447", "text": "An effective approach to fighting crime must include programs that make sense and work.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047448", "text": "Despite these achievements, 46 years since the passage of the Equal Pay Act and 233 years since our Nation was established with the principle of equal justice under law, women across America continue to experience discrimination in the form of pay inequity every day.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047449", "text": "In addition, imports can support employment for retailers, distributors, the transportation sector, and domestic manufacturers which rely on global supply chains to make products for both the U.S. and international markets.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000047450", "text": "We must ensure that the benefits of trade are spread more widely.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047451", "text": "When trade agreements are negotiated in consultation with the American people, the benefits of trade can be understood more broadly.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047452", "text": "On Memorial Day, we honor those who have paid the ultimate price in defense of these freedoms.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000047453", "text": "It has seen our Nation through war and peace, triumph and tragedy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047454", "text": "Signed into law on July 26, 1990, this landmark legislation established a clear mandate against discrimination on the basis of disability so that people with disabilities would have an equal opportunity to achieve the American Dream.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047455", "text": "The threat of terrorism has denied too many men, women, and children their right to live in peace and security.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047456", "text": "Unthinkable acts of terrorism brought tragedy, destruction, pain, and loss for people across our Nation and the world.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047457", "text": "Members of our Guard and Reserve serve with honor at home and in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other regions around the world, and they are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047458", "text": "Today, we also remember the families of our prisoners of war and those missing in action and honor the sacrifices they have made.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047459", "text": "By raising awareness of this disease and supporting research, we can usher in a new era in our struggle against breast cancer.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047460", "text": "Fair access to employment is a fundamental right of every American, including the 54 million people in this country living with disabilities.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000047461", "text": "My Administration is committed to treating our digital infrastructure as a strategic national asset.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047462", "text": "Since the 1994 passage of the landmark Violence Against Women Act, championed by then Senator Joe Biden, our Nation has strengthened its response to this crime and increased services for victims.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047463", "text": "Innovation in energy technology will decrease our oil use, strengthen our economy, and reduce the dangerous pollution that causes climate change.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047464", "text": "The Federal Government is the largest consumer of energy in the United States, and my Administration is committed to leading by example in the use of clean energy and increased energy efficiency.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047465", "text": "My Administration has made children's health a priority, and I was proud to sign the reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program , extending health care to millions of young Americans who were previously uninsured.", "issue": "health care"}
{"id": "0000047466", "text": "The U.N. is vital to America's efforts to create a better, safer world.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000047467", "text": "The member states of the U.N. have an obligation to demonstrate the will and leadership to match the aspirations of all.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000047468", "text": "Every day, millions of American families experience the difficult reality of Alzheimer's disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047469", "text": "As we seek hope for families struggling with Alzheimer's disease, we must leave no avenue unexplored.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047470", "text": "While diabetes is a complex and challenging disease, dedicated researchers continue to make important discoveries.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047471", "text": "Over the past three decades, brave men and women have fought devastating discrimination, stigma, doubt, and violence as they stood in the face of this deadly disease.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047472", "text": "In the United States, Americans with disabilities still experience discrimination in the workplace and in their communities.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047473", "text": "Japanese airplanes had launched an unprovoked assault on our military with immense firepower, and our service members valiantly answered the call.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047474", "text": "Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047475", "text": "During American Heart Month, we rededicate ourselves to fighting this disease by improving our own heart-healthy habits, and by raising awareness in our homes and our communities.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047476", "text": "Because obesity is a leading risk factor for heart disease, good nutrition and physical activity are crucial for all our families.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047477", "text": "Though they faced poverty and discrimination, these immigrants transformed our cities, served in our Armed Forces, and settled the frontiers of our young Nation.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000047478", "text": "While government must ensure that all our children receive a world-class education, parents and caregivers play a crucial role in preparing them-especially during early childhood.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047479", "text": "From verbal harassment and intimidation to molestation and rape, this crime occurs far too frequently, goes unreported far too often, and leaves long-lasting physical and emotional scars.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047480", "text": "While any person or community may experience crime, some groups are disproportionately affected.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047481", "text": "Beyond violent crime and property crime, we must also fight white-collar crime and protect its victims, including those recovering from financial fraud.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047482", "text": "Today, we renew our commitment to end wage discrimination and celebrate the strength and vibrancy women add to our economy.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047483", "text": "Too many families are struggling to pay their bills or put food on the table, and this challenge should not be exacerbated by discrimination.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000047484", "text": "Today, many Asian American and Pacific Islander families experience unemployment and poverty, as well as significant education and health disparities.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000047485", "text": "During National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week, we reaffirm the importance of an advanced transportation infrastructure to our Nation's economy and security, and we thank the dedicated men and women who build and maintain it.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047486", "text": "Serving as an economic anchor in many low-income and economically struggling communities, community health centers are an integral source of local employment and economic growth.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000047487", "text": "Unemployment neared 20 percent, and millions of Americans struggled to provide for themselves and their families.", "issue": "Unemployment"}
{"id": "0000047488", "text": "Women hold only 27 percent of jobs in science and engineering, which are critical to our economic growth in a 21st-century economy.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047489", "text": "The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first bill I signed as President, restored basic protections against pay discrimination for women, and to build upon that law, I support passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047490", "text": "While we have made great strides in the battle against ovarian cancer, this disease continues to claim more lives than any other gynecologic cancer.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047491", "text": "During National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and throughout the year, I commend all the brave women fighting this disease, their families and friends, and the health care providers, researchers, and advocates working to reduce this disease's impact on our Nation.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047492", "text": "In a long line of heroes stretching from the greens of Lexington and Concord to the mountains of Afghanistan, selfless patriots have defended our lives and liberties with valor and honor.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047493", "text": "America's digital infrastructure is critical to laying the foundation for our economic prosperity, government efficiency, and national security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047494", "text": "As Americans, we understand employment and economic security are critical to fulfilling our hopes and aspirations.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000047495", "text": "In the last three decades, childhood obesity rates have tripled, and this epidemic threatens many young Americans, leaving them at risk for severe and chronic health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047496", "text": "Upon arrival in the United States, the Italian American community faced racial, social, and religious discrimination.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047497", "text": "Alzheimer's disease tragically robs individuals of their memories and leads to progressive mental and physical impairments.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047498", "text": "This eventually fatal disease represents a serious and growing threat to the health of our Nation, impacting millions of Americans and their families.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047499", "text": "As we continue our fight against Alzheimer's disease, we must seek new ways to prevent, delay, and treat this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047500", "text": "Caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease is a full-time, non-stop job, and this month, we also honor the compassionate caregivers and medical professionals who provide endless comfort and attention to those facing Alzheimer's disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047501", "text": "On World Freedom Day, we rededicate ourselves to supporting democracy and the rule of law, to strengthening civil society, and to promoting the free exchange of information around the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047502", "text": "Rising interest in local and regional food highlights farmers' contributions in connecting urban, suburban, and rural areas.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000047503", "text": "Today, we are experiencing a domestic HIV epidemic that demands our attention and leadership.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047504", "text": "Last year, as the world prepared for a pandemic of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, we were reminded of the severity and unpredictability of this serious disease.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000047505", "text": "Stalking is a serious and pervasive crime that affects millions of Americans each year in communities throughout our country.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047506", "text": "Heart disease is a staggering health problem and a leading cause of death for American women and men.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047507", "text": "In a time when one in three adults in the United States is living with some form of cardiovascular disease, American Heart Month provides an important reminder that it is never too early to take action to improve our heart health.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047508", "text": "To save lives in the fight against cardiovascular disease, my Administration is investing in world-class research to prevent and treat this and other chronic diseases.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047509", "text": "These brave Americans gave their energy, their spirit, and sometimes their lives for the noble cause of liberty.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047510", "text": "My Administration is making unprecedented investments in education and is working to expand opportunities for women and girls in the STEM fields critical for growth in the 21st-century economy.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047511", "text": "Consumer education is vital to protecting American families and preserving economic health in the United States.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047512", "text": "Our Nation must continue to confront rape and other forms of sexual violence as a deplorable crime.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000047513", "text": "Nearly one in six American women will experience an attempted or completed rape at some point in her life, and for some groups, rates of sexual violence are even higher.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000047514", "text": "Though we have made great strides, wage discrimination is real and women are still more likely to live in poverty.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047515", "text": "These were the first shots of a civil war that would stretch across 4 years of tremendous sacrifice, with over 3 million Americans serving in battles whose names reach across our history.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047516", "text": "While our changing climate requires international leadership, global action on clean energy and climate change must be joined with local action.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047517", "text": "Although many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have achieved success, far too many still struggle to overcome obstacles of unemployment, poverty, and language barriers or face significant education, economic, and health disparities.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000047518", "text": "And let us ask God for the sustenance and guidance for all of us to meet the great challenges we face as a Nation.", "issue": "sustenance"}
{"id": "0000047519", "text": "In the past, insurance companies have effectively considered being a woman a pre-existing condition, and the specific medical needs of women meant higher fees and less coverage.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000047520", "text": "However, government cannot take on this disease alone.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047521", "text": "We must make sure that this silent epidemic does not go unnoticed by health professionals or by communities across our country.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047522", "text": "Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being , the most comprehensive report in 50 years on the status of women in our country, shedding light on issues women face in employment, crime, health, and family life", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000047523", "text": "This technology is critical to improving patient care, enabling coordination between providers and patients, reducing the risk of dangerous drug interactions, and helping patients access prevention and disease management services.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047524", "text": "A longtime advocate of tolerance, Rockwell was criticized by some for a painting now hanging steps from the Oval Office- The Problem We All Live With.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000047525", "text": "It is a well-rounded education for our children that will fuel our efforts to lead in a new economy where critical and creative thinking will be the keys to success.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047526", "text": "The vast majority of our critical information infrastructure is owned and operated by businesses and enterprises across America.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047527", "text": "As global demand for energy grows, the United States must take bold action to create a more secure energy future and build a competitive 21st-century clean energy economy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047528", "text": "In 1945, 51 nations in a world shaken by war signed the Charter of the United Nations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047529", "text": "Built out of the ashes of war and genocide, the United Nations emerged as a vehicle for human progress.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047530", "text": "For millions of Americans, the heartbreak of watching a loved one struggle with Alzheimer's disease is a pain they know all too well.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047531", "text": "Alzheimer's disease burdens an increasing number of our Nation's elders and their families, and it is essential that we confront the challenge it poses to our public health.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047532", "text": "The lands and interests in lands within the monument's boundaries, except for the Old Point Comfort Lighthouse, are currently managed by the Secretary of the Army.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047533", "text": "Ensuring our future leaders and innovators receive a complete and competitive education is fundamental to our Nation's economic prosperity and our role as a thriving democracy.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047534", "text": "Since President John F. Kennedy founded USAID in 1961, the men and women of USAID have worked on the front lines of poverty and conflict to support communities and countries as they build a better future.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000047535", "text": "From irrigation to the Internet, our Nation's critical infrastructure supports an incredible array of services and industries that are essential to our continued success and prosperity.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047536", "text": "Critical infrastructure includes all systems and assets, both physical and virtual, that make vital contributions to our security, economic stability, public health, or safety.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047537", "text": "Natural disasters, pandemic diseases, and acts of terrorism can pose serious risks to our critical infrastructure, and it is imperative we are prepared in the event of an emergency.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047538", "text": "Around the world, we witnessed significant progress in consolidating democracy and expanding freedoms, often facilitated by critical assistance from the international community.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047539", "text": "The consequences of this crime are real, and they take a profound and ongoing toll on men, women, teens, and children across our country.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047540", "text": "Though stalking can occur in any community, shame, fear of retribution, or concerns that they will not be supported lead many victims to forego reporting the crime to the police.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047541", "text": "Every year, heart disease takes the lives of over half a million Americans, and it remains the leading cause of death in the United States.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047542", "text": "The war left wounds not always seen, but forever felt.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047543", "text": "Behind every member of our military stood a parent, a spouse, or a son or daughter who proudly served their community and prayed for their loved one's safe return.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047544", "text": "From Ia Drang to Hue, they won every major battle of the war and upheld the highest traditions of our Armed Forces.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047545", "text": "Many survivors experience depression, fear, and suicidal feelings in the months and years following an assault, and some face health problems that last a lifetime.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000047546", "text": "Too often, survivors suffer in silence, fearing retribution, lack of support, or that the criminal justice system will fail to bring the perpetrator to justice.", "issue": "retribution"}
{"id": "0000047547", "text": "As we fight sexual assault in our communities, so must we combat this crime within our Armed Forces.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047548", "text": "In January, we issued a revised definition of rape that will improve our understanding of where and how often this crime occurs.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000047549", "text": "As new policies and bold actions break down old barriers and reshape attitudes, we move closer to a world free of discrimination and full of understanding for our family members and friends living with ASDs.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047550", "text": "In a global economy where more than half of new jobs will demand higher education or advanced training, we must do everything we can to equip our children with the tools for success.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047551", "text": "As a tireless advocate for youth around the world, he inspired millions to lift the cause of education, to practice kindness and generosity, and to aspire toward their highest ideals.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047552", "text": "In times of war, generations have answered our country's call with courage and valor, braving the peril of combat and pressing onward in the face of tremendous adversity.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047553", "text": "Many prisoners of war experienced physical torture and profound anguish, subjected to inhumane treatment and cut off from their comrades, their country, and their loved ones.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047554", "text": "At a time when families across our country are struggling to make ends meet, ensuring a fair wage for all parents is more important than ever.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000047555", "text": "With leadership from the Department of Justice, we are investing in programs to prevent crime, drug abuse, and violence in communities across our Nation.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047556", "text": "From our parks and schools to our faith and service organizations, the generosity and talents of active seniors augment our children's education, bring our families together, and strengthen the fabric of our society.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047557", "text": "We weathered the storms of civil war and segregation, of conflicts that spanned continents.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047558", "text": "Because every American deserves access to a world-class education, we have worked to make learning environments safer and more inclusive.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047559", "text": "Sixty-two years ago, the Communist invasion of the Republic of Korea summoned a generation of Americans to serve.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047560", "text": "On World Hepatitis Day, we call attention to this silent epidemic, and we rededicate ourselves to the fight against viral hepatitis.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047561", "text": "From business to medicine to our military, women are leading the fields that were closed off to them only decades ago.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047562", "text": "Ongoing progress in science and medicine is moving us forward in the battle against ovarian cancer, and my Administration remains committed to improving outcomes for women suffering from this devastating illness.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047563", "text": "While the causes of prostate cancer are still unknown, men with certain risk factors may be more likely to develop the disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047564", "text": "In the 11 years since that day, more than 2 million American service members have gone to war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047565", "text": "With Hispanics representing more than 20 percent of students enrolled in our public elementary and secondary schools, the opportunities in postsecondary education offered to these young people will have a significant impact on our country's future.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047566", "text": "In these halls of higher learning, students are pursuing careers in science and engineering, health care, technology, education, and other fields that will bolster our economic prosperity and foster American innovation for decades to come.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047567", "text": "Every day, families across our country confront the tragic realities of Alzheimer's disease-an irreversible, fatal illness that robs men and women of their cherished memories and leads to progressive mental and physical impairments.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047568", "text": "Our Nation's critical infrastructure is complex and interconnected, and we must understand not only its strengths, but also its vulnerabilities to emerging threats.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047569", "text": "Destruction caused by devastating storms and other natural disasters this year underscored our reliance on our critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047570", "text": "Sixty-four years ago, a group of nations emerging from the shadow of war joined together to light a path toward lasting peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047571", "text": "And with that document, President Lincoln lent new moral force to the war by making it a fight not just to preserve, but also to empower.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047572", "text": "While advances in technology are making this crime more prevalent, they can also pose unique opportunities to address it.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047573", "text": "Together, we have brought a decade of war toward a responsible end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047574", "text": "Heart disease is the leading cause of death among American men and women, claiming well over half a million lives annually.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047575", "text": "Any one of them can lead to heart disease, and additional factors magnify the risk.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047576", "text": "Before the Congress created the National Park Service in 1916, the U.S. Army played a critical role in administering several parks.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047577", "text": "Today, we pay tribute to former prisoners of war who made that profound sacrifice.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047578", "text": "In the decades since, nations in the Americas have forged lasting partnerships in trade, security, and democracy that reflect our shared commitment to peace and prosperity.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047579", "text": "And inter-American trade is continuing to expand dramatically, supporting millions of jobs here in the United States and still more abroad.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047580", "text": "Career-ending injuries often led to poverty and starvation.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000047581", "text": "We have fought for freedom in the theater of war and expanded its reach during times of peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047582", "text": "Regardless of religion or creed, Americans reflect on the sacredness of life and express their sympathy for the wounded, offering comfort and holding up a light in an hour of darkness.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000047583", "text": "That means protecting our critical infrastructure and repairing roads and bridges that put our people at risk.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047584", "text": "Under the law, women will no longer face higher insurance premiums because of their gender.", "issue": "gender"}
{"id": "0000047585", "text": "As citizens of the oldest democracy on earth, we believe that all people are created equal with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047586", "text": "We must ensure lessons are inclusive, assessments are fair, and technology is accessible.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047587", "text": "All types of this disease pose serious health threats, and both hepatitis B and C can become chronic infections that lead to liver cancer and liver disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047588", "text": "Because ovarian cancer often goes undetected until advanced stages, increasing awareness of risk factors is critical to fighting this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047589", "text": "Hispanics have honorably defended our country in war and built prosperity during times of peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047590", "text": "Technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives, and protecting our digital infrastructure from cyber threats is one of our highest security priorities.", "issue": "Technology"}
{"id": "0000047591", "text": "Incredible advances in technology also bring increased risk of disruptive cyber incidents.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047592", "text": "Our digital infrastructure is a strategic national asset, and my Administration is committed to strengthening this vital resource", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047593", "text": "Over the last few decades, our Nation has grown increasingly dependent on critical infrastructure, the backbone of our national and economic security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047594", "text": "America's critical infrastructure is complex and diverse, combining systems in both cyberspace and the physical world-from power plants, bridges, and interstates to Federal buildings and the massive electrical grids that power our Nation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047595", "text": "As President, I have made protecting critical infrastructure a top priority.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047596", "text": "Because of the interconnected nature of our critical infrastructure, my Administration will continue to work with businesses and industry leaders and build on all the great work done to date.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047597", "text": "Working together with scientists, patient advocates, and those living with this disease, we can give a sense of hope to millions of families, patients, and caregivers.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047598", "text": "Diabetes can lead to serious complications, including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and blindness.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047599", "text": "We all have a stake in public education, and we all have a role to play-from parents and mentors to community leaders and business owners.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047600", "text": "A great education is a ticket into the middle class, and it should be available to everyone willing to work for it.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047601", "text": "At the same time, advances in our scientific understanding have allowed us to better fight this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047602", "text": "It will also prohibit discrimination based on HIV status and eliminate annual benefit caps.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047603", "text": "At this pivotal moment, let us work together to bring this pandemic to an end.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047604", "text": "Orville and Wilbur's sister, Katharine, used her teacher's salary to support the family and ran the Wrights' bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, while her brothers worked in Kitty Hawk.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000047605", "text": "We are deploying new technology in the fight against human trafficking, developing the Federal Government's first-ever strategic action plan to strengthen victim services, and strengthening protections against human trafficking in Federal contracts.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047606", "text": "Yet they continue to face workplace discrimination, a higher risk of sexual assault, and an earnings gap that will cost the average woman hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of her working lifetime.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047607", "text": "Last year, recognizing a storied history of patriotic and courageous service in our Armed Forces, the United States military opened ground combat units to women in uniform.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047608", "text": "It also bans discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions, including cancer, and eliminates lifetime and annual dollar limits on key benefits.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047609", "text": "Over her lifetime, the average American woman can expect to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars to the earnings gap, a significant blow to both women and their families.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000047610", "text": "Tens of millions of Americans face mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or post-traumatic stress disorder.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000047611", "text": "Over the course of a year, one in five adults will experience a mental illness, yet less than half will receive treatment.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047612", "text": "During National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week, we underscore the importance of infrastructure to our economy, security, and way of life.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047613", "text": "Infrastructure also plays a vital role in America's security.", "issue": "Infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047614", "text": "In order to safeguard our Nation, we must ensure our infrastructure is resilient enough to withstand disaster and keep supply lines open.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047615", "text": "For more than half a century, Plessy gave constitutional backing to discrimination, and civil rights organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People faced an uphill battle as they sought equality, opportunity, and justice under the law.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047616", "text": "It declared that education must be made available to all on equal terms and demanded that America's promise exclude no one.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047617", "text": "Thanks to the men and women who fought for equality in the courtroom, the legislature, and the hearts and minds of the American people, we have confined legalized segregation to the dustbin of history.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000047618", "text": "Thanks to their extraordinary sacrifice, we are winding down more than a decade of war and strengthening alliances that extend our values.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047619", "text": "Today, the alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea-forged in war and fortified by common ideals-remains as strong as ever.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047620", "text": "But ovarian cancer is difficult to detect early-there is no simple and reliable way to screen for this disease, symptoms are often not clear until later stages, and most women are diagnosed without being at high risk.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047621", "text": "For generations, the promise of an education has been a beacon of hope for millions of Americans seeking a better life.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047622", "text": "These schools waged a war against illiteracy and ignorance and offered a newly free people the opportunity to write their own chapter in the American story.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047623", "text": "They jeopardize our country's critical infrastructure, endanger our individual liberties, and threaten every American's way of life.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047624", "text": "Enhancing the security of our Nation's digital infrastructure is a shared responsibility, and together we can protect our most important information systems.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047625", "text": "Americans with disabilities lead thriving businesses, teach our children, and serve our Nation; they are innovators and pioneers of technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047626", "text": "The Government is leading the way by deploying renewable energy on public lands and across federally subsidized housing and military installations.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047627", "text": "And I continue to support incentives for private investment in these energy sources, including Federal financing, which-during my Administration-has brought over $30 billion of capital to the clean energy sector.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047628", "text": "A resolute people fought for democracy, liberty, and freedom from tyranny.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047629", "text": "Guided by our Cybersecurity Framework, we are working to protect our critical infrastructure from cyber threats, while promoting an open and reliable cyberspace.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047630", "text": "This devastating disease affects men and women of all backgrounds and ages, and can cause serious health complications, including blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, stroke, and the loss of lower limbs.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047631", "text": "Across our country, veterans who fought to protect our democracy around the globe are strengthening it here at home.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047632", "text": "A strong school system bolsters our economy and strengthens our democracy, and it is at the core of the American belief that with hard work, anyone can get ahead.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047633", "text": "An education equips the leaders of tomorrow with the knowledge and vision they need to discover the solutions of the future and build a better society for their children and grandchildren.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047634", "text": "Early education is one of the best investments we can make in a child's life, and my Administration is committed to expanding access to preschool and high-quality early learning across America.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047635", "text": "Around the world, more than 1 billion people experience a disability.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000047636", "text": "The men and women of the Greatest Generation went to war and braved hardships to make the world safer, freer, and more just.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047637", "text": "Protecting human rights around the globe extends the promise of democracy and bolsters the values that serve as a basis for peace in our world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047638", "text": "To secure these rights, they fought a war and enshrined these truths into our Constitution.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047639", "text": "Americans of all backgrounds can be at risk for heart disease and stroke-and nearly half of all adults have at least one major risk factor.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047640", "text": "Browns Canyon harbors a wealth of scientifically significant geological, ecological, riparian, cultural, and historic resources, and is an important area for studies of paleoecology, mineralogy, archaeology, and climate change.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000047641", "text": "Company founder George Pullman saw the positive incentives of good housing, parks, and amenities as a way to foster a happy and reliable workforce.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000047642", "text": "The 4, 000 prisoners of war in Honouliuli included enemy soldiers and labor conscripts from Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, and Italy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047643", "text": "During the period of martial law from December 7, 1941, to October 24, 1944, the U.S. Army issued hundreds of military orders, some of which were applicable only to persons of Japanese ancestry and enemy aliens.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047644", "text": "However, this disease does not always cause symptoms, and most colorectal cancer occurs in individuals with no family history.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047645", "text": "With grit and resolve, they have fought to overcome discrimination and shatter glass ceilings, and after decades of slow, steady, and determined progress, they have widened the circle of opportunity for women and girls across our country.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047646", "text": "Across the globe, girls have pushed forward to pursue an education in the face of poverty and threats to their safety.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047647", "text": "Critical decisions-from financing higher education to saving for retirement-can have lasting consequences for individuals and for our country's economy.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047648", "text": "This creed is at the core of our democracy, and it is central to our belief that America does best when all people are able to share in our Nation's prosperity and contribute to our success.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047649", "text": "That is why as my Administration has worked to bolster the rights, services, and support for all victims of crime, we have particularly focused on at-risk communities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047650", "text": "Mayors, Governors, and business leaders across the country are taking steps to deploy clean energy, boost energy efficiency, and create more sustainable communities and supply chains.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047651", "text": "In the face of unspeakable discrimination and adversity, they have fought tirelessly to realize their piece of the American dream and the promise of our founding, holding tight to the belief that a better day lies ahead.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047652", "text": "As tragic events show us all too often, Jewish communities continue to confront hostility and bigotry, including in America.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000047653", "text": "In today's global economy, a high-quality education is one of the best investments we can make in a child's future, and it is central to the promise that in America, where you start should not determine how far you can go.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047654", "text": "After 6 years of tremendous progress, America has fought its way back from the worst recession of our lifetimes.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000047655", "text": "This week, we reaffirm the importance of trade, and we redouble our efforts to position our workers, farmers, manufacturers, and businesses at the center of the 21st-century global economy.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047656", "text": "During World Trade Week, we renew our commitment to leading on trade in order to support more jobs and increase wages here at home.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000047657", "text": "As a Nation, we must continue our work to ensure the promise of education is within reach for all our daughters and sons.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047658", "text": "And in times of war or national emergency, they bolster our national security as a fourth arm of defense.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047659", "text": "Earlier this year, because of my landmark Executive Order on LGBT workplace discrimination, protections for Federal contractors went into effect, guarding against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047660", "text": "Carbon pollution is being absorbed by our oceans, causing them to acidify and changing entire ecosystems.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000047661", "text": "Today, the Republic of Korea enjoys a thriving democracy and a bustling economy, and the legacy of our Korean War veterans continues on in the 50 million South Koreans who live with liberty and opportunity.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047662", "text": "No war should ever be forgotten, and no veteran should ever be overlooked.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047663", "text": "The United States military is the finest fighting force the world has ever known-not just because of our weapons or technology, but because of the spirit, skill, and selflessness of our devoted military personnel.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047664", "text": "Suicide is often related to serious depression, substance use disorders, and other mental health conditions.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000047665", "text": "And for some of our Nation's veterans and military service members, these challenges are compounded by the invisible wounds of war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047666", "text": "As one people, we stand with all who struggle with mental illness, and we continue our work to prevent this heartbreak in our communities.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047667", "text": "Ensuring all members of our American family have access to higher education is fundamental to our society.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047668", "text": "Taking our place as a major player in clean energy, we are harnessing over 3 times as much electricity from wind and 20 times as much from the sun as we did in 2008.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047669", "text": "In addition to serving as critical foundations for an education, schools are often the only stable source of health and nutrition for many of our children.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047670", "text": "Too many transgender women and girls face discrimination, violence, and abuse.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047671", "text": "Expanding access to affordable higher education is key to safeguarding this ideal.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047672", "text": "Our effort to expand access to higher education includes making community college more affordable.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047673", "text": "Technology, energy, and information systems play a pivotal role in our lives today, and people continue to rely on the physical structures that surround us.", "issue": "Technology"}
{"id": "0000047674", "text": "During Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, we rededicate ourselves to safeguarding our infrastructure by staying attentive, alert, and ready to respond to any threats toward our homeland and our assets.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047675", "text": "Since our country's founding, brave members of our military have stood strong as one American team, ready to defend our homeland and safeguard the values for which we stand.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047676", "text": "Together, by drawing on the inherent ingenuity and innovation of our people, we can advance the cause of treating this disease and safeguard the gift of a long, happy, and healthy life for all of America's daughters and sons.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047677", "text": "The United States military is the strongest, most capable fighting force the world has ever known.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047678", "text": "Our Government does not sponsor a religion, nor does it pressure anyone to practice a particular faith, or any faith at all.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000047679", "text": "Affecting people of all races and ethnicities, cardiovascular disease is the single leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, responsible for one in three deaths in the United States each year.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047680", "text": "Violent dating relationships can lead to depression, anxiety, drug and alcohol use, and thoughts of suicide, and victims may continue to experience detrimental effects throughout their lives.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000047681", "text": "Drawn to this reliable source of potable water, in 1867 the U.S. Army established Fort Piute adjacent to the spring to provide protection to travelers on the Old Spanish Trail that crossed the Mojave Desert from the Colorado River to San Bernardino, California.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047682", "text": "It is a landscape defined by scarcity and shaped by travel.", "issue": "scarcity"}
{"id": "0000047683", "text": "During the height of World War II, the United States military recognized a need to develop a desert training program in order to prepare its troops to fight the tank armies of Nazi Germany in North Africa.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047684", "text": "The area has a remarkable species richness that makes it one of most biodiverse areas in southern California.", "issue": "richness"}
{"id": "0000047685", "text": "Certain populations are more vulnerable to crime, and my Administration is committed to defending the rights of crime victims everywhere and safeguarding their access to essential resources and services.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047686", "text": "A victim's immediate interactions after a crime are often with the law enforcement officials who are the first to respond.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047687", "text": "In wars and engagements since America's founding, brave patriots have experienced indescribable suffering as prisoners of war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047688", "text": "The advances we have made in education are a result of the many educators, administrators, and advocates who have opened the doors of opportunity for countless young people.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047689", "text": "Human activity is disrupting the climate, and the challenge of combating climate change is one that will define the contours of our time.", "issue": "climate change"}
{"id": "0000047690", "text": "During National Mental Health Awareness Month, we recognize those Americans who live with mental illness and substance use disorders, and we pledge solidarity with their families who need our support as well.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047691", "text": "Following the worst economic crisis our country has seen since the Great Depression, my Administration supported significant investments in education through the Recovery Act to keep more than 300, 000 educators in the classroom.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047692", "text": "On National Defense Transportation Day and during National Transportation Week, we reflect on the importance of infrastructure throughout our history, and we recognize the need to invest in these essential pathways to our future.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047693", "text": "Our technology, forecasting, and models have improved, and we have new ways of disseminating vital warnings and storm-tracking information.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047694", "text": "Despite the extraordinary progress of the past few years, LGBT Americans still face discrimination simply for being who they are.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047695", "text": "Jeopardizing marine populations and degrading oceanic habitats, pollution poses a significant risk to all of our interconnected oceans.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000047696", "text": "Every day, millions of Americans prove that recovery from alcohol and substance use disorders is possible-yet at the same time, millions more are struggling with the disease of addiction.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047697", "text": "This disease can touch any American in any community, and my Administration has made combatting substance use disorders a priority.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047698", "text": "Each September, in honor of the women who have been taken by ovarian cancer and the brave individuals still fighting this disease, we reaffirm our commitment to carrying forward this important work.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047699", "text": "When I took office, our country faced the worst recession many of us had ever seen.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000047700", "text": "And putting in long hours of physical labor can also cause illness or injury.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047701", "text": "No one understands the true price of these freedoms like our Gold Star families, whose humility, even in times of grief, represents the best of our country.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000047702", "text": "Technology plays an increasingly significant role in our daily lives.", "issue": "Technology"}
{"id": "0000047703", "text": "Disability touches us all, and together we can strive to ensure that all blind and visually impaired individuals face no unnecessary barriers to success.", "issue": "Disability"}
{"id": "0000047704", "text": "Today, more Americans are earning a degree in post-secondary education than ever before, and HBCUs are playing an important role.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047705", "text": "Both types can lead to health problems such as heart disease, blindness, and kidney failure.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047706", "text": "From the energy that powers our homes to the systems that allow us to communicate with one another, our critical infrastructure is essential to the stability and strength of our national security, economy, and public health.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047707", "text": "This month, we recognize the importance of our critical infrastructure and resolve to safeguard these vital systems so they remain strong and resilient.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047708", "text": "Our critical infrastructure spans a wide array of structures and systems we rely on to meet our day-to-day needs.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047709", "text": "And because our world has never been more interconnected, we know that keeping our critical infrastructure functioning will require collaboration with international partners.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047710", "text": "As our population grows and our technology advances, the demands of our critical infrastructure become increasingly significant.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047711", "text": "During American Education Week, we recognize the importance of education and renew our commitment to bringing a better education within reach for all our people.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000047712", "text": "The following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called on the Congress to declare war and make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047713", "text": "This commitment to science and innovation can revitalize our communities and economies and reignite our shared sense of optimism and opportunity.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047714", "text": "In the era of segregation, African Americans faced inconveniences, indignities, and personal risk in their travels.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000047715", "text": "The brutal portrayal of segregation in the South shocked many Americans and forced the issue of racial segregation in interstate travel to the forefront of the American conscience.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000047716", "text": "The death rate from heart disease in the United States has fallen dramatically since the 1960s, a significant public health victory.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047717", "text": "Despite this progress, heart disease remains a leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, and we must reduce its toll.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047718", "text": "The Red Cross has proudly and ardently supported our military, our veterans, and their families for more than a century, delivering over 352, 000 services to members of the military and veterans each year.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047719", "text": "While this fund cannot completely undo the damage caused by crime, it can at least ease the monetary burden felt by victims and their families in the midst of grief.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047720", "text": "They are leading researchers in science, medicine, and technology; dedicated teachers to our Nation's children; innovative farmers and ranchers; and distinguished lawyers and government leaders.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047721", "text": "Education is the foundation for success, and educational opportunity should not be limited or defined by status, income, or residence.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000047722", "text": "As one Nation, we will always stand strong against the threats of terrorism and lawlessness.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047723", "text": "Nearly 10 million Americans suffer from a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047724", "text": "An estimated 8.1 million adults in America suffering with a mental illness also struggle with substance abuse.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047725", "text": "Revitalizing our infrastructure is all the more important because American transportation enhancements have played and will continue to play a critical role in our national defense.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047726", "text": "For 3 years, alongside fifteen allies and partners, we fought an unrelenting war of attrition.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047727", "text": "My Administration has pledged to identify and eradicate transnational organized crime, gangs, and gang violence.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047728", "text": "The Department of State has also designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047729", "text": "By raising awareness of breast cancer and supporting research, prevention, and early detection, we will move closer to eradicating this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047730", "text": "The Nordics are also staunch allies in the war on terrorism and are valued members of the Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047731", "text": "We have aggressively fought pollution and reduced emissions even as our population, energy use, and energy production have all grown.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000047732", "text": "We need resilient, well-maintained critical infrastructure so that all Americans have access to safe food, reliable electricity, clean water, convenient transportation systems, quality public health and medical services, and instant communication every day.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047733", "text": "Our critical infrastructure also faces threats from capacity-induced strain, terrorist attacks, accidents, pandemics, space weather, and cyberattacks.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047734", "text": "As we celebrate American Education Week, we are reminded of the vital importance of education for our children, for our communities, and for our world.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000047735", "text": "According to a recent survey, only 11 percent of employers strongly agreed that America's institutions of higher education are teaching graduates the skills their companies need.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047736", "text": "Last month, my Administration declared the opioid epidemic to be a nationwide public health emergency in order to focus needed Federal resources and attention on this critical matter.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047737", "text": "Horrific sounds of war shattered that peaceful Sunday morning, and our Nation was forever changed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047738", "text": "His strong, peaceful, and lifelong crusade against segregation and discrimination brought our Nation closer to the founding ideals set forth in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000047739", "text": "The Reverend's devotion to fighting the injustice of segregation and discrimination ignited the American spirit of fraternity and reminded us of our higher purpose.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000047740", "text": "These incursions, little by little, can destroy the fundamental freedom underlying our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047741", "text": "It compels us to address the opioid epidemic and to bring aid to those who struggle with mental illness.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047742", "text": "Science continues to support and build the case for life.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000047743", "text": "By giving parents more control over their children's education, we are making strides toward a future of unprecedented educational attainment and freedom of choice.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047744", "text": "More than 600, 000 Americans die of heart disease each year, making it the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047745", "text": "With the help of our Nation's leading medical professionals and appropriate preventative measures, we hope for a future where heart disease no longer claims the lives of so many American men and women.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047746", "text": "Those who fought against and ended segregation in the military reminded the Nation of its obligation to the self-evident truth of equality written into the Declaration of Independence.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000047747", "text": "A growing number of imposter fraudsters claim affiliation with the military in an effort to trick service members or veterans into sharing sensitive personal or financial information.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047748", "text": "Under current circumstances, this tariff is necessary and appropriate to address the threat that imports of aluminum articles pose to the national security.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000047749", "text": "In the meantime, the tariff imposed by this proclamation is an important first step in ensuring the economic viability of our domestic aluminum industry.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000047750", "text": "Under current circumstances, this tariff is necessary and appropriate to address the threat that imports of steel articles pose to the national security.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000047751", "text": "In the meantime, the tariff imposed by this proclamation is an important first step in ensuring the economic viability of our domestic steel industry.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000047752", "text": "However, the tariff imposed by Proclamation 9704 remains an important first step in ensuring the economic viability of our domestic aluminum industry and removing the threatened impairment of the national security.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000047753", "text": "However, the tariff imposed by Proclamation 9705 remains an important first step in ensuring the economic viability of our domestic steel industry and removing the threatened impairment of the national security.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000047754", "text": "He recognized that access to education, paired with moral and spiritual development, could transform the world for good, and he devoted his life to these principles.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047755", "text": "During April, America reaffirms its commitment to ending housing discrimination by celebrating National Fair Housing Month.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047756", "text": "They may fear retribution from their offender, lack faith in the justice system, or have difficulty confronting the pain associated with the traumatic experience.", "issue": "retribution"}
{"id": "0000047757", "text": "Beyond the income earned from a steady paycheck, gainful employment teaches responsibility and commitment and affirms human dignity.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000047758", "text": "Yet, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey, only 42 percent of the victims of violent crime report the offense to police, and only 12 percent of victims of serious violence received services to assist them in the aftermath.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000047759", "text": "During the conflicts of the past two centuries, more than 500, 000 United States service members have been captured and held as prisoners of war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047760", "text": "A system that increases the reliability and enforceability of patents will encourage even more investment in creative and innovative industries, leading to job and wealth creation for all Americans.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047761", "text": "Approximately one in five Americans experiences a mental illness, yet only about one third of them will access treatment.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047762", "text": "A great education is the foundation for a better future for students facing the demands and challenges of the 21st century.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047763", "text": "Technology, of course, plays a critical role in the economic and social development of our country.", "issue": "Technology"}
{"id": "0000047764", "text": "Their selfless support, volunteer spirit, and significant contributions have left indelible marks on our military and communities.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047765", "text": "We are focused on promoting American industries and goods; as a result of vigorous tax, trade, and regulatory policies, we are attracting a new wave of investment into our Nation's commercial enterprises.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047766", "text": "By adhering to these fundamental principles of international trade, we will expand trade in a way that is fair for the United States and leads to a more effective and balanced world trading system.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047767", "text": "In contrast, our relationship with North Korea has been hostile, due to continued threats to our allies, their development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs, and ongoing human rights violations.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047768", "text": "Although imports of steel articles have declined since the imposition of the tariff, I am advised that they are still several percentage points greater than the level of imports that would allow domestic capacity utilization to reach the target level.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000047769", "text": "Together, as one Nation, we can-and will-win the battle against the opioid epidemic.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047770", "text": "During National Energy Awareness Month, we recognize the remarkable role American energy plays in producing more abundant, affordable, and reliable power for our Nation and the world.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047771", "text": "America's future has never been brighter, and American energy is leading the way in providing jobs, opportunity, and security for our Nation.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047772", "text": "Once approved by the Congress, the USMCA will rebalance and modernize trade between the United States, Mexico, and Canada in a manner that greatly benefits American manufacturing, agriculture, and services-and so many other sectors of our robust economy.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047773", "text": "Additionally, earlier this year, we revised our bilateral trade agreement with South Korea to strengthen America's manufacturing sector and bring back high-paying manufacturing jobs for American workers.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047774", "text": "During National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we reassert our commitment to eradicating this devastating crime so that homes are places of refuge and love-not of fear or violence.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047775", "text": "In the Continental Army, General Pulaski volunteered to serve alongside our Nation's forefathers in their cause for independence.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047776", "text": "When Russia nevertheless prevailed, Pulaski faced exile and crossed Europe into France.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000047777", "text": "From it, the Union Army dispatched soldiers, horses, and other supplies to support military operations at the Cumberland Gap and the frontlines in Tennessee and Virginia.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047778", "text": "By the end of the Civil War, more than 23, 000 African Americans had joined the Union Army in Kentucky, making it the second largest contributor of United States Colored Troops of any State.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047779", "text": "The world today relies on critical infrastructure, such as power grids, water and food supplies, election infrastructure, transportation systems, and communications networks, that is increasingly complex, interconnected, and interdependent.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047780", "text": "During Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, we emphasize the vital role of strong national infrastructure in the national and economic security of our Nation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047781", "text": "By mitigating risks to our critical infrastructure, we can keep America safe, healthy, and prosperous.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047782", "text": "Cyber actors who aim to compromise or disrupt networks-often for monetary and political gain-are an increasing threat to our critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047783", "text": "The continuing and threatened mass migration of aliens with no basis for admission into the United States through our southern border has precipitated a crisis and undermines the integrity of our borders.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000047784", "text": "By actively engaging with educators, mentors, coaches, faith leaders, and community members, parents are best equipped to shape their child's education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047785", "text": "More than 100, 000 American service members perished in the war, and the lives of countless others were forever altered.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047786", "text": "They faced illness, harsh conditions, and uncertainty, as they trusted in God for a brighter future.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047787", "text": "In recent years, opioids and other injected drugs have caused HIV outbreaks in communities rarely affected before the outbreak of the epidemic.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000047788", "text": "We will broaden America's leadership in aerospace technology, including through the return of civil supersonic flight, the growth of commercial unmanned aircraft systems, and continued innovation in space exploration and travel.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047789", "text": "My Administration knows that choice in education plays a vital role in the success of our children and our country.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047790", "text": "The current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000047791", "text": "The problem of large-scale unlawful migration through the southern border is long-standing, and despite the executive branch's exercise of existing statutory authorities, the situation has worsened in certain respects in recent years.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000047792", "text": "Despite facing discrimination and poverty, Irish Americans persevered thanks to their industry, leadership, and integral involvement in society.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000047793", "text": "These women were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for their service, and they paved the way for women pilots like Captain Rosemary Mariner, the Navy's first female fighter pilot and first woman to command a naval aviation squadron.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000047794", "text": "America's agriculture families and communities lead the world in producing food, feed, fuel, and fiber.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000047795", "text": "Counting for approximately 5.5 percent of our gross domestic product, our agriculture, food, and related industries are vital to our Nation's global economic success.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000047796", "text": "In addition to the harm caused to the victims of crime, these high recidivism rates place a significant financial burden on taxpayers, deprive our labor force of productive workers, and leave families without spouses, children, and parents.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047797", "text": "Victims of crime-including women who are survivors of crime-need safe environments conducive to disclosing to authorities information about their abuse and offender.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047798", "text": "Throughout our history, hundreds of thousands of American service members have been held as prisoners of war , enduring harsh treatment, unforgiving conditions, and the anguish of being separated from their families.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047799", "text": "We must not forget that the struggle is one between dictatorship and democracy, between oppression and freedom, and between continued suffering for millions of Venezuelans and an opportunity for a renewed future of freedom and prosperity.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000047800", "text": "The community of democracies in our Western Hemisphere must continue to support the people of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua as they fight for the restoration of democracy and liberty.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047801", "text": "He sought to expand freedom in education while finding common ground with those of differing beliefs and backgrounds.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047802", "text": "For example, a critical part of our ongoing negotiations with China includes putting an end to the hundreds of billions of dollars of intellectual property we lose to China each year.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047803", "text": "The First Amendment recognizes the freedom of religion and safeguards this right against government infringement.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000047804", "text": "We have no tolerance for those who disrupt this peace, and we condemn all hate and violence, particularly in our places of worship.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000047805", "text": "Twenty-four percent of these individuals are living with a serious mental illness, and approximately 3.1 million adults have both a mental illness and a substance use disorder.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047806", "text": "In just 1 year, rates of major depression, reports of suicidal thoughts and attempts, and instances of serious mental illness have all increased for our youth and young adults, with more than one in 10 young adults seriously considering suicide in 2017.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047807", "text": "For example, it results in unemployment and underemployment of military spouses.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000047808", "text": "The best way we can support law enforcement is to reduce violent crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047809", "text": "She had been, during the war of our Revolution, an ardent patriot, and the earliest lesson of unbounded devotion to the cause of their country that her children received was from her.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047810", "text": "Although imports of steel articles had declined since the imposition of the tariff, I was advised that they were still several percentage points greater than the level of imports that would allow domestic capacity utilization to reach the target level.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000047811", "text": "The rapid application of commercial breakthroughs in automobile technology is necessary for the United States to retain competitive military advantage and meet new defense requirements.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047812", "text": "My Administration's leadership in strongly pursuing fair trade is enabling our Nation's firms to compete on a more level, fair playing field.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047813", "text": "Greater transparency in global trade and predictable business climates in economies that adhere to high standards for trade and investment will bring greater prosperity to our Nation and the world.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047814", "text": "The Article description for heading 9903.80.01, in subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTSUS, is amended by deleting of South Korea, of Brazil, of Turkey and inserting of Brazil, of Canada, of Mexico, of South Korea, of Turkey.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047815", "text": "The 'Article description' for heading 9903.80.01 in subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTSUS is amended by replacing 'of South Korea, of Turkey' with 'of South Korea'..", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047816", "text": "During times of war, merchant mariners courageously sail into combat zones to provide sealift for the Department of Defense, carrying weapons and supplies to America's fighting forces.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047817", "text": "Our ironclad alliance with the Republic of Korea was cemented when the first American troops arrived on its soil to fight for liberty and human dignity.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047818", "text": "Our military, together with our allies, stands vigilant, strong, and ready to fight tonight on the ground, in the air, and at sea.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047819", "text": "This month, we reaffirm our commitment to the critical battle against alcohol and drug addiction, remember the lives lost to this disease, and honor those in recovery.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047820", "text": "Although cancer is the leading cause of post-infancy death among our Nation's young people, there is hope for those afflicted by this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047821", "text": "This historic legislation also created Opportunity Zones that are driving investment toward and revitalizing distressed communities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047822", "text": "The Government of Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its Qods Force, supports terrorists and directly engages in terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047823", "text": "Maintaining and enhancing a modern and secure network of electric power lines, oil and natural gas pipelines, and energy storage facilities is essential to keeping energy accessible, affordable, and reliable for American businesses and American consumers.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047824", "text": "To better enable all communities to overcome the grip of addiction, we are allocating critical resources to fight this epidemic on the front lines.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000047825", "text": "The strength of our Union and the defense of our precious liberty require both constant vigilance and moral clarity.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000047826", "text": "Our Nation's infrastructure is critical to supporting our economy, national security, and way of life.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047827", "text": "To fully protect our critical infrastructure, we must secure the process of delivering products, supplies, and materials from supplier to the manufacturer to the customer.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047828", "text": "Working together, public and private owners and operators of critical infrastructure must continue to take actions to mitigate these threats.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047829", "text": "The courage of our men and women who served and fought during that war freed the world from the shroud of tyranny and ended the oppression of millions across the globe.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047830", "text": "In order to successfully prepare students for the jobs and economy of the future, education must be dynamic and forward-thinking in its scope and focus.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047831", "text": "This week, we recognize the power of education and pay tribute to the educators and role models who shape the students of today into the leaders of tomorrow.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047832", "text": "Education in America is as important today as it ever has been, and we remain committed to providing teachers and students with the freedom and resources they need to be successful.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000047833", "text": "Today, we reaffirm our commitment to control this disease as a public health threat and end its devastating impact on families and communities worldwide.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047834", "text": "Repressive governments persecute religious worshipers using high-tech surveillance, mass detention, and torture, while terrorist organizations carry out barbaric violence against innocent victims on account of their religion.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000047835", "text": "Throughout his battle against segregation and discrimination, Dr. King praised his fellow demonstrators for returning back to the deep wells of democracy that trace their roots to our founding.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000047836", "text": "Some cause illness in people and others circulate among animals, including camels, cats, and bats.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000047837", "text": "Manifestations of severe disease have included severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, and multi-organ failure.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047838", "text": "Nonetheless, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that the virus presents a serious public health threat.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000047839", "text": "The CDC has confirmed that the virus has spread between two people in the United States, representing the first instance of person-to-person transmission of the virus within the United States.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000047840", "text": "As the leading cause of death for both men and women nationwide, heart disease devastates hundreds of thousands of families every year.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000047841", "text": "CDC has determined that the Islamic Republic of Iran is experiencing sustained person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047842", "text": "As of February 28, 2020, Iran had 388 cases of COVID-19, a significant increase from prior days.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047843", "text": "On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the COVID-19 outbreak can be characterized as a pandemic, as the rates of infection continue to rise in many locations around the world and across the United States.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000047844", "text": "The spread of COVID-19 within our Nation's communities threatens to strain our Nation's healthcare systems.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000047845", "text": "As of March 12, 2020, 1, 645 people from 47 States have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000047846", "text": "As we continue to face the unique challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, millions of Americans are unable to gather in their churches, temples, synagogues, mosques, and other houses of worship.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047847", "text": "As part of this deal, China has pledged to increase imports of American goods and services over the next 2 years by at least $200 billion, including purchasing more than $80 billion in American agricultural goods.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047848", "text": "Wherever our flag is, it stands for freedom, justice, and opportunity; it is a beacon of democracy and the fundamental American promise that everyone is created equal and united in pursuit of a more perfect Union.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047849", "text": "The leaders' ambitious efforts include major initiatives on infrastructure, maritime security, public-private partnership, climate, health, critical and emerging technologies, and space.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047850", "text": "From cybersecurity to critical infrastructure to software, the Quad is committed to advancing a secure and resilient cyber ecosystem.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000047851", "text": "The fact that John McCain and I differ fundamentally on the war in Iraq, we differ on healthcare, we differ on tax policy.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000047852", "text": "And they've, in effect, been willing to bet the farm on aligning with the United States, tying their economies closer to ours.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000047853", "text": "Remember an awful lot of agriculture here will benefit from this, in terms of having better access to those Central American markets.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000047854", "text": "Almost half of state prisoners are incarcerated for non-violent crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047855", "text": "On Syria, the two leaders discussed the differences that the United States and Russia have had on the issue of Syria over the course of the last several months.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000047856", "text": "On Iran, the two leaders discussed the upcoming P5-plus-1 talks with the Iranian government that are being worked out.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047857", "text": "Sullivan stressed the U.S. commitment to ensure Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047858", "text": "They also discussed Ukraine, as well as the burgeoning defense partnership between Russia and Iran and its implications for security in the Middle East region.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047859", "text": "The U.S. and Israeli delegations held detailed consultations on Iran, with Mr. Sullivan underscoring the U.S. administration's determination to confront all aspects of the threat Iran poses to regional and international peace and security.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047860", "text": "The First Lady and the Trump Administration have made child welfare a priority by providing guidance and best practices for remote or virtual court hearings in child welfare cases and supporting caseworkers by allowing videoconferencing for monthly visits.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000047861", "text": "American women, who comprise over half of the workforce, experienced their lowest rate of unemployment in over 65 years.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000047862", "text": "Looking forward to the Summit for Democracy, the President and Prime Minister affirmed their commitment to promote democracy, human rights, and media freedom around the world.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000047863", "text": "President Bidenand President Lpez Obradoralsoreaffirmedtheircommitment to addressthe root causes of migration.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000047864", "text": "President Biden raised Russia's brutal war against Ukraine and Russia's irresponsible threats of nuclear use.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047865", "text": "President Biden and President Xi reiterated their agreement that a nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won and underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047866", "text": "The President made clear his commitment to ensure Iran never develops a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047867", "text": "The United States calls on Russia to de-escalate tensions by withdrawing its forces back to bases in Crimea and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000047868", "text": "As a member of both organizations, Russia would be able to participate.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000047869", "text": "On Syria, the President emphasized that de-escalation and a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict are the only viable ways to end the suffering, prevent another migration crisis, and move toward a political transition.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000047870", "text": "The leaders also took stock of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047871", "text": "This pandemic is an important time to be able to collaborate with our Federal family, and this first meeting was a key step towards a great partnership.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000047872", "text": "The President and the Prime Minister agreed on the importance of Iran strictly abiding by its obligations under the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047873", "text": "On Ukraine, leaders reiterated their rejection of Russia's occupation and attempted annexation of the Crimea.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047874", "text": "The leaders reiterated that sanctions against Russia would be lifted if the Minsk agreements were fully implemented.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000047875", "text": "On energy, the two countries affirmed their desire to continue bilateral consultations in a way that enhances the growth of the global economy and limits supply disruption and market volatility.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047876", "text": "More specifically, they discussed the importance of education and President Castro's desire to safely reopen schools.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047877", "text": "Vice President Harris emphasized that combating corruption and impunity remains at the center of our commitment to address the root causes of migration.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000047878", "text": "Multiple experts explained that technology now plays a central role in access to critical opportunities like job openings, home sales, and credit offers, but that too often companies' algorithms display these opportunities unequally or discriminatorily target some communities with predatory products.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047879", "text": "This war belongs to the President, not to his generals or his ambassadors.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047880", "text": "The sectarian war continues unabated... militias still dominate the country... and more Iraqis are fleeing their homes for fear of sectarian violence than ever before.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047881", "text": "A rising China will fuel economic growth and prosperity and it will bring to the fore a new partner with whom we can meet global challenges together.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047882", "text": "When President Obama and I took office in January of 2009, we made our relationship with China a top priority.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047883", "text": "The fact is China and the United States face many of the same threats and share many of the same objectives and responsibilities.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047884", "text": "If armed with nuclear weapons on long-range missiles, North Korea and Iran would pose a direct and serious threat to the security of the United States of America and our allies.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047885", "text": "So we will continue to look to China to send a clear message to Iranian leaders through its words and its deeds that they, Iran, must live up to their international obligations.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047886", "text": "From Afghanistan, to Pakistan, to the Sudan -- and we have been and will continue to discuss our mutual interests and concerns.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000047887", "text": "A more prosperous China will mean more demand for American-made goods and services and more jobs back home in the United States of America.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047888", "text": "So our interest is not just to protect Chinese investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047889", "text": "We have an overarching interest in protecting the investment, while the United States has never defaulted -- and never will default.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000047890", "text": "Protecting freedoms such as those enshrined in China's international commitments and in China's own constitution -- we see them as a key aspect of China's successful emergence and the key continued growth and prosperity.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000047891", "text": "I know that some in China believe that greater freedom could threaten economic progress by undermining social stability.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047892", "text": "But as I was talking to some of your leaders, you share a similar concern here in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047893", "text": "I mean being serious -- so as is known to all, public speaking, and English public speaking, in particular, is getting all the more popular in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047894", "text": "As a result of the disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United, the American political system has been totally corrupted, and the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047895", "text": "In Vermont and at our town meetings we know what American democracy is supposed to be about.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047896", "text": "As a member of Congress I voted against the war in Iraq, and that was the right vote.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047897", "text": "I am vigorously opposed to an endless war in the Middle East - a war which is unwise and unnecessary.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047898", "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, there are no moderates in Iran running their government.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047899", "text": "Sure there would have been a depression for Wall Street, but the depression was dumped on the people instead.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000047900", "text": "But it's very important that we define inflation the way free market economists do.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000047901", "text": "The war on poverty hasn't ended poverty, it's prolonged it.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000047902", "text": "There is no constitutional authority to dictate education from the federal government.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047903", "text": "That the very day that he was sworn in, our hostages who were languishing in Iran would be released.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047904", "text": "We've brought Iran to the table through sanctions that I voted for.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047905", "text": "But because they were not born into wealth or power, their future was destined to be defined by their past.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000047906", "text": "They're bringing crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047907", "text": "And, you know, China comes over and they dump all their stuff, and I buy it.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047908", "text": "And, in my opinion, the new China, believe it or not, in terms of trade, is Mexico.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047909", "text": "There is so much wealth out there that can make our country so rich again, and therefore make it great again.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000047910", "text": "Most of you know I opposed this war from the start.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047911", "text": "The greatest threat to future generations is radical Islamic terrorism and we need to do something about it.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000047912", "text": "They are standing up and fighting for a living wage, and all of us will stand with them.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000047913", "text": "I believe in a tax on carbon because I see climate change as one of the great global crises that we face.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000047914", "text": "Secretary Clinton does not support a tax on carbon.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000047915", "text": "And the decisions we make now about our military will determine our ability to defend ourselves in the future.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047916", "text": "It's getting harder and harder to make the mortgage, or fill up your gas tank, or even keep the electricity on at the end of the month.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000047917", "text": "That's how we've overcome war and depression.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047918", "text": "It constrains our economy, shifts wealth to hostile regimes, and leaves us dependent on unstable regions.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000047919", "text": "Steven is uniquely suited to be our next secretary of energy as we make this pursuit a guiding purpose of the Department of Energy, as well as a national mission.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047920", "text": "She shares my belief that the UN is an indispensable and imperfect forum.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000047921", "text": "He has seen the promise of trade, but also its pitfalls.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000047922", "text": "To chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, I've chosen Gary Gensler, who brings a wealth of expertise from both the public and private sectors to this position.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000047923", "text": "Whether it's fighting poverty, strengthening our economy, or promoting opportunity, education is the common thread.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047924", "text": "And, finally, education is going to play a critical role in this.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047925", "text": "He's a combat veteran who served our country in war.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000047926", "text": "Other states have doubled down on abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000047927", "text": "Surely, we can all agree that abortion up until the time of birth is a bridge too far.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000047928", "text": "We're talking brutal regimes like Communist China and North Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047929", "text": "We should be able to agree that contraception should be more available, not less.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000047930", "text": "Fifty years ago, a court forced unlimited abortion on an unwilling nation.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000047931", "text": "Education is one issue where it should be easy to find common purpose and common solutions.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000047932", "text": "And for all the reasons that you've just delineated, Mrs. Bush -- the importance of the education of girls and the empowerment of women.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047933", "text": "And that -- Mandela's most important quote of the millions of things he has said is that education is probably the most powerful weapon for change.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047934", "text": "And we looked at war so differently back in the 1960s and the 1970s because there were drafts, and certainly we were not attacked on our turf leading into that war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047935", "text": "And hopefully we're not going to have another major war again.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047936", "text": "I know that we have brand-new wars that were sort of after the Cold War before, but you have really, again, you've done more than anybody expected and your influence has been remarkable.", "issue": "War"}
{"id": "0000047937", "text": "Health information technology will flourish because the market will demand it.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000047938", "text": "We believe in Americanism; she believes in globalism.", "issue": "globalism"}
{"id": "0000047939", "text": "He got bogged down in a war that was a disaster and it destroyed him.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047940", "text": "With energy and vision, Paul Ryan has become an intellectual leader of the Republican Party.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047941", "text": "Because at this defining moment in our history - with our nation at war, and our economy in recession - we know that the American people cannot afford four more years of the same failed policies and the same old politics in Washington.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000047942", "text": "And we've seen a disastrous war in Iraq that should never have been authorized and never been waged.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047943", "text": "I opposed the war in Iraq from the start.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047944", "text": "We can end this war without George Bush.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047945", "text": "When I first considered your invitation, I thought I would talk about early childhood education - a subject of great importance to me.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047946", "text": "But after September 11, after she and her Mom watched the unfolding horror on television, she decided to enlist in the Army.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000047947", "text": "Using science, data, and discovery was a governing philosophy of the Obama-Biden administration.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047948", "text": "For example, a belief in science led to our efforts to map the human brain and to develop more precise and individualized medicine.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047949", "text": "Nelson has fused those insights into science and technology and society, like few before her in history.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047950", "text": "We cannot have Iran getting a nuclear weapon, which then triggers a decision by other countries in the gulf to get nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047951", "text": "On trade, we are going to end the international abuse, the foreign cheating, and the one-sided rules that govern NAFTA and the World Trade Organization.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000047952", "text": "Here, in Virginia, we are going to end the war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047953", "text": "They all support the same ideology of globalism that makes them rich while shipping your jobs, your factories, and your wealth to other countries.", "issue": "globalism"}
{"id": "0000047954", "text": "Hillary Clinton believes in globalism - taking jobs from Flint and moving them to other countries.", "issue": "globalism"}
{"id": "0000047955", "text": "There is no greater threat to Democracy than when a public official puts their office up for sale.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000047956", "text": "One of the biggest problems facing young people and families today is the cost of college education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047957", "text": "On top of that, the federal government spends over $70 billion in higher education every year, plus another $130 billion on federal loans.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047958", "text": "President Obama promised Obamacare would reduce the cost of healthcare by $2, 500 dollars.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000047959", "text": "They all support the same ideology of globalism that makes them rich while shipping your jobs, your factories, and your wealth to other countries.", "issue": "globalism"}
{"id": "0000047960", "text": "People who support the police, and who want crime reduced, are not prejudiced.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047961", "text": "We are going to lift the restrictions on American energy - which means at least another half a million new jobs a year.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000047962", "text": "She helped push Syria into a prolonged civil war by pushing regime change in that country too - without any plan for the day after.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047963", "text": "Most importantly, we will fight to end the systemic poverty in our inner cities, and to lift millions of African-Americans and Hispanics out of poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000047964", "text": "And when I look at these trade deals -- it's so sad -- where we lose $800 billion -- billion with B -- dollars a year on trade with China alone, it's $400 billion and $500 billion and $505 billion.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047965", "text": "We're fighting a political correct war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047966", "text": "She has nothing but hostility in her heart for hardworking Americans, of all backgrounds, who just want to live in safety, security and peace.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000047967", "text": "My agenda of reducing crime will benefit all Americans, but those who will benefit most are African-American and Hispanic-American citizens living in high crime communities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000047968", "text": "Since the President's failed trillion dollar stimulus we have lost over 2.5 million jobs while adding 416, 000 government jobs.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000047969", "text": "Even the President's new economic advisor agrees that extending unemployment benefits discourages future employment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000047970", "text": "In the depths of the recession, this administration saw higher education as critical to our plans to revitalize the American economy, and moved quickly to support students and their families.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047971", "text": "The trip, in preparation for the US Africa Leaders Summit, focused on the importance of girls' education and women's participation in government, the economy, and civil society.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000047972", "text": "They talked about Iran and the need to make certain that the IAEA holds Iran to its obligations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047973", "text": "You just think about how important the constitution is to the United States, and how it's allowed the evolution of democracy over time.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000047974", "text": "The second is to make sure that Ukraine has the financial support it needs moving forward.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000047975", "text": "And working bilaterally with the United States, bilaterally with individual European countries, and also multilaterally through NATO, we are in the process of giving both training assistance to the Ukrainians as well as equipment that enhances their defensive capability.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000047976", "text": "One because Russia has not been complying with the Minsk agreement, and as a consequence we're looking at the need for additional steps.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000047977", "text": "One of the most important issues, frankly - other than maybe defense, because we're going to build up our military, it's so depleted.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047978", "text": "Just today it was announced that North Korea performed its fifth nuclear test - its fourth since Hillary Clinton became secretary of state.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000047979", "text": "Her policies have also put Iran onto a path of nuclear weapons, and I have to say made them overnight an absolute power.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047980", "text": "He tenure has brought us only war and destruction and death.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047981", "text": "We'll stand up to China, and we're going to fight for every last job.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000047982", "text": "This war has fueled terrorism and helped galvanize terrorist organizations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047983", "text": "This includes direct engagement with Iran similar to the meetings we conducted with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War, laying out in clear terms our principles and interests.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000047984", "text": "For the last several decades, people in small towns and cities and rural areas all across this country have seen globalization change the rules of the game on them.", "issue": "globalization"}
{"id": "0000047985", "text": "Senator Obama, the vast majority of Americans believe that abortion is a decision to be made by a woman, her family and her doctors.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000047986", "text": "That that's distinguished from euthanasia in which someone else is making the decision for them.", "issue": "euthanasia"}
{"id": "0000047987", "text": "Just as I don't think science generally is incompatible with Christian faith.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047988", "text": "I don't believe there's a war at all.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047989", "text": "How do you relate your faith or personal convictions to science generally and science policy, and let's take an issue like climate and flesh that out, or take stem cells, something like that.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000047990", "text": "I think religion can actually bolster our desire to make those sacrifices now.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000047991", "text": "They believe that religion has far too much influence in public life.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000047992", "text": "He was asked what he thought about the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047993", "text": "These jihadists will battle any form of democracy because to them democracy is blasphemous, because it says that citizens, not God, shape the law.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000047994", "text": "And because I love America, in this time of war, I feel I have to now stand aside for our party and for our country.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047995", "text": "Millions of people died as a result of that racism and that exploitation of one group of people thinking they are superior to another group of people because of differences of color or of language or of customs.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000047996", "text": "I have a comprehensive strategy to end the war responsibly.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047997", "text": "Fifth , instruct the U.S. military to draw up plans for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq by 2008.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000047998", "text": "To delay building them by weeks or months to make a political point that would not have ended the war would have been unconscionable.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000047999", "text": "The war in Iraq must end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048000", "text": "I just wanted to tell you how excited I am that Michelle Obama is here; second, the subject is just -- it's education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048001", "text": "And education is a key way to help accomplish that objective.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048002", "text": "We're making critical investments to get healthier food into our schools.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048003", "text": "And I'll never forget about a young woman that I met there named Maricela, who I met at a roundtable discussion with young leaders in Mexico City.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048004", "text": "And we need that energy to propel what I think will be a good vision into a reality.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048005", "text": "The other thing I would urge you to do as part of your education is don't just be book smart, be smart about the world.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048006", "text": "So when I hear that there are 62 million girls worldwide that don't have the opportunity to get an education, it is an outrage for me personally.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048007", "text": "As Mrs. Abe said -- eloquently said in her remarks, there is nothing more important than getting an education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048008", "text": "It's important to note that the military has always taken a lead in terms of setting standards for the nation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048009", "text": "And Bruce, he knows from his own life how important education is.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048010", "text": "Or if they're not eating well -- because they've had soda most of their live, now they have dental issues that the military is covering.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048011", "text": "So we want to make education cool again.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048012", "text": "You also through an education will gain access to power and opportunities to make a difference there.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048013", "text": "And sometimes that can lead to the depression just because you're sitting on campus by yourself.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000048014", "text": "But I am also very excited about the food here at the White House, because one of the things that I was most excited about when I came in was to find that there are so many great professionals here.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048015", "text": "It doesn't clash with the food, so it's elegant without being too complicated, so you're focused on what the dish looks like, but the plate is still there.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048016", "text": "Well, I think education is so important.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048017", "text": "With my education, I plan to be the universal president of education in order for the world to know the importance of education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048018", "text": "Our nation, as you know, has been at war for nearly a decade.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048019", "text": "And in this past presidential election, they were engaged in our democracy like never before.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048020", "text": "And the individual who runs their cleanroom was a veteran.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048021", "text": "Employment is going to be continue to be important for Joining Forces over these next 14 months.", "issue": "Employment"}
{"id": "0000048022", "text": "I mean, the nuclear industry has benefitted from the Navy's investment, I would say, at least a half a million dollars in training an officer.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048023", "text": "Now, as you heard on the video, when it comes to global education, we've made real progress on getting girls through primary school.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048024", "text": "Through Let Girls Learn, we're supporting girls' education in conflict zones like the Democratic Republic of the Congo.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048025", "text": "And we're funding programs that address poverty, HIV and other issues that keep girls out of school.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048026", "text": "Well, one, I have to say, I have my chakra necklace on under this, just -- the importance of positive energy is so key.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048027", "text": "One of the biggest challenges that girls face globally is safety -- threats of war, kidnapping, rape, gangs, trafficking.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048028", "text": "And this is due to the willingness of the parents for maybe, let's say, the bride price which is something they need.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000048029", "text": "Sixty-two million girls around the world are, unfortunately, denied an education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048030", "text": "So in Tanzania education, we face challenges, but you should never let this", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048031", "text": "For example, as we met with Hispanic leaders and communities, we came to understand the special role that food plays in Hispanic households.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048032", "text": "Companies like Walgreens and SuperValu are making commitments to sell healthy food in 1, 500 underserved communities.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048033", "text": "My parents always supported education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048034", "text": "And while we were on our way, there was -- my mom always talked about education is very important, and my grandmother said the same thing, and it's every child's fundamental right.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048035", "text": "So what you want to say is that girls' education is important to all of us, which is why we're all here.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048036", "text": "The U.S. and the U.K. are serving together in Afghanistan as we complete a transition to the Afghans and wind down the war there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000048037", "text": "And then after I decided I didn't like science that much, I decided maybe I'd be a lawyer.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048038", "text": "I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048039", "text": "It's not hard to take some home -- that's one of the benefits of working here, we get to take food home.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048040", "text": "I challenged those leaders to market food more responsibly to our children.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048041", "text": "It's about showing our kids that healthy food can be fun and that fruits and vegetables just don't make us feel good, but they also taste good.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048042", "text": "It'll advance your education; it will expand your sense of possibilities; and it will make you more competitive for the jobs of the future.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048043", "text": "So like many of you, I believe that education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048044", "text": "But for me, to answer your question, the issue of adolescent girls' education is really personal.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048045", "text": "Because that's what makes a democracy work, truly.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048046", "text": "And that's why through Let Girls Learn, I'm also working to educate young people here in the U.S. about the sacrifices that girls are making worldwide.", "issue": "educate"}
{"id": "0000048047", "text": "Most often, these decisions involve the food that we -- that our families buy.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048048", "text": "This is going to take a serious and sustained investment over a very long period of time, people.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048049", "text": "So this investment represents a major milestone for these girls and for their country.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048050", "text": "You asked for more fresh, nutritious food in your communities.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048051", "text": "You asked for more information about the food you buy for your kids.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048052", "text": "You asked for better food in your kids' schools - the kind of balanced meals you're trying to make at home.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048053", "text": "With a father and brother who spent time in prison, Kendelle struggled in school and was always in and out of trouble.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000048054", "text": "A few years ago, when Willie was just four, his father, who was a major in the Army, died of cancer.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000048055", "text": "So if we refuse to put in the effort to provide nutritious food for our kids, they will reflect that back in poor health and life outcomes.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048056", "text": "And believe it or not, we even see the effects in our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048057", "text": "And the military was spending millions of dollars fixing broken bones and rotting teeth caused by poor nutrition.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048058", "text": "Military leaders are serving healthier food on their bases.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048059", "text": "In today's world, in order to compete in an ever-globalizing economy, you've got to continue your education after you graduate from high school.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048060", "text": "He is working to educate women about micro-credit and accounting so that they can run their own businesses and build better lives for their children.", "issue": "educate"}
{"id": "0000048061", "text": "But it will take new energy, it will take new ideas, new leadership from young people like you.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048062", "text": "But as we all know, so often they face such overwhelming obstacles to getting an education -- poverty, opposition from their families, cultural practices like female genital mutilation and forced child marriage.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048063", "text": "It's a wonderful organization that fights global poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048064", "text": "Now, altogether, these commitments represent more than $20 million of investment in the lives of adolescent girls across the globe.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048065", "text": "When it comes to the issue of global girls' education, believe me, I am just getting started.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048066", "text": "If you're a leader in a company, I hope you will make girls' education a priority in your philanthropic efforts, like so many of the companies have done here tonight.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048067", "text": "During these two days, we will share some of the food, art, and culture that brings the United States enormous pride.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048068", "text": "Because we know that leaving the military can feel like you're stepping into a whole new world.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048069", "text": "Your governments and organizations are improving education for millions of children.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048070", "text": "In each generation, brave women and men fought to end gender discrimination in the workplace, to pass tougher laws against rape and domestic abuse, to ensure equal access to education for women.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048071", "text": "Through Let Girls Learn, we're investing in girls' education in conflict zones because we know that girls in these areas are twice as likely to be out of secondary school.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048072", "text": "We're funding programs that address poverty, HIV and other issues that keep girls from being educated.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048073", "text": "And last month, we announced major new investments in girls' education in Pakistan.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048074", "text": "When one member of the family goes to war, the whole family goes with them.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048075", "text": "When Andrew was wounded in Afghanistan, he and his family faced an uncertain future.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000048076", "text": "I think we could actually lower tax, bring money home and build roads all at the same time.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048077", "text": "Of all the things that's gone on in the last six years, of all the scandals - and when I think of those scandals, I think of Old McDonald's farm of scandals.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000048078", "text": "When we go to war, it has to be through representatives and it has to be through Congress.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048079", "text": "You cannot defeat radical Islamic terrorism with a president and an administration unwilling to utter the words radical Islamic terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048080", "text": "Twenty months from now, imagine a commander in chief who stands up with utter clarity and says, we will destroy radical Islamic terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048081", "text": "And the single greatest national security threat facing America today is the threat of a nuclear Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048082", "text": "And even under the most generous reading of the deal the president is trying to sell us, they retain the infrastructure to enrich and reprocess.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048083", "text": "The international sanctions in combination with U.S. unilateral sanctions were having a devastating impact on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048084", "text": "Let me add in the realm of terrorism one other point, which we really haven't confronted until very lately.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048085", "text": "George Bush did not take us to war alone.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048086", "text": "I opposed the war, and spoke out against it in 2002 when it was not politically popular.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048087", "text": "Now make no mistake - Iran continues to pose a threat through its support for terrorism, nuclear know-how, and threats toward Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048088", "text": "More support for open-ended war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048089", "text": "President Obama's deal with Iran could only be reached through a long series of mistakes and miscalculations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048090", "text": "Iran has been run by a radical, fanatical regime for over three and a half decades.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048091", "text": "The religious Nazis running Iran faced no consequences for their actions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048092", "text": "Iran, in turn, felt the deep pain inflicted by a united sanctions effort, and agreed to come to the negotiating table.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048093", "text": "While President Obama was backing down from every single negotiating objective he had laid out, Iran was taking down the government of Yemen.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048094", "text": "Not doing so against a threat such as ISIS, or in places such as Syria and Iraq, is interpreted by other opponents around the world as weakness.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000048095", "text": "NATO must be vigilant and protective of its eastern-most member states who live every day in Russia's shadow.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000048096", "text": "The U.S. does not seek confrontation with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048097", "text": "As we rebuild our military we should consult with our allies to assess their military needs and their strengths.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048098", "text": "When a pro-life figure changes to pro-abortion, they get praised for their courage.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048099", "text": "My opponent favored bilingual education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048100", "text": "When I first ran for office, while I was always personally opposed to abortion, I considered whether this should be a private decision or whether it should be a societal and government decision.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048101", "text": "I fought for abstinence education in our schools.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048102", "text": "But the problem of an activist bench goes beyond the issue of abortion and gay marriage that.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048103", "text": "They have forgotten that the essence of democracy is the right to govern ourselves.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048104", "text": "At the heart of American democracy is the principle that the most fundamental decisions should ultimately be decided by the people themselves.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048105", "text": "Education is largely run at the state level.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000048106", "text": "I'd rather let - let education and what is taught state by state be determined state by state, not by the federal government.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048107", "text": "Syria remains a complicated war zone, led by a brutal dictator that our president said must go several years ago.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000048108", "text": "China is threatening its neighbors, stealing our secrets, and violating trade agreements.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048109", "text": "We have never spent more money on welfare in the history of our nation, with few results to show for it.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048110", "text": "As a veteran, I took offense to his attack on Senator McCain, and I found lacking his defense that he spent a lot of money on veterans' parades.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048111", "text": "I also learned the importance that everyone on the farm pitches in to do their share and then some.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000048112", "text": "Now, the agreement also stipulates that should Iran fully comply, or sign the agreement, comply, end its enrichment program, that it would be open to assistance with a civilian nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048113", "text": "But again, what's important here today is that Iran has made a commitment to fully comply with the IAEA.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048114", "text": "They got a commitment from Iran to sign the IAEA protocol.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048115", "text": "The war on terrorism is a war not envisaged when the Geneva Convention was signed in 1949.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048116", "text": "Iraq is critical to winning the war on terrorism, and we have made some crucial advances in key areas around the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048117", "text": "But even as we draw down our military, Mr. President, we will ramp up our political, diplomatic, and economic engagement with Iraq.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048118", "text": "And for a people who have struggled so long to establish a true democracy, this was, from my perspective and the President's perspective, the ultimate affront.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048119", "text": "As I said in the press statement earlier today, this attempted coup was an attack on the people of Turkey -- not just the government -- on the people of Turkey and their most cherished values.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000048120", "text": "From a 15-year-old child to an elderly member of this society around the age of 70 to 75, men and women, they took a firm stance against this attempted coup.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000048121", "text": "And I believe this failed coup yielded some very positive results at the same time, primarily because of all of the political factions in Turkey, all of the opposition parties, and all of the members of the society reunited.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000048122", "text": "Throughout our discussions with Vice President Biden, we've also discussed the developments in Syria and our fight against Daesh, which is a primary issue in our region.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000048123", "text": "Syria can no longer be governed by an individual to whom the people of Syria says no.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000048124", "text": "Syria, led by Assad, will never embrace democracy or stability.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048125", "text": "Assad has been engaging in state terrorism that resulted in the death of 600, 000 civilians.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048126", "text": "In terms of the operation in Jarabulus, we strongly support what the Turkish military has organized and done.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048127", "text": "After the September 11 attacks, the United States attached great significance to fighting against terrorism, and sometimes the United States asked for assistance from Turkey.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048128", "text": "And we are sworn to uphold that constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000048129", "text": "You and I will discuss the impacts of Russia's war in Ukraine on food supplies and how we can best support Tanzania's efforts toward climate adaptation and resilience.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048130", "text": "I've also reiterated our commitment in Afghanistan, and I am grateful to Vice President Biden for his gesture to which we attach the greatest value of visiting Spanish soldiers who are going to be soon in Afghanistan in recognition of their mission.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000048131", "text": "And we continue, as we did before the coup, to stand shoulder to shoulder with not only the government of Turkey, but with the people of Turkey.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000048132", "text": "We continue to fight together against ISIL in Syria and Iraq.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000048133", "text": "Despite what Vice President Biden said about no U.S. participation in the coup, it's certainly been suggested by many people in your government and certainly in the media that, in fact, there was some support, if not direct participation.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000048134", "text": "Well, you know, I think the opposition to the war in Iraq was as tough a decision as I've had to make.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048135", "text": "And I think that questions of war and peace generally are so profound.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048136", "text": "So all those questions surrounding the war have been very difficult for me.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048137", "text": "Now, let's deal with abortion; 40 million abortions since Roe v. Wade.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048138", "text": "Because historically -- because historically, we have not defined marriage in our constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000048139", "text": "They fought and died in every war since the Revolution.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048140", "text": "Beginning with the support for going to war in Iraq, and I opposed it so strongly.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048141", "text": "So if you're ready to vote for honest government and the honest government that you deserve, a Trump administration will end the corruption and restore integrity to government service.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000048142", "text": "He faced a recession and he made it worse.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048143", "text": "The President has just unveiled his latest jobs stimulus, and he's furious that we aren't enthusiastic.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048144", "text": "But Mr. President, we remember your last stimulus, the one you promised would hold unemployment below 8%.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048145", "text": "To strengthen our military, I will reverse the President's cuts to the defense budget.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048146", "text": "Early in the history of Christianity, they struggled with the issue of war and peace, because Christ taught about peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048147", "text": "And today I think the proper authority is not the U.N. or the NATO forces to take us to war.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000048148", "text": "It causes a lot of poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048149", "text": "Wars generally lead to inflation, the destruction of money.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000048150", "text": "In the Clinton years, the stated goal was to make abortion safe, legal and rare.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048151", "text": "Enterprises are key contributors to the wealth of human society and important forces in driving world progress and development.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048152", "text": "I would suggest, although you would make -- be your own judge, I think it's good for China, as well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048153", "text": "We will authorize or approve a vaccine solely on the basis of the data that we receive in the determination of safety and efficacy.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000048154", "text": "President Trump has made it clear that we want a vaccine available for the American people every bit as soon as it is safely and effectively available.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000048155", "text": "Our first objective is to have a vaccine that works, to have tens of millions of doses available, and then administer it to the American people.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000048156", "text": "It's one of the reasons why President Trump is calling for a new $105 billion from the Congress that we'll make available; $70 billion will be distributed just for K-12 education, and the rest for higher education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048157", "text": "We've dealt with this coronavirus pandemic in other major metropolitan areas and other states across the country.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048158", "text": "The American people have watched with great concern as the coronavirus has taken hold in this community.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000048159", "text": "The truth is that the risk of contracting the coronavirus to the average American remains low, according to all the health experts that I have here with me today and that are a part of our efforts at the national and state level.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000048160", "text": "I want to tell you, I think we are hearing good science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048161", "text": "You and I discussed the issue of Russia and Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048162", "text": "And we also discussed the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and reiterated our shared commitment to a stable, rules-based global order.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000048163", "text": "It would provide two years of universal early childhood education, which is not only important for families to promote their ability to work, but also for children.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048164", "text": "Because our democracy is being threatened by certain particular things, including this attack on voting rights.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048165", "text": "And if you know a veteran, please make sure that they are aware of this opportunity.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048166", "text": "In states where abortion is criminalized, an abuser could purchase a woman's location history through a data broker.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048167", "text": "Ninety provisions that restrict access to reproductive healthcare were passed in 2021.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000048168", "text": "And, by the way, states have been hit by this worldwide recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048169", "text": "Why in God's name when we're -- and, by the way, we announced a new windmill farm off the state of Delaware.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000048170", "text": "And, with some solid hints of stabilization in key markets, including housing, we may be starting to see some of the fruits of this investment.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048171", "text": "And on the issue then of democracies, I do believe that the nature of democracy is that there's a duality.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048172", "text": "And so, on this issue of democracy, I'll tell you how I see it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048173", "text": "I think that the nature of a democracy is that there's a duality to it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048174", "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, whether it's on education, or health care, or Medicare, ending the war in Iraq, bringing an end to the war in Afghanistan -- we need a man with a steady hand and good judgment.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000048175", "text": "Our administration has made tackling corruption a top policy priority.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000048176", "text": "Many countries in the region are still struggling to recover from the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048177", "text": "So, one of the colors on this map is -- represents the states in which abortion is banned from conception with no exceptions.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048178", "text": "I think about democracy in this regard.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048179", "text": "Among the laws that are being proposed and passed include laws that make no exception for rape or incest.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000048180", "text": "For example, let's deal with the fact that poverty is trauma inducing.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048181", "text": "I'll mention a woman by the name of Vanita Gupta who is -- many of you may know -- was very active as a litigator in civil rights, who has been tasked with heading up the Department of Justice's work in this regard.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048182", "text": "And I think there's a real energy and enthusiasm to fight for the rights that are at stake right now.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048183", "text": "And I do believe that a democracy will be as strong as our willingness to fight for it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048184", "text": "These states that are doing this abhorrent, immoral thing of saying no exception for rape or incest would have to stop.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000048185", "text": "When I was elected DA of San Francisco, I was the first Black woman to ever have been elected any DA -- a DA anywhere in the state of California.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048186", "text": "And I think that -- I think of democracy as being -- there's, like, two sides to it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048187", "text": "And the work that you have done here, in terms of prioritizing and having such success with education, is something that in my own country of the United States and around the globe we know must be a greater priority for all of us.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048188", "text": "We've seen a pandemic, which has really emphasized the significance of our mutual investment in the issue of global health.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048189", "text": "And I've just come from Ukraine, where the United States and our European partners are working shoulder-to-shoulder within the country's democratically elected leadership to support Ukraine's democratic development and its European aspirations.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000048190", "text": "Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000048191", "text": "But here in Europe, energy is -- energy security is an especially vital regional security interest because of Russia's track record in using the supply of energy as a foreign policy weapon against its neighbors in violation of basic commercial and international norms.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048192", "text": "I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048193", "text": "Russia can and should be a player, but it has to play by the rules of the game.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048194", "text": "But through skillful European mediation and active U.S. engagement, Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement that will keep the gas flowing this winter.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048195", "text": "I know a major obstacle is building the infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048196", "text": "And the nature of democracy is such that I think there's a duality.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048197", "text": "Under President Trump's leadership, we've been fighting for trade that's both free and fair so that American businesses and American workers can compete and win with companies anywhere in the world.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048198", "text": "Since our administration took office, unemployment reached its lowest level in 50 years.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048199", "text": "And so, the significance of what we are doing with the infrastructure law around lead pipes is we're saying this is a public -- this is a public health matter.", "issue": "public health"}
{"id": "0000048200", "text": "Because it is now this satellite technology from space will allow us here to have a sense of where it's going, what the trends are, and how we should be thinking again about the interconnection and the interdependence.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048201", "text": "What it will mean when we think about agriculture and the ability of people to grow food.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000048202", "text": "And in a democracy, we should agree that the government, therefore, should meet the needs, in particular in a public health crisis, and step in to take those pipes out.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048203", "text": "She's the only woman on the continent to lead a country.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048204", "text": "And in order for that to make sense and work for all the partners, there has to be an infrastructure that is about rule of law, that is about good governance, that is about an explicit intention to fight corruption.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048205", "text": "And then you go in, and that's the woman who actually runs it.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048206", "text": "What is happening with no exception for rape or incest -- and again, I go back to my professional career -- you're talking about individuals who, in those cases, have experienced the worst kind of act of violence and violation to their body.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000048207", "text": "No exception for rape or incest -- will render them null.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000048208", "text": "Where we have that kind of investment is critically important to make it real in the lives of real people.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048209", "text": "There are weapons of war that have no place in the streets of a civil society.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048210", "text": "And so, the people who are heroes, whichever gender they are, they ran their part of the race and then they passed us a baton.", "issue": "gender"}
{"id": "0000048211", "text": "And -- and while I wear the uniform to protect that democracy, it's equally important for everyone to do that.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048212", "text": "They would speak passionately about the importance of fighting corruption and a representative government and equality.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000048213", "text": "On the border, there's obviously a lot of political pressure coming from Republicans in particular, on this administration, but also some of the Democrats who represent some of those border districts.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048214", "text": "And to put this in context, this piece of legislation will be the largest investment ever made to address the climate crisis.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048215", "text": "And we are looking at the historic lowering of unemployment -- in fact, the lowest unemployment that we have experienced in our country in half a century.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048216", "text": "The work we did at the height of the pandemic was about making sure that our small businesses could stay open.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048217", "text": "It is simply about agreeing that a woman should be able to make that decision with her faith leader, with her family, with her physician -- and that the government should not be making that decision for her.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048218", "text": "In one year, the pandemic has put decades of the progress we've collectively made for women workers at risk.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048219", "text": "In fact, one woman, Caitlin James, held her newborn throughout our conversation -- which was by Zoom, because of course she was juggling all of the demands that are her daily struggle.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048220", "text": "We still face serious challenges in Afghanistan and Iraq, but our progress has been enormous.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000048221", "text": "On the broader picture, Senator Kerry has questioned whether the war on terror is really a war at all.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048222", "text": "In his view, opposing terrorism is far less of a military operation and more of a law enforcement operation.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048223", "text": "Business investment and factory orders are rising.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048224", "text": "In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime brutalized an entire population and harbored al Qaeda, and that regime is no more.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000048225", "text": "And our war on terror will continue until every enemy who plots against the American people is confronted and defeated.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048226", "text": "Education has been one of those issues where there's been a lot of talk over the years, but under this President's leadership, talk has been turned to action.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000048227", "text": "Our governor here, he doesn't like this tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048228", "text": "Because the conversation here right now was focused on infrastructure as, you know, hitting all corners of life, but a lot of voters feel that it should just be roads and bridges.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048229", "text": "So many of these issues were highlighted during the pandemic in terms of what we also know to be the fractures and the fissures in our system, in particular as it relates to the supply chain.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048230", "text": "Every woman in America should be free to make decisions about their life, in terms of, in particular, the choices that they have and should be able to have about their reproductive health.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048231", "text": "When we look at this issue, every woman should be able to make decisions about their bodies and their life without government interference, and if they so choose, in consultation with their pastor, their priest, their rabbi, their family, their physician.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048232", "text": "And one of them is that every woman in America should be free to make decisions about her own body without government interference.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048233", "text": "Every woman should be free to make that decision for herself and, if she chooses, in consultation with her loved one, with her physician, with her pastor, her priest, her rabbi.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048234", "text": "Let the woman make that decision with her doctor, her loved ones, her pastor, her priest, her rabbi.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048235", "text": "And then coming to the border at the -- at the advice and the -- and, actually, the invitation of the Congresswoman is about looking at the effects of what we have seen happening in Central America.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048236", "text": "The army fought three grueling months, displaying uncommon dedication and earning a decisive victory.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000048237", "text": "We have infused new energy and leadership into our unrivaled network of global alliances and partnerships.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048238", "text": "Our administration recently made the largest climate investment in our history through the Inflation Reduction Act.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048239", "text": "But what makes the difference between then and now is -- the single big difference is that he had no army.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000048240", "text": "And these companies need to have serious remuneration.", "issue": "remuneration"}
{"id": "0000048241", "text": "As we advance our efforts to address the root causes of migration, our administration is simultaneously working to ensure a safe, orderly, and humane processing system at the border.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000048242", "text": "One of my particular favorites about what we did with the Infrastructure Bill was an investment in public transportation, which I know is a big issue for Michiganders.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048243", "text": "A home represents financial security, the opportunity to build wealth and equity that can help put your child through college, afford retirement, create intergenerational wealth within your family.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048244", "text": "For so many women, the gender wage gap acts as a virtual tax, making it so much more difficult to pay the bills and invest in their future.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048245", "text": "In order to bring significant amounts of renewable energy online, we need to invest in tens of thousands of new, high-voltage -- tens of thousands of miles of high-voltage national transmission line.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048246", "text": "World leaders pledged to unite behind the principles of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048247", "text": "When we bring people in -- when we bring in all the people -- we are more successful, our results are more impactful because democracy is strongest, because our world is stronger when everyone participates.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048248", "text": "It will seek to use the tools of technology to strengthen personal engagement between young people in the United States, North Africa and the Middle East and the rest of the world.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048249", "text": "Expanding our nation's investment in community lenders has been a priority of mine and ours for years.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048250", "text": "And when we provide economic opportunity for people in Central America, we address an important driver of migration.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000048251", "text": "This investment is on track to generate, as a result of what we have done so far, tens of thousands of jobs, investments in sectors such as agriculture and textiles.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048252", "text": "This investment also means that more than 10 million people will have access to banking services and credit within that region, which is important if we are to fuel the capacity, the entrepreneurial vision, and desires of the people in that region.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048253", "text": "And in a globalized world, threats as diverse as terrorism and pandemic disease cross borders at blinding speeds.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048254", "text": "Each of the 28 NATO allies has now committed to providing security assistance to Ukraine, including over $115 million from the United States.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000048255", "text": "We're supporting Japan's efforts to interpret its constitution to allow it to play a larger security role.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000048256", "text": "So we assembled under great criticism a coalition with Russia and others to remove Syria's chemical stockpile.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048257", "text": "That's why have made it clear to Iran that we will not allow them to acquire a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048258", "text": "And the results have been massive capital flight from Russia, a virtual freeze on foreign direct investment, a ruble at an all-time low against the dollar, and the Russian economy teetering on the brink of recession.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048259", "text": "The pandemic has taught us that our world is more interconnected and interdependent than ever before and that the threats we face are accelerating more rapidly.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048260", "text": "Stories of women who experienced post-partum depression, only to be dismissed.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000048261", "text": "Our Build Back Better Act represents the single-largest investment to address maternal mortality and morbidity in our nation, ever.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048262", "text": "And with school closures worldwide, the struggle to ensure that every child has access to a quality education has become that much more difficult.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048263", "text": "History is full of leaders -- leaders in science, in politics, in business, in the arts, in education -- leaders who refused to accept the status quo, who asked why, who took action.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048264", "text": "A hacker in one nation can shut down the critical infrastructure of another.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048265", "text": "And to cushion the blow of this recession, we've also extended unemployment benefits and help in health care coverage for Americans who have lost their jobs.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048266", "text": "In our democracy, in every democracy, a representative government is foundational and the right to vote is fundamental.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048267", "text": "And so, we are equally committed to combating threats to democracy wherever they exist -- threats such as corruption, which corrodes public trust, fuels inequality, and can destabilize nations and entire regions.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048268", "text": "And I mentioned my belief that democracy is marked by both its strength and its fragility.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048269", "text": "Though we grew up in different times and places, under very different circumstances, the importance of democracy in our own lives was and remains clear.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048270", "text": "As we address the present threats to democracy, as we work to prove its value and vitality in this new era, as leaders of our world, we must all remember that democracy is neither an abstract concept nor a static state.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048271", "text": "Long after the cameras left the scene of that horrific crime, you have used your voice to represent the voices of so many.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048272", "text": "Today, America is again looking at and confronting the epidemic of hate-fueled violence -- in Oak Creek, Orlando, Victoria, Pittsburgh, El Paso, Atlanta, Buffalo, and in so many other communities.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000048273", "text": "For example, Russia's brutal war in Ukraine has led to disruptions to food and energy supplies that affect all of our economies.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000048274", "text": "Of course, our multilateral engagement and partnership extends beyond the U.N. The United States is a longstanding supporter of the African Union.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000048275", "text": "Infrastructure plays a very important part here, too.", "issue": "Infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048276", "text": "It is our faith leaders -- you have been housing the homeless; you have been feeding the hungry.", "issue": "homeless"}
{"id": "0000048277", "text": "Seniors and people with disabilities who have already been disproportionately impacted by the deadly pandemic should not be forced to abandon their home services for group settings where there are figher -- far higher risks of illness and death.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048278", "text": "You, of course, are not only leaders in the fight to defend our democracy; you really are partners to my office and to our administration, and I want to thank you for that.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048279", "text": "Second, we will invest in the infrastructure that supports your growth.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048280", "text": "So, our nation's infrastructure must support businesses like hers and support the growth of all small businesses.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048281", "text": "Susquehanna Glass also received crucial relief during the pandemic from the SBA's PPP program.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048282", "text": "But, in many ways, the pandemic was an accelerator; it accelerated for those for whom things were bad and made it worse.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048283", "text": "For decades, Washington has failed the American people on energy, and that failure has led directly to our current crisis.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048284", "text": "I've supported investments in alternative energy, and Senator McCain has opposed them.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048285", "text": "Finally, one of the fastest, easiest, and cheapest ways to conserve energy and use less oil is to make America more energy efficient and more competitive with the world.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048286", "text": "Instead of offering a plan with significant investments in alternative energy, he's offering a gas tax gimmick that will pad oil company profits and save you - at most - a quarter and a nickel a day over the course of an entire summer.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048287", "text": "President Trump has said that he downplayed the coronavirus because he didn't want to cause panic.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000048288", "text": "I am on a drug that has compromised my immune system.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000048289", "text": "Vice President, what is your plan to make healthcare affordable, so Americans don't need to drain their savings when care is necessary.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000048290", "text": "Is simply wrong to engage the military, in dealing with domestic unrest as a relates to violence as a consequence of people protesting.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048291", "text": "And very importantly, and Secretary Clinton and I have a big difference of opinion on this, I think we really need to rethink the war on drugs.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048292", "text": "We know that your administration would follow the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048293", "text": "So, it was at a time when the science was saying and his key people, Dr. Fauci, were saying, you should be taking these precautions.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048294", "text": "Well, you can contain the pandemic by being rational and not trust the economy.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048295", "text": "You've often said that more cops clearly mean less crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048296", "text": "Remember the significant rise in violent crime that was occurring the late 80s into the 90s.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048297", "text": "Or, by the way, I'm being sued because a woman's accused me of rape.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048298", "text": "I think you did a service to our democracy tonight.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048299", "text": "The Republicans will approve a stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048300", "text": "Nancy Pelosi, we are ready to sign and pass stimulus, but she's got to approve it.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048301", "text": "And especially during the pandemic, I think even you, Savannah, will be very impressed with what we've done.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000048302", "text": "For far too many troops and their families, the war doesn't end when they come home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048303", "text": "Finally, we need to make sure that every veteran has the same opportunity that my grandfather had under the GI Bill.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048304", "text": "The second part of my plan is a $50 billion stimulus to help jump-start job creation and help local communities that are struggling due to our economic downturn.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048305", "text": "Half of this stimulus will go to state governments that are facing big budget shortfalls.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048306", "text": "He's proposing to cut the gasoline tax paid by the oil companies and trust that they will pass on the savings in the form of lower prices at the pump.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048307", "text": "The second part of my plan is a $50 billion stimulus to help jump-start job creation and help local communities that are struggling due to our economic downturn.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048308", "text": "Half of this stimulus will go to state governments that are facing big budget shortfalls.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048309", "text": "Tested by war and Depression.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048310", "text": "While increased domestic oil exploration certainly has its place as we make our economy more fuel-efficient and transition to other, renewable, American-made sources of energy, it is not the solution.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048311", "text": "And when you're the daughter of a scientist, science has a way of shaping how you think and see the world.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048312", "text": "Today, the importance of that lesson - of following the science, of listening to scientists - is clear everywhere we look.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048313", "text": "But another reason we need to begin this withdrawal immediately is because this war has not made us safer.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048314", "text": "I opposed this war from the start in part because I was concerned that it would take our eye off al Qaeda and distract us from finishing the job in Afghanistan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048315", "text": "And they caused-they caused this deep depression.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000048316", "text": "It's five years of lost GDP on every social institution, every piece of infrastructure that makes the economy function, the healthcare system, the education system, the physical infrastructure, the maintenance of buildings and roads and so forth,", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000048317", "text": "The evidence available to this government indicates only continuing hostility and aggressiveness in Hanoi and an insistence on the abandonment of South Vietnam to Communist takeover.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000048318", "text": "I note what you say of the hostility emanating from financial racketeers, public exploiters and sinister forces.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000048319", "text": "Another issue should - that should unite us is infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048320", "text": "I have experienced the pain of discrimination.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048321", "text": "It's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048322", "text": "Republican governors faced the same Covid-19 virus head on.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000048323", "text": "But the Biden Administration has refused to secure our border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048324", "text": "With Texas and Arizona leading the way, I, along with Republican governors from several states have sent resources to the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048325", "text": "From out-of-control inflation and violent crime to the dangerous border crisis and threat from China, Biden and the Democrats have failed you.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048326", "text": "I'm the first woman to lead my state.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048327", "text": "Yet the Biden administration refuses to secure the border and save American lives.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048328", "text": "Beyond our border, from Afghanistan to Ukraine, from North Korea to Iran, President Biden's weakness puts our nation and the world at risk.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048329", "text": "And the President's refusal to stand up to China, our most formidable adversary, is dangerous and unacceptable.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048330", "text": "President Biden is unwilling to defend our border, defend our skies, and defend our people.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048331", "text": "To fight 21st century wars, we need a 21st century military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048332", "text": "Respected physicians and government officials should not fear going to jail for acting compassionately and caring for our most vulnerable citizens.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000048333", "text": "Respected physicians and government officials should not fear going to jail for acting compassionately and caring for our most vulnerable citizens.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000048334", "text": "At the forum, Richardson demonstrated his bold leadership on education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048335", "text": "President Obama's miserable record of joblessness throughout America is exemplified by decisions he has made, again and again, to thwart job creation in Alaska.", "issue": "joblessness"}
{"id": "0000048336", "text": "Iran is marching toward nuclear weapons capability and mobs have threatened our embassies abroad.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048337", "text": "The result is that President Obama is not even leading from behind on Iran; he is simply behind.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048338", "text": "He understands we're in a global war that demands not just a strategy for Iraq but a strategy for repelling jihadism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048339", "text": "Some 77 percent of small businesses said they made no net change in employment during the month, and 13 percent said they reduced employment by an average of three workers.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000048340", "text": "Unemployment rose in June in six of 10 battleground states that could play a pivotal role in the presidential election, reflecting job cuts in some cases and weak payroll growth in others.", "issue": "Unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048341", "text": "The device tax is supposed to raise $28.5 billion from 2013 to 2022, and it is especially harmful because it applies to gross sales, not profits.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048342", "text": "He also believes in a strong military and has unwavering support for our men and women who are protecting our freedom every day around the world.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048343", "text": "He has been an outspoken critic of the view tax - a tax that would unfairly and indiscriminately charge landowners for the view from their property.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048344", "text": "We're beginning to really make progress in alternative energy and things like batteries.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048345", "text": "But Republican presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson are tagging Huckabee as soft on crime because of a 2005 Arkansas law he signed as governor that gave some meth offenders more credit for good behavior.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048346", "text": "Methamphetamine makers could shorten their mandatory time in prison with good behavior under legislation approved Tuesday by the Arkansas House.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000048347", "text": "That brought the ratio of debt to GDP to more than 100%.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000048348", "text": "That brought the ratio of debt to GDP to more than 100%.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000048349", "text": "I think she is a wonderful woman.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048350", "text": "President, stop this war on capitalists.'", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048351", "text": "One of the major patterns Messrs. Jones and Rothschild uncovered was that the top-down stimulus was poorly targeted.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048352", "text": "Second, we must tighten economic sanctions against Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048353", "text": "Dad opened the way for manufactured housing, which made homes more affordable for millions of Americans.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048354", "text": "And he fought for integration in housing - not popular with everyone, even within the Nixon administration, but it was the right thing to do.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048355", "text": "The president announced a nuclear deal with North Korea this week.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000048356", "text": "Third, Arab states must join this effort to prevent a nuclear Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048357", "text": "And if I'm president, I'm going to go to work to make sure that are trade is on a level playing field around the world.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048358", "text": "President George Herbert Walker Bush once supported abortion, but later became convinced that it was immoral.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048359", "text": "John McCain and Senator Lieberman are talking about a new form of tax on energy in this country, which would make it even harder on the domestic companies.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048360", "text": "Well, Michigan has been going through a one-state recession, and I think a lot of people think, well, that's just too bad for Michigan", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048361", "text": "First, with a very substantial investment, and I'll describe how big it is, in research and development as it relates to the development of new automobiles, high energy, high efficiency vehicles.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048362", "text": "We're competing around the world now with China and India, tougher competition than we've ever faced before.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048363", "text": "It's an individual who is pursuing nuclear technology and announced just yesterday that he would provide that technology to other nations and groups that are confronting the West.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048364", "text": "Romney contrasted the American genius for accommodating religion in public life with Europe's history - state religion, followed by sterile secularism - and the Islamic world, where a totalist creed often persecutes dissenters.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000048365", "text": "Religious faith and religious tolerance define America's pluralist democracy and make it great.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048366", "text": "Romney declared this perspective - 'that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered in the context of the weighty threats that face us' -- to be 'at odds with the nation's founders.' ...", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000048367", "text": "A critical part of this effort would involve creating new trade and economic opportunities for the Middle East that could be powerful forces, not only economically, but also in breaking down barriers to cooperation on even the most intractable problems.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048368", "text": "If there is a war being waged by the terrorists, there will be war waged on the terrorists and we will win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048369", "text": "We believe in a strong military, a strong economy and strong families and values.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048370", "text": "They are also the laboratories of democracy - the best ideas can come from 50 states each doing their best work.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048371", "text": "This would eventually require raising the payroll tax to 18% or 20% from today's 15% to pay benefits to tomorrow's retirees.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048372", "text": "Candidate Obama campaigned on a promise to take China 'to the mat' for their currency manipulation - but President Obama just hasn't delivered.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048373", "text": "The Treasury Department, in its semiannual report Friday on exchange-rate policies, once again refrained from labeling China a currency manipulator -- an accusation that would embarrass Beijing and trigger negotiations and possibly even lead to U.S. sanctions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048374", "text": "That brought the ratio of debt to GDP to more than 100%.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000048375", "text": "I am concerned that repeal of the estate tax would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest- and highest-income taxpayers in the country.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048376", "text": "President Barack Obama reached out to Iran on Friday - the start of the Iranian New Year - in a video message offering 'the promise of a new beginning' that is 'grounded in mutual respect.'", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048377", "text": "France's foreign minister says Iran appears on track to reach the ability to produce a nuclear weapon by the first half of next year.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048378", "text": "The result is that President Obama is not even leading from behind on Iran; he is simply behind.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048379", "text": "The controversial Obama super PAC ad accusing Mitt Romney of contributing to the death of a woman whose husband lost health insurance is hitting TV for the first time.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048380", "text": "The controversial Obama super PAC ad accusing Mitt Romney of contributing to the death of a woman whose husband lost health insurance is hitting TV for the first time.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048381", "text": "But I think they look high because there's a recession, ' said.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048382", "text": "Instead of eliminating the tax on groceries, he fiddled and compromised and finally caved in to the Legislature.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048383", "text": "We are engaged in a global war on terror which will not disappear because you imply a willingness, without any preconditions apparently, to sit down with the enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048384", "text": "President Barack Obama will visit Largo on Thursday to give an address on American energy, White House officials said Monday.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048385", "text": "While we're seeing American manufacturing rebound, China is stepping up its efforts in a number of critical sectors, including clean and solar energy, advanced manufacturing, and auto parts.'", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048386", "text": "The administration continues to let China get away with flouting trade rules just for the sake of diplomacy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048387", "text": "Huckabee claimed a gasoline tax was only passed after 80 percent of voters approved it.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048388", "text": "Huckabee claimed a gasoline tax was only passed after 80 percent of voters approved it.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048389", "text": "Although a tax increase is in the bond plan, voter approval of the bonds did not raise or lower any tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048390", "text": "As mentioned before, this transaction formed the core of Ted Kennedy's ad war against Romney, and the interviews in those ads are raw and on point.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000048391", "text": "Romney's wealth will be the cornerstone of the Obama campaign strategy and he will do everything he can to cast Romney as the villain in this play - the heel who the audience will love to hate.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048392", "text": "He said that the President was at war with the world, which is not true.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048393", "text": "So this is ground zero for housing and to have someone who's just constantly representing things differently than they are and where he is.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048394", "text": "It's gotten harder and harder to make the mortgage, or fill up your gas tank, or even keep the electricity on at the end of the month.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000048395", "text": "It's gotten harder and harder to make the mortgage, or fill up your gas tank, or even keep the electricity on at the end of the month.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000048396", "text": "It's getting harder and harder to make the mortgage, or fill up your gas tank, or even keep the electricity on at the end of the month.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000048397", "text": "That brought the ratio of debt to GDP to more than 100%.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000048398", "text": "Fewer people are working, unemployment remains unacceptably high, and America's security and jobs are threatened by the President's devastating defense cuts.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048399", "text": "We can't wait to bring this war in Iraq to an end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048400", "text": "A renewed sense of confidence will spark renewed investment by American companies.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048401", "text": "Job creation will reduce the number of Americans on welfare, food stamps and unemployment, meanwhile producing revenue for the government to use to reduce deficits and debt.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048402", "text": "We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048403", "text": "The U.S. declined to brand China a currency manipulator, while asking the world's second-largest economy to strengthen the 'significantly undervalued' yuan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048404", "text": "The Treasury Department on Friday once again declined to name China a currency manipulator despite bipartisan calls for action from Congress.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048405", "text": "The administration continues to let China get away with flouting trade rules just for the sake of diplomacy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048406", "text": "Several years ago you described yourself as a 'Jeffersonian populist.'", "issue": "populist"}
{"id": "0000048407", "text": "During his two terms, Owens was committed to improving Colorado's transportation infrastructure, reforming education, and lowering the tax burden for families and businesses.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048408", "text": "His real passion is education - he has chaired or served on many educational institution boards and commissions.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048409", "text": "With both a Masters and a Law Degree, and as a graduate from the United States Air Force Academy, Representative Gardner has brought a wealth of knowledge and experience to the state legislature.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048410", "text": "I thank each member of this impressive group of women for their early support of my campaign and their commitment to bringing necessary change to Washington by strengthening our military, economy and families, said Governor Romney.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048411", "text": "South Carolina has been a leader in attracting investment and improving its business climate.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048412", "text": "He talks about engaging Iran with more diplomatic options, but then says he supports Bush's sanctions against Iran as a path to denuclearization.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048413", "text": "Previously, enemies like Iran have starred in the Huckabee foreign policy narrative as a misguided family member to whom we have petulantly refused to speak.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048414", "text": "The reason that New Hampshire has fared relatively better off in this terrible recession is because we're not a 'tax-happy' state with no income and no sales tax.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048415", "text": "Though described by its sponsors as a measure relating to contraception, there is more to it than that.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000048416", "text": "The drug it authorizes would also terminate life after conception.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000048417", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048418", "text": "Romney's wealth will be the cornerstone of the Obama campaign strategy and he will do everything he can to cast Romney as the villain in this play - the heel who the audience will love to hate.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048419", "text": "We must intensify our diplomatic efforts with China, India, Russia, South Korea, and European states and persuade them to put more economic pressure on Iran.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048420", "text": "Since the Civil War, every president who has been at war has increased taxes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048421", "text": "I supported the president in the war before you did.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048422", "text": "I supported the president in the war before you did.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048423", "text": "His policies have left the middle class struggling with higher unemployment, more debt, and smaller paychecks.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048424", "text": "According to Labor Department figures released late last week, California and Nevada are struggling not just with high unemployment, but also severe under-employment.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048425", "text": "His focus as a city council member has been on combating crime, restoring decency and improving transportation, schools and the environment for the citizens of Jacksonville.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048426", "text": "This decision will be negative for future employment, ' said Marc Schupan, CEO, Schupan & Sons, who provides health insurance of his employees.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000048427", "text": "Romney's wealth will be the cornerstone of the Obama campaign strategy and he will do everything he can to cast Romney as the villain in this play - the heel who the audience will love to hate.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048428", "text": "What's really going on, it's a war on reality by the Democrats.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048429", "text": "If we truly believe in a tax code that values work instead of wealth, then we cannot completely eliminate the estate tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048430", "text": "A key gauge of Midwest manufacturing activity - a sector that helped lead the region out of the recession - has fallen four of the past five months.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048431", "text": "Massachusetts is the cradle of liberalism and Mitt was willing to say No to the liberal agenda.", "issue": "liberalism"}
{"id": "0000048432", "text": "His ruling means the tax is eliminated for all commuters...", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048433", "text": "As president, I will secure the border and reject sanctuary policies by cities, states or the federal government.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048434", "text": "The killing of Osama bin Laden was a landmark in the war on terror for which President Obama deserves credit.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048435", "text": "And the only program he is all too willing to cut is our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048436", "text": "A devoted believer in old-school, big-government liberalism, Mr. Obama had no interest in embracing the welfare reform package that linked welfare to work.", "issue": "liberalism"}
{"id": "0000048437", "text": "As president, he will immediately rescind the Obama HHS memo on welfare, and make clear that work requirements are not optional.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048438", "text": "President Obama's hostility toward job creators has taken many forms.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000048439", "text": "Of course, the President's hostility toward job creators extends well beyond the development of our nations' energy resources.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000048440", "text": "And then, thirdly, on the issue of jobs, this president said that if we passed all the stimulus and bailouts that we'd have unemployment that would stay under 8 percent.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048441", "text": "We can position America to lead on energy in the future without picking winners or stifling the energy sources of today.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048442", "text": "Along with these leaders in agriculture, I will work to ensure that our food supply will remain steady, safe, and affordable for our citizens.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000048443", "text": "Governor Romney understands that agriculture is a key source of strength and stability for our economy, and he is committed to maintaining our country's strong farming heritage.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000048444", "text": "Where the current administration has shown its sympathy for the pro-abortion lobby, Mitt Romney will be a faithful defender of life in all its seasons.", "issue": "lobby"}
{"id": "0000048445", "text": "As governor of California from 1991 to 1999, he led California from the depths of recession to prosperous economic recovery.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048446", "text": "I grew up on a farm and know that success is not the result of government action, but rather individual initiative and hard work.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000048447", "text": "Under his leadership, our soldiers and sailors can come home from war confident that the nation they fought for will fight for them.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048448", "text": "President Obama has achieved his goal of making energy more expensive in this country, said Romney.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048449", "text": "Without extracting meaningful concessions from Russia, he abandoned our missile defense sites in Poland.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048450", "text": "They undercut all those in Russia who are risking so much to struggle for the universal rights that we ourselves enjoy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048451", "text": "We fought a bloody civil war against slavery and it took a nonviolent civil-rights movement to bring political and social equality to all Americans.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048452", "text": "Though described by its sponsors as a measure relating to contraception, there is more to it than that.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000048453", "text": "The drug it authorizes would also terminate life after conception.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000048454", "text": "I understand that my views on laws governing abortion set me in the minority in our Commonwealth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048455", "text": "Well, what we want to do is to transition Afghanistan such that its own military and its own security forces can maintain the sovereignty of their government from an attack from the Taliban.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000048456", "text": "Though described by its sponsors as a measure relating to contraception, there is more to it than that.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000048457", "text": "The drug it authorizes would also terminate life after conception.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000048458", "text": "I understand that my views on laws governing abortion set me in the minority in our Commonwealth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048459", "text": "And in Iran, the ayatollahs continue to move full tilt toward nuclear-weapons capability, all the while promising to annihilate Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048460", "text": "Our military, tested by a decade of war, is facing devastating cuts thanks to the budgetary games played by the White House.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048461", "text": "He dismissed Israel's concerns about Iran as mere noise that he prefers to block out.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048462", "text": "To defend ourselves and our allies, we paid the price in treasure and in soldiers who never came home.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000048463", "text": "I will eliminate the 15 percent tax on capital gains, interest and qualified dividends for taxpayers with annual income below $200, 000.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048464", "text": "President Obama's miserable record of joblessness throughout America is exemplified by decisions he has made, again and again, to thwart job creation in Alaska.", "issue": "joblessness"}
{"id": "0000048465", "text": "This president seems to be at war with success, at war with job creators.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048466", "text": "The former director of the CIA, two-term congressman from Texas in the 1960s, onetime Republican national chairman and first U.S. envoy to mainland China has both magnetic appeal and organizational and leadership talents.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048467", "text": "You go across the country with regards to energy because he has to bow to the most extreme members of the environmental movement.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048468", "text": "When I was governor of my state, the legislature passed a bill saying emergency contraception was going to be provided through Catholic hospitals and other institutions.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000048469", "text": "When I was governor of my state, the legislature passed a bill saying emergency contraception was going to be provided through Catholic hospitals and other institutions.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000048470", "text": "Despite President Obama's claims that his stimulus would lead to unemployment at 6 percent today, it remains above 8 percent.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048471", "text": "I am concerned that repeal of the estate tax would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest- and highest-income taxpayers in the country.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048472", "text": "I am concerned that repeal of the estate tax would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest- and highest-income taxpayers in the country.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048473", "text": "Eliminating the estate tax for millionaires and billionaires and making seniors and the middle-class foot the bill Mitt Romney Would Eliminate The Estate Tax For All Americans.", "issue": "Tax"}
{"id": "0000048474", "text": "It was a little strange for a Republican to be pushing a state sales tax, ' said former Armstrong County commissioner James Scahill, a Republican.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048475", "text": "It's getting harder and harder to make the mortgage, or fill up your gas tank, or even keep the electricity on at the end of the month.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000048476", "text": "Several years ago you described yourself as a 'Jeffersonian populist.'", "issue": "populist"}
{"id": "0000048477", "text": "That brought the ratio of debt to GDP to more than 100%.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000048478", "text": "After 43 straight months of unemployment above 8%, it is clear that President Obama just hasn't lived up to his promises and his policies haven't worked.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048479", "text": "As a result of President Obama's failed economic policies, jobs are down, poverty is up, and household incomes are at their lowest level in decades.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048480", "text": "In pursuit of growth led by exports, China has held the renminbi down in relation to the dollar, rendering its goods artificially cheap in the U.S. market.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048481", "text": "Solyndra boasted about its advanced technology, but now there are suspicions its political connections were at least as important in securing its huge government loan.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048482", "text": "The Supreme Court decision in June upholding the Affordable Care Act leaves in place a tax on medical devices that threatens thousands of American jobs and our global competitiveness.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048483", "text": "Solyndra boasted about its advanced technology, but now there are suspicions its political connections were at least as important in securing its huge government loan.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048484", "text": "For four years, President Obama has waged a war on coal that has devastated the middle class and American workers.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048485", "text": "But to the issue of Iran, as long as I'm president of the United States, Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048486", "text": "The result is that President Obama is not even leading from behind on Iran; he is simply behind.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048487", "text": "While we're seeing American manufacturing rebound, China is stepping up its efforts in a number of critical sectors, including clean and solar energy, advanced manufacturing, and auto parts.'", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048488", "text": "In pursuit of growth led by exports, China has held the renminbi down in relation to the dollar, rendering its goods artificially cheap in the U.S. market.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048489", "text": "The President's decision to let China cheat has cost the nation hundreds of thousands of jobs and his misguided tire tariffs have cost thousands more.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048490", "text": "Adding further to the loss column, China retaliated by imposing antidumping duties on US exports of chicken parts, costing that industry around $1 billion in sales.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048491", "text": "While we're seeing American manufacturing rebound, China is stepping up its efforts in a number of critical sectors, including clean and solar energy, advanced manufacturing, and auto parts.'", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048492", "text": "The administration continues to let China get away with flouting trade rules just for the sake of diplomacy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048493", "text": "The addition of a hugely expensive prescription drug benefit that provides limited coverage and does nothing to control the cost of drugs has only made the problem worse.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000048494", "text": "Governor Romney is a strong believer in free trade and opening foreign markets to American products.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048495", "text": "We cannot afford to fall behind as China and others cut deals that hurt American exports and jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048496", "text": "In a democracy, no issues are more important than those pertaining to national security.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048497", "text": "He singled out China as an offender, and committed to confronting it over its continued flouting of international commitments.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048498", "text": "Today, at the Tampa Port Authority, Mitt Romney discussed the important role that free trade must play in strengthening both America's economy and its alliances throughout the Western Hemisphere.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048499", "text": "Several years ago you described yourself as a 'Jeffersonian populist.'", "issue": "populist"}
{"id": "0000048500", "text": "We will support those yearning for democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048501", "text": "We will support those yearning for democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048502", "text": "Governor Romney believes we must engage Russia in a frank and open discussion about the serious and disturbing turn of events in their country.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048503", "text": "Until there are indications that high level engagement would do anything other than reward bad behavior, the United States should not engage Iran in direct, bilateral negotiations over their nuclear weapons program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048504", "text": "Ensuring that the United States has a stable supply of energy is key to our economic and national security.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048505", "text": "At this time of war, her action stands as one of the most partisan, divisive, and ill-considered of any national leader in this decade.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048506", "text": "Its policies would favor expansion of free trade and investment.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048507", "text": "But the integration, sustainability, and breadth of this war against violent Jihad must now take on a new dimension.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048508", "text": "Flexible labor laws allow states to attract trade and industry to their cities and towns and because of this, good, high paying jobs follow.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048509", "text": "The addition of a hugely expensive prescription drug benefit that provides limited coverage and does nothing to control the cost of drugs has only made the problem worse.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000048510", "text": "A January 2010 Associated Press analysis of Recovery Act spending on roads and bridges 'had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, ' regardless of how many dollars lawmakers threw at the various projects.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048511", "text": "A January 2010 Associated Press analysis of Recovery Act spending on roads and bridges 'had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, ' regardless of how many dollars lawmakers threw at the various projects.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048512", "text": "You mean types of energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048513", "text": "The device tax is supposed to raise $28.5 billion from 2013 to 2022, and it is especially harmful because it applies to gross sales, not profits.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048514", "text": "When President Obama first took office, he promised that his stimulus would help rescue the economy.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048515", "text": "A January 2010 Associated Press analysis of Recovery Act spending on roads and bridges 'had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, ' regardless of how many dollars lawmakers threw at the various projects.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048516", "text": "I think we've got to invest in education and training.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048517", "text": "He's waged a job-destroying war on coal, while impeding other domestic sources of energy production.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048518", "text": "By giving $535 million in taxpayer money to one company, the Obama administration has reduced the pool of investment that would have been available to several startups.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048519", "text": "It's getting harder and harder to make the mortgage, or fill up your gas tank, or even keep the electricity on at the end of the month.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000048520", "text": "It's getting harder and harder to make the mortgage, or fill up your gas tank, or even keep the electricity on at the end of the month.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000048521", "text": "We believe in a strong military, a strong economy, and in strong families and values.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048522", "text": "Instead of working to strengthen NATO, the Obama administration has taken actions that will only undermine the alliance.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000048523", "text": "With the United States on a path to a hollow military, we are hardly in a position to exercise leadership in persuading our allies to spend more on security.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048524", "text": "McCain, who chairs the powerful commerce committee, has a curious hostility toward America's most important manufacturing industry, one that accounts directly and indirectly for roughly one in seven jobs nationwide.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000048525", "text": "Where I stand on abortion is, I oppose it.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048526", "text": "I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048527", "text": "The compromise, melded into House Bill 1548, would provide for raised the state tax on diesel fuel 3 cents per gallon and the tax on gasoline 3 cents.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048528", "text": "Although a tax increase is in the bond plan, voter approval of the bonds did not raise or lower any tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048529", "text": "Methamphetamine makers could shorten their mandatory time in prison with good behavior under legislation approved Tuesday by the Arkansas House.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000048530", "text": "The EPA has estimated what the McCain energy tax would mean to consumers.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048531", "text": "Those who needed more energy could theoretically buy credits from those who could make do with less.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048532", "text": "Our policy of issuing threats and relying on intermediaries to curb Iran's nuclear program, sponsorship of terrorism, and regional aggression is failing.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048533", "text": "Tragically, many have come to associate this with war, torture, and forcibly imposed regime change.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048534", "text": "In considering the issue of embryo cloning and embryo farming, I saw where the harsh logic of abortion can lead to the view of innocent new life as nothing more than research material or a commodity to be exploited.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048535", "text": "I am concerned that repeal of the estate tax would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest- and highest-income taxpayers in the country.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048536", "text": "The EPA has estimated what the McCain energy tax would mean to consumers.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048537", "text": "As the rest of the nation has benefited from a strong economy, Michigan has endured a one-state recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048538", "text": "Governor Romney supports free trade but believes that trade must be fair.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048539", "text": "We cannot afford to fall behind as China and others cut deals that hurt American exports and jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048540", "text": "Trade is among our most powerful tools for American engagement and leading change.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000048541", "text": "We cannot afford to fall behind as China and others cuts deals that hurt American exports and jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048542", "text": "Barack Obama put in place a massive governmental takeover of this vital sector of our economy.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000048543", "text": "Instead of playing politics with our military, he will strengthen our defense posture by reversing the President's devastating defense cuts.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048544", "text": "He runs his family farm, and has previously been actively involved in the Iowa Farm Bureau organization.", "issue": "Farm"}
{"id": "0000048545", "text": "We believe in a strong military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048546", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048547", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048548", "text": "We should be tightening our sanctions against Iran, not welcoming him to the world stage and I've called on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to withdraw that invitation.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048549", "text": "Iran has not been implicated in the attacks, but it has been called a major sponsor of terrorism, in part because of its support for anti-Israeli groups, Hamas and Hezbollah, which the United States considers terrorist organizations.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048550", "text": "The US government also accuses Iran of fomenting chaos in Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048551", "text": "It said that in Iran, where Shiite Islam is the state religion, people were tortured and harassed and religious minorities were persecuted while Khatami was president from 1997 to 2005.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048552", "text": "We should be tightening our sanctions against Iran, not welcoming him to the world stage and I have called on the Secretary General of the United Nations to withdraw that invitation.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048553", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048554", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048555", "text": "He will permanently eliminate the death tax, roll back tax rates across the board and make savings tax free for middle class Americans.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048556", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048557", "text": "Methamphetamine makers could shorten their mandatory time in prison with good behavior under legislation approved Tuesday by the Arkansas House.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000048558", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048559", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048560", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048561", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048562", "text": "McCain opposes repeal of the death tax, and voted against the Bush tax cuts twice.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048563", "text": "McCain opposes repeal of the death tax, and voted against the Bush tax cuts twice.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048564", "text": "We're going to invest in technology and research to make sure that American goods are pushing into other markets.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048565", "text": "We're going to invest in technology and research to make sure that American goods are pushing into other markets.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048566", "text": "In my view, we need more men and women in our military, better armaments, and a strategic defense initiative.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048567", "text": "And that threat would take on an entirely new dimension if Iran were allowed to become a nuclear power.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048568", "text": "With his proven experience running businesses and institutions, Governor Romney will bring his energy to changing Washington.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048569", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048570", "text": "As President, Governor Romney will work to secure our border, reform our immigration system and fight sanctuary policies.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048571", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048572", "text": "I fought for abstinence education in our schools.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048573", "text": "If businesses are faced with these possibilities, we'll do nothing but eliminate employment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000048574", "text": "Our country does not benefit by our depriving young people of an education, ' Pelosi said.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048575", "text": "This would eventually require raising the payroll tax to 18% or 20% from today's 15% to pay benefits to tomorrow's retirees.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048576", "text": "Stubbornly high unemployment and anxiety about the economy took a toll on top U.S. retailers' sales in June, raising concerns that shoppers are penny-pinching ahead of the back-to-school season.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048577", "text": "Housing is a vital part of the American economy and it has played an instrumental role in leading the country out of past recessions.", "issue": "Housing"}
{"id": "0000048578", "text": "Additionally, recent aggressive statements by the regime in Iran remind us of the critical importance of protecting the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, a job shouldered primarily by our Navy.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048579", "text": "While national security remains a crucial concern in light of the war on terror, lawmakers should pass a guest-worker program that includes amnesty for some illegal workers now in the United States...", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048580", "text": "Since the Civil War, every president who has been at war has increased taxes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048581", "text": "The EPA has estimated what the McCain energy tax would mean to consumers.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048582", "text": "Since the Civil War, every president who has been at war has increased taxes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048583", "text": "Since the month after the recession, we actually have a decline in manufacturing which is particularly important for us in Ohio.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048584", "text": "President Obama's failed economic policies have left millions of Hispanics unemployed and in poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048585", "text": "The consequence of the economy falling into a recession is one which can be calculated in large numbers for the government, but in very important, heartfelt changes for the families of America, and preventing recession is an important responsibility of government.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048586", "text": "We believe in a strong military, a strong economy, and in strong families and values.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048587", "text": "The result is that President Obama is not even leading from behind on Iran; he is simply behind.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048588", "text": "Romney's consistent position through this campaign, and the last, and as far back as 2005, is that he opposes abortion except in cases when the life of the mother is in danger, and in cases of rape and incest.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048589", "text": "These steps will unleash significant domestic investment, attract more foreign investment, and make the U.S. economy competitive with others around the globe.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048590", "text": "Our results indicate that by lowering tax rates on investment and labor, the Romney tax plan would grow the economy by 7.4 percent, the capital stock by almost 19 percent, wages by almost 5 percent, and hours worked by 3 percent.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048591", "text": "As president, I will secure the border and reject sanctuary policies by cities, states or the federal government.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048592", "text": "President Barack Obama reached out to Iran on Friday -- the start of the Iranian New Year -- in a video message offering 'the promise of a new beginning' that is 'grounded in mutual respect.'", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048593", "text": "The result is that President Obama is not even leading from behind on Iran; he is simply behind.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048594", "text": "Belief in the possibility of a depression similar to one in the 1930s is at its highest level this year but is below results measured in 2011.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000048595", "text": "Unemployment rose in June in six of 10 battleground states that could play a pivotal role in the presidential election, reflecting job cuts in some cases and weak payroll growth in others.", "issue": "Unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048596", "text": "In pursuit of growth led by exports, China has held the renminbi down in relation to the dollar, rendering its goods artificially cheap in the U.S. market.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048597", "text": "While we're seeing American manufacturing rebound, China is stepping up its efforts in a number of critical sectors, including clean and solar energy, advanced manufacturing, and auto parts.'", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048598", "text": "The administration continues to let China get away with flouting trade rules just for the sake of diplomacy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048599", "text": "We should raise the bar in education by setting high standards for our schools, insisting on accountability, and treating teaching as a true profession.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048600", "text": "We cannot afford to fall behind as China and others cuts deals that hurt American exports and jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048601", "text": "Governor Romney is a strong believer in free trade and opening foreign markets to American products.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048602", "text": "We should raise the bar in education by setting high standards for our schools, insisting on accountability, and treating teaching as a true profession.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048603", "text": "There is a war being waged by the terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048604", "text": "And as long as we have a Republican president, we're going to have a war on terrorists.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048605", "text": "In all, one of out every three jobs in the state is tied to trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048606", "text": "We cannot afford to fall behind as China and others cut deals that hurt American exports and jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048607", "text": "Trade has become a critical part of Iowa's economy.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000048608", "text": "In total, 348, 578 jobs are supported by international trade and over 2, 500 companies in Iowa exported products.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048609", "text": "We cannot afford to fall behind as China and others cut deals that hurt American exports and jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048610", "text": "We cannot afford to fall behind as China and others cut deals that hurt American exports and jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048611", "text": "He will oppose taxpayer-funded abortion, partial-birth abortion, abortion in military clinics and funding of abortion in international aid programs.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048612", "text": "As the recent Supreme Court decision on partial-birth abortion demonstrates, judges can have an enormous impact on our leaders' abilities to pursue pro-life policies.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048613", "text": "As President, Governor Romney will oppose taxpayer-funded abortion, partial-birth abortion, abortion in military clinics and funding of abortion in international aid programs.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048614", "text": "Or you could have the border with Turkey destabilized by the Kurds, and as a result you could have regional conflict develop.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048615", "text": "The voice of the people is loud and clear - secure the border, enforce the law and no special deal for permanent residency or citizenship for illegals.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048616", "text": "We believe in a strong military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048617", "text": "Forty percent of likely Republican caucusgoers identified terrorism as extremely important in the Register's May Iowa Poll.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048618", "text": "He will oppose taxpayer-funded abortion, partial-birth abortion, abortion in military clinics and funding of abortion in international aid programs.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048619", "text": "He will oppose taxpayer-funded abortion, partial-birth abortion, abortion in military clinics and funding of abortion in international aid programs.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048620", "text": "He will oppose taxpayer-funded abortion, partial-birth abortion, abortion in military clinics and funding of abortion in international aid programs.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048621", "text": "Our economy needs pro-growth stimulus, but Governor Romney believes any stimulus package should return money to American taxpayers, not increase already out-of-control government spending.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000048622", "text": "Entrepreneurs and small businesses, such as S corps and LLCs, which often face cash flow difficulties, will benefit greatly by the reduced cost of investment in equipment under this plan.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048623", "text": "He opposes abortion and embryonic-destructive stem cell research, and will pursue a pro-life agenda.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048624", "text": "How is the American family made stronger? ... With healthcare that is affordable and portable.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000048625", "text": "He will oppose taxpayer-funded abortion, partial-birth abortion, abortion in military clinics and funding of abortion in international aid programs.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048626", "text": "On the issue of education, Romney renewed his call for a package of bills he sent to the Legislature last fall.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048627", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048628", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048629", "text": "You have got to make sure we secure our border, that's first.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048630", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048631", "text": "The governor also wants to make changes in welfare to bring Massachusetts into line with new federal requirements, under which recipients must work at least 24 hours per week.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048632", "text": "All of this will raise costs, leading to more unemployment.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048633", "text": "At this time of war, her action stands as one of the most partisan, divisive, and ill-considered of any national leader in this decade.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048634", "text": "President Obama has turned our economy upside down with his hostility to small businesses and job creators.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000048635", "text": "But I think they look high because there's a recession, ' said.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048636", "text": "After pledging three years ago to not raise taxes in a recession, President Obama is hitting the campaign trail to push for one of the largest tax hikes in history.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000048637", "text": "In addition to the headline reform efforts, regulators of other government agencies are also broadening rulemaking efforts in areas of employment and the environment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000048638", "text": "While we're seeing American manufacturing rebound, China is stepping up its efforts in a number of critical sectors, including clean and solar energy, advanced manufacturing, and auto parts.'", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048639", "text": "The administration continues to let China get away with flouting trade rules just for the sake of diplomacy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048640", "text": "Since the Civil War, every president who has been at war has increased taxes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048641", "text": "But because President Obama insisted on pursuing his naive engagement policy, Iran gained valuable time to advance its nuclear weapons program free from further sanctions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048642", "text": "Iran had gone from zero centrifuges spinning to thousands, without facing broad pushback from the world.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048643", "text": "It would unify Iran against Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048644", "text": "The U.S. military is facing nearly $1 trillion in cuts over the next ten years.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048645", "text": "After nearly four years in office, the President has left families struggling with unemployment on the rise in cities across the country and an economy stuck in neutral.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048646", "text": "As we face growing international competition, especially from China, Governor Romney knows how to keep jobs in America.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048647", "text": "The Vice President has taken an irresponsible approach to China, even endorsing the unconscionable one-child policy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048648", "text": "Mitt Romney will never back down to anyone - including China - and will fight for jobs and American values.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048649", "text": "But as I was talking to some of your leaders, you share a similar concern here in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048650", "text": "Commerce Department data released Thursday show business investment stalled in September, as orders for core capital goods such as machinery and equipment plateaued at $60.3 billion.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048651", "text": "The problem that we've got with China is not that we couldn't work out a deal in which they are benefiting and we are benefiting.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048652", "text": "While we're seeing American manufacturing rebound, China is stepping up its efforts in a number of critical sectors, including clean and solar energy, advanced manufacturing, and auto parts.'", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048653", "text": "In pursuit of growth led by exports, China has held the renminbi down in relation to the dollar, rendering its goods artificially cheap in the U.S. market.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048654", "text": "The problem that we've got with China is not that we couldn't work out a deal in which they are benefiting and we are benefiting.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048655", "text": "While we're seeing American manufacturing rebound, China is stepping up its efforts in a number of critical sectors, including clean and solar energy, advanced manufacturing, and auto parts.'", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048656", "text": "In pursuit of growth led by exports, China has held the renminbi down in relation to the dollar, rendering its goods artificially cheap in the U.S. market.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048657", "text": "While we're seeing American manufacturing rebound, China is stepping up its efforts in a number of critical sectors, including clean and solar energy, advanced manufacturing, and auto parts.'", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048658", "text": "In pursuit of growth led by exports, China has held the renminbi down in relation to the dollar, rendering its goods artificially cheap in the U.S. market.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048659", "text": "In pursuit of growth led by exports, China has held the renminbi down in relation to the dollar, rendering its goods artificially cheap in the U.S. market.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048660", "text": "The study, commissioned by Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions , included traditional welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, Pell grants and 80 other federal programs but excluded veterans assistance programs.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048661", "text": "This week alone, industrial production plummeted, poverty remained stuck at record levels, and families continued to struggle with fewer jobs and higher costs.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048662", "text": "Stubbornly high unemployment and anxiety about the economy took a toll on top U.S. retailers' sales in June, raising concerns that shoppers are penny-pinching ahead of the back-to-school season.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048663", "text": "Romney's wealth will be the cornerstone of the Obama campaign strategy and he will do everything he can to cast Romney as the villain in this play - the heel who the audience will love to hate.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048664", "text": "Outsider Appeal, National Review's The Corner , Paul's argument that the threat from Iran is overstated was a high, hanging curve, and it was a solid hit from Romney.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048665", "text": "Mitt Romney is asked whether the war in Iraq was worth the sacrifice and effort.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048666", "text": "I figured she was going to put a tax on the debate before it was finished.'", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048667", "text": "With a hugely unpopular- not to mention cruel - income tax on voters struggling under soaring home foreclosure and unemployment rates, Democrats have changed the subject in Michigan from war to taxes.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048668", "text": "The nation's health care system can be overhauled through market-based proposals tailored to individual states - not through a federal government takeover, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000048669", "text": "On Wednesday night, Mitt Romney attempted a hostile takeover of the presidential campaign ... dominating President Obama.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000048670", "text": "Like George W. Bush and other compassionate conservatives, he was naively obsessed with affordable housing for low-income potential home buyers, a mismanaged cause that led to billions in loan defaults and which the IRS called a scam.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048671", "text": "Others ponder that only one veteran of the armed forces - Ron Paul - will be on the ballot in Virginia, a state so steeped in military tradition.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048672", "text": "Massie is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and was the first Iowa legislator to endorse Dr. Paul for the Republican nomination.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048673", "text": "Lastly on Gingrich, he supported TARP - a transfer of overseas wealth to several large U.S. financial institutions.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048674", "text": "As a veteran I took an oath to protect our Constitution.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048675", "text": "An all-time record 6.7 percent of Americans, a staggering 20.5 million people, suffer deep poverty, defined in 2010 as earning $5, 570 or less or just $11, 157 for a family of four.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048676", "text": "Massie is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and was the first Iowa legislator to endorse Dr. Paul for the Republican nomination.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048677", "text": "Two-tour Iraq veteran of the U.S. Army, Abe Elam of Douds spent eleven years in the Army and 27 months of those years on the battlefield as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000048678", "text": "I am a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom with two tours, spanning 27 months and I can honestly say from the bottom of my heart that Dr. Paul cares deeply for America and its sons and daughters who fight for her.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048679", "text": "Authentic, Constitutionally-sound national security - a strong national defense - begins with guarding our borders and not the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000048680", "text": "In addition to the support veterans give Dr. Paul, the congressman also receives more donations from active-duty military than the rest of the field combined, according to an independent analysis.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048681", "text": "With combined service in both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Coast Guard, John A. Jeskevicius spent 10 years in the military before settling in Manchester.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048682", "text": "Unlike most of the other candidates, Dr. Paul served as an officer in the military and he understands the risks we take by putting on the uniform.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048683", "text": "Perry explained, As a veteran who served honorably in the United States Army, I am supporting Ron Paul.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048684", "text": "Iran struck two secret deals with the IAEA, the international body responsible for overseeing compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048685", "text": "And leading experts say that Iran could easily move a small plant of advanced centrifuges without a trace.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048686", "text": "The process for reimposing sanctions in the event of a violation by Iran is determined by a commission in which Washington relies on Europe to vote with it.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048687", "text": "What's more, the deal allows Iran to break off the agreement in response to any new sanctions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048688", "text": "This ensures that Iran will have an industrial-size enrichment capability after the deal concludes, putting Iran on the threshold of a nuclear weapons capability.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048689", "text": "As president, I will also make career and vocational education more widespread and accessible.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048690", "text": "It is critical for Northeast Iowa Republicans to support a consistent advocate of agriculture like Marco Rubio, said Zach Boss of Buchanan County.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000048691", "text": "And that basically means a 16 percent withholding tax on the wages and salaries of all American workers.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048692", "text": "First of all, you are kind of interfering with one of the principal sources of local government levels and State governments in their use of the sales tax, since the Federal Government had so-you might say, confiscated the area of the income tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048693", "text": "He has defined the right strategy to deal with China, and Marco's New American Century is exactly the vision our party and country needs for the 21st century.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048694", "text": "The plan, which offers federal incentives to states which guarantee their students a debt-free education, is hideously complex.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048695", "text": "Senator Marco Rubio proposed some very specific ideas on higher education that deserve serious consideration. . ..", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048696", "text": "Two of our nation's most senior military leaders - the Commandant of the Marine Corps General Robert Neller and the Chief of Staff of the Army General Mark Milley - have recently recommended that all eligible women now be required to register with the Selective Service System.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000048697", "text": "Marco has talked about the importance of supporting vocational education and college alternatives on the campaign trail, and his record on the issue stretches back to his time in the Florida House", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048698", "text": "Marco's plans to strengthen the military will ensure that our servicemembers will go into battle with the best training and equipment we can offer.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048699", "text": "Marco will get government out of the way of agriculture so that American farmers and ranchers can build their businesses, compete as exporters, and create jobs.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000048700", "text": "After years of negotiations and repeated concessions, the Obama administration has now concluded an agreement that leaves Iran, the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism, as a nuclear threshold state.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048701", "text": "If I am elected President I will abrogate this dangerous agreement and force Iran to permanently end its nuclear ambitions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048702", "text": "Iran would be forced to stop subverting its neighbors and threatening Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048703", "text": "Iran's economy continues to suffer from inflation and unemployment while rampant corruption plagues the state at all levels.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000048704", "text": "I am disturbed by how the administration has missed an opportunity to make the freedom of these Americans a priority in your negotiations with Iran, Mr. Rubio wrote.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048705", "text": "In 2013, China consumed $4.2 billion of goods and services produced in this state - more than any other country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048706", "text": "The Chinese government's efforts to devalue its currency and rig global trade are a rising threat to our economic interests.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048707", "text": "China aims to make it so costly and difficult for America to get involved in the region that we won't bother.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048708", "text": "In short, China is doing everything it can to make the 21st century a Chinese Century.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048709", "text": "President Obama has hoped that being more open to China would make them a more responsible nation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048710", "text": "When I am president, instead of inviting China to military exercises, we will conduct joint freedom of navigation patrols with our partners in East and Southeast Asia to challenge any attempts to close off international waters or airspace.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048711", "text": "Promoting democracy around China is an important way to promote democracy within China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048712", "text": "Until recently, China has experienced impressive economic growth by copying parts of the capitalist economic model and enjoying the stability afforded by U.S. power.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048713", "text": "Our third goal in relation to China concerns not just what we do, but who we are.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048714", "text": "Since the Iran deal was concluded, Iran has detained more Americans.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048715", "text": "In recent weeks, Iran launched cyber attacks against senior American officials and last month it conducted a ballistic missile test in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048716", "text": "The United States and its allies will not be safe until Iran dismantles its nuclear program and allows intrusive inspections - the anytime, anywhere inspections the Obama administration repeatedly promised before caving to Tehran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048717", "text": "And, finally, Iran must cease threatening its neighbors and promoting terrorism.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048718", "text": "Unlike the current administration, my administration will not treat Iran as a legitimate state while it acts like a terror state.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048719", "text": "While other candidates voted to cut defense spending, Marco has always supported our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048720", "text": "I think he's right on terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048721", "text": "Under Marco's comprehensive, detailed plan to rebuild our military, America will be ready to face a growing set of challenges and ensure that our country is safe and prosperous.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048722", "text": "America cannot fight terrorism from a courtroom.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000048723", "text": "Marco will make it a priority to rebuild our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048724", "text": "In Idaho, our constitution requires state government to live within its means by spending no more than it takes in.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000048725", "text": "So to restore American Strength, my first priority will be to adequately fund our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048726", "text": "Just as Reagan never flinched in his criticisms of the Soviet Union's political and economic repressions, we must never shy away from demanding that China allow true freedom for its 1.3 billion people.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048727", "text": "Yet despite its importance, our outdated government continues to make energy one of the most politicized and regulated aspects of our economy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048728", "text": "Ever since then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton announced a reset of relations with Russia in 2009, the consequences of six years of failed U.S. policy toward Russia have played out in the annexation of Crimea and the battlefields of eastern Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048729", "text": "Time and again, Russia has defended Assad at the United Nations and prevented meaningful actions to hasten the end of the conflict.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048730", "text": "Yet despite that serious conversation, in recent weeks Russia, which already has a naval base in the Syrian port city of Tartus, has been building up its military forces in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000048731", "text": "Despite a flurry of desperate telephone calls from several Obama-administration officials to their Russian counterparts, Putin, perhaps hoping to distract attention from the continued chaos in eastern Ukraine, has not suspended Russia's buildup in Syria.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000048732", "text": "As for Russia, we need to recognize that the reset has failed and that the U.S. must confront Putin's assault on international security.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048733", "text": "If Russia does not halt and reverse its military buildup in Syria, the U.S. should sanction the Russian defense companies and the individuals involved.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000048734", "text": "Corruption is Putin's greatest export, but it is not the only problem we face from his rule.", "issue": "Corruption"}
{"id": "0000048735", "text": "This latest incident with Turkey should also renew conversations within the alliance about whether NATO as an institution should be involved in the response to the terrorist attacks on Paris and the broader fight against ISIS.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000048736", "text": "The civil war in Syria has threatened the security of Turkey for years and now the fallout from this conflict has spilled over to threaten all NATO allies on both sides of the Atlantic.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048737", "text": "Our military will never again doubt their Commander-in-Chief's support for their mission, nor will they question America's commitment to winning.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048738", "text": "He promised to rebuild our military, revive our economy, and restore our sense of purpose.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048739", "text": "Under Barack Obama's presidency, our military has faced neglect and disdain, as our weapons systems have been cut and our military leaders ignored.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000048740", "text": "And the truth is if by privilege they mean wealth and power, that's true.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048741", "text": "Rapid advances in technology have replaced old jobs with new ones, and globalization has forced us into competition with dozens of other nations for jobs and innovation.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048742", "text": "Look at the deal with Iran, which is basically just a series of concessions to an enemy of the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048743", "text": "To help more of our people achieve the American Dream, we need to make affordable, quality healthcare accessible in the 21st century.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000048744", "text": "That's all after he made fun of disabled people, said China was too soft on dissidents, demeaned women, and insulted war heroes.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048745", "text": "First, I will tear up the terrible nuclear deal with Iran started by Hillary Clinton and signed by President Obama.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048746", "text": "Iran has already entered the fight on behalf of the al-Maliki government in Baghdad.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048747", "text": "But if we delegate this problem to Iran, we are likely to see the creation of a Shiite rump state that would effectively become an Iranian proxy and extend Iran's reach and influence from the Gulf of Oman to the Mediterranean Sea.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048748", "text": "Third, as ISIS has gained ground in Iraq, its wealth and ability to make money have increased.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048749", "text": "It allows the immediate expensing of business investment, a longtime conservative priority for tax reform that would boost economic growth and investment and help businesses large and small.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048750", "text": "On Syria, Cruz inveighed against Rubio and Clinton for supporting a no-fly zone and arming 'the so-called moderate rebels.'", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000048751", "text": "As a retired Army veteran wounded in Afghanistan, I have seen countless examples of true leadership and commitment to those who have served our nation in uniform.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000048752", "text": "They shrug off the rising importance of trade and foreign policy on our household budgets.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048753", "text": "No candidate who supports this tax can claim to be in favor of abolishing the IRS.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048754", "text": "Other Republicans running for president support an Internet sales tax that could subject businesses to audit from almost 10, 000 jurisdictions around the country.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048755", "text": "I will immediately shred this president's disastrous deal with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048756", "text": "I've proposed crushing sanctions on Iran for its ongoing support for terrorism and human rights abuses.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048757", "text": "One is rogue states like North Korea and Iran, who either have acquired or are on the verge of acquiring a nuclear capability that could eventually reach the United States.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000048758", "text": "And the third are state actors like China and Russia, who in different ways are trying to crowd America out and our influence.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048759", "text": "And then the cynicism, the cynicism tonight to spend a significant amount of time talking about discrimination against Muslims.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048760", "text": "When the Libyan people rose up against Moammar Qaddafi, a brutal dictator with a history of supporting terrorism against the U.S. and Israel and horrific abuses against his own countrymen, the country was dissolving into civil war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048761", "text": "The administration is complicating matters with phony multilateralism, This idea that we're turning this over to NATO is quite frankly humorous.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000048762", "text": "He later opposed normalized trade with China and other international trade pacts that she supported.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048763", "text": "He fought and she backed normalized trade with China and other international trade pacts.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048764", "text": "I understand that issues such as abortion and gay marriage are very important to you and that we disagree on those issues.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000048765", "text": "To address youth unemployment, he has introduced legislation with Rep. John Conyers to provide $5.5 billion for states and local governments to employ 1 million youth from ages 16 to 24 years old.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048766", "text": "Normalized trade relations with China which led to the loss of 3.2 million jobs including 122, 600 in Pennsylvania.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048767", "text": "On foreign policy, Sanders contrasted his vote against the war in Iraq with Clinton's support for the 2002 invasion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048768", "text": "I think it's a good investment, Sanders said.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048769", "text": "In his fiery speech, Sanders pledged to address gaps in wealth and income inequality that are greater than at any time since the Great Depression.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048770", "text": "Sanders' proposals for improving health care, raising the minimum wage and making higher education tuition-free also were cited by the Democratic National Committee member and former Maine Senate majority leader.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048771", "text": "He also noted that Clinton promoted the dangerous technology around the world when she was secretary of state.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048772", "text": "The pollution from fracking causes nausea, nosebleeds, headaches and high rates of asthma and other respiratory illness.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048773", "text": "He also called for a major investment in rebuilding roads and bridges to create jobs.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048774", "text": "Bernie Sanders on Wednesday detailed proposals to reduce poverty in the United States and he attributed the increase in part to a 1996 welfare reform bill which he opposed at the time as an assault on the poor, women and children, minorities and immigrants.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048775", "text": "Permanent normal trade relations with China put another 80, 000 Michigan workers out of jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048776", "text": "No city in the United States has been more devastated by unfettered free trade than Flint, Michigan.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048777", "text": "For too long in this country politicians have used getting tough on crime as a wedge issue to win elections.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048778", "text": "This country has experienced racism for hundreds of years.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000048779", "text": "She doesn't support a carbon tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048780", "text": "Sanders also chided Clinton for supporting the soda tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048781", "text": "On the major foreign policy issue of the era, however, she voted for the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048782", "text": "He supported President Obama's overture to Iran which resulted in an agreement with world powers to stop Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048783", "text": "The Vermont senator also fielded questions about dilapidated housing and the health consequences of pesticide exposure and groundwater contamination.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048784", "text": "When we have so many of our young people in jail, to me it makes sense that we invest more in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration, Sanders said.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000048785", "text": "To address youth unemployment, he recently filed legislation with Rep. John Conyers to provide $5.5 billion for states and local governments to employ 1 million youth from ages 16 to 24 years old.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000048786", "text": "Carol Ammons became the first African-American woman to win election in her district of the Illinois State Legislature, scoring an upset election victory against a well-funded establishment opponent.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000048787", "text": "He opposes deportation of children who fled to the United States from violence in Central America.", "issue": "deportation"}
{"id": "0000048788", "text": "As a result of the disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United, the American political system has been totally corrupted and the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048789", "text": "Under the senator's proposal, people in states which legalize marijuana no longer would be subject to federal prosecution for using pot.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000048790", "text": "As president of the United States, Sanders told the North Charleston audience, nobody will fight harder to end institutional racism and to reform our broken criminal justice system.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000048791", "text": "Addressing the centerpiece of his campaign, Sanders said that our country today has more wealth and income inequality than any other major country on earth.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048792", "text": "I would like you to force discussion of poverty in America.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048793", "text": "In Syria, Sanders called for a negotiated settlement to the long civil war.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000048794", "text": "We all agree that Iran must not get a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048795", "text": "Normalized trade relations with China led to the loss of 3.2 million jobs including 122, 600 in Pennsylvania.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048796", "text": "Sanders' campaign is hammering home the case on trade in new television ads which began to air on Friday in North Carolina and Illinois, another trade-battered state with shuttered factories and mills.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048797", "text": "We are talking about the United States having more wealth and income inequality than any other major country on earth and we are going to change that.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048798", "text": "At a grade school in a town that also hosts a state penitentiary, the senator moderated a panel that featured two former prisoners.", "issue": "penitentiary"}
{"id": "0000048799", "text": "During a discussion about a proposed deal to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, Sanders wrote, War, war, war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048800", "text": "Donohue reasoned that Clinton switched her position on trade because Sanders led the opposition to the agreement in Congress.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048801", "text": "Yet there I sat, making the case Iran poses the greatest threat to our security.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048802", "text": "I said 'Iran' because they have been at war with America since 1979.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048803", "text": "Iran has been a leading funder of Hezbollah - who is the provider of the most deadly weapon used against our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, Improvised Explosive Devices or I.E.D's - and complicit in the training of al-Qaeda.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048804", "text": "Reason being, mutually assured destruction worked to keep the cold war cold.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048805", "text": "Russia was an atheistic enemy who didn't believe in an afterlife.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048806", "text": "President Obama naively and cavalierly once declared Iran as a tiny country that did not pose a serious threat.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048807", "text": "Reports now show that Iran has been building alliances in our hemisphere with countries like Venezuela, through which it has been funding and supporting terrorist groups like Hezbollah.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048808", "text": "The admission of loyal members from the States now excluded from Congress, by allaying doubt and apprehension, would turn capital now awaiting an opportunity for investment into the channels of trade and industry.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048809", "text": "We will protect our critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000048810", "text": "He has rationalized the use of domestic, civilian surveillance with a flimsy claim that he has such authority because we are at war.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000048811", "text": "And the need to make sure Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000048812", "text": "These National Guard members are not involved in direct law enforcement activities; instead, they are providing help with surveillance, construction, and logistics.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000048813", "text": "Respectfully referred to the General of the Army to give the necessary orders in this case and to furnish this Department a copy for the information of the Secretary of the Treasury.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000048814", "text": "In our struggle against disease, great advances have been made, but the battle is far from won.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000048815", "text": "Provide services for a variety of diseases--heart disease, cancer, stroke, and other major illnesses.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000048816", "text": "The pollution of our environment is assuming such important proportion I shall shortly send to the Congress a special message dealing with this challenge.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048817", "text": "Because we have the means to conquer hunger, we can wage an unconditional war on poverty--and win it.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048818", "text": "Enough food is left over to fight hunger among free people all around the globe.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048819", "text": "They leave too few resources to support education, health and other public services essential to development of the talent, skills, and earning power of the people.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048820", "text": "A 10% average increase in disability compensation and enlarged benefits for surviving children and dependent parents of those who died as a result of a service-connected injury.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000048821", "text": "Sixth, to make certain that no veteran's pension will be reduced as a result of increases in Federal retirement benefits, such as social security.", "issue": "pension"}
{"id": "0000048822", "text": "But, because of certain gaps in the law, today's veteran, his family and his children are ineligible for a number of benefits other war veterans receive.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048823", "text": "For each month the veteran pursues a high school education under the G.I. Bill, he loses a month of eligibility for college benefits under the law.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048824", "text": "In accord with the present scale of benefits, a married veteran with children receives $150 monthly under the G.I. Bill, regardless of the number of children he has.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048825", "text": "The legislation I have proposed above primarily reflects the public concern for the welfare of veterans of the Vietnam conflict.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048826", "text": "The laws now governing Federal civilian employment in overseas areas have not kept pace with the times.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000048827", "text": "It is to be subjected to the hostility or indifference of society, without redress.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000048828", "text": "With low-rent housing in short supply, it is more important than ever to stimulate construction by private enterprise and nonprofit organizations.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048829", "text": "But like disease, war and famine, it gained nothing in acceptability because it was prevalent.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000048830", "text": "Poverty denies to most of those born into it a fair chance to be themselves, to be happy in life.", "issue": "Poverty"}
{"id": "0000048831", "text": "Indeed, in order to be fully effective, education programs, health programs, the programs of the war on poverty, and many other activities require complementary efforts to promote sound economic conditions and the proper physical environment.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048832", "text": "The result is a steadily mounting toll in human poverty and retardation of the nation's progress.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048833", "text": "As of January 31, 1965, 396 projects have been approved under this program amounting to an investment of $ 173, 000, 000 in ARA funds.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048834", "text": "The legacy of the American past is political democracy--and an economic system that has produced an abundance unknown in history.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048835", "text": "The early development of satellite technology in the United States and the size of our investment has made it logical that ComSat serve as consortium manager.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048836", "text": "Our awareness of the social and economic potential of this new technology is met by similar excitement around the globe.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048837", "text": "The challenge of this new technology is simple--it is to encourage men to talk to each other rather than fight one another.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048838", "text": "Large-scale pollution of air and waterways is no respecter of political boundaries, and its effects extend far beyond those who cause it.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048839", "text": "In Donora, Pennsylvania in 1948, and New York City in 1953 serious illness and some deaths were produced by sharp increases in air pollution.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048840", "text": "With the cooperation of States and cities--using the tools of regulation, grant and incentives--we can bring the most serious problem of river pollution under control.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048841", "text": "To carry out our efforts to fight air pollution, I am seeking some $128 million for Fiscal 1969--more than we have committed in any past year.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048842", "text": "In the field of pollution, it is not enough for an enlightened Federal government to stimulate the work of the Sates, localities and private industry.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048843", "text": "This cause of pollution has never been fully controlled and rapidly expanding suburban development has aggravated it.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048844", "text": "I have asked for legislation to improve the education, health, and economic opportunities of our people, and to enrich the physical environment in which we live.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048845", "text": "Twice before I have spoken of the problem of crime because crime--like poverty, disease and ignorance--is a major social problem that directly or indirectly affects every American life.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048846", "text": "In our democracy, the principal responsibility for dealing with crime does not lie with the national government, but with the states and local communities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048847", "text": "Whether these citizens had ever been victimized by a criminal, or had even witnessed a major crime, their fear of crime had effectively narrowed the scope of their lives--denying them pleasure, opportunity, and a sense of peace.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048848", "text": "A great deal of crime is never reported to the police.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048849", "text": "The Federal investment beyond the second year will depend upon the effective response of state and local governments.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048850", "text": "But crime rates do increase markedly in an atmosphere that breeds hostility and frustration.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000048851", "text": "The crime that is associated with them is a serious threat to communities across America.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048852", "text": "These involve more than the condemnation of crime, more than spasmodic responses to sensational disclosures.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048853", "text": "The war against crime may be slowing its increase for the moment.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048854", "text": "The entire nation is united in concern over crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048855", "text": "In the battle against crime, unity can give us strength.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048856", "text": "But social conditions which foster a sense of injustice or exploitation also breed crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048857", "text": "The programs now underway to eliminate the degradation of poverty, the decay of our cities, the disgrace of racial discrimination, the despair of illiteracy--are all vitally important to crime prevention.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048858", "text": "The war on crime will be waged by our children and our children's children.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048859", "text": "In the fight against organized crime, top priority for the Justice Department's Strike Forces in cities beset by racketeering.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048860", "text": "As a result, every major city harbors an army of the alienated--people who acknowledge no stake in public order and no responsibility to others.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000048861", "text": "Property valued at almost $4 billion is lost through crime every year.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048862", "text": "This year America must decisively capture the initiative in the battle against crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048863", "text": "More than 90% of seizures of LSD made by the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control have also turned up marihuana--but that Bureau is not authorized to make arrests for illegal trafficking in marihuana.", "issue": "marihuana"}
{"id": "0000048864", "text": "Both seek a common end--to reduce crime and disorder in our cities by restricting the interstate movement of two causes of death and destruction--the criminal agitator and the gun.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048865", "text": "It is important that this tax, imposed by the Congress, be collected efficiently, and without infringing the constitutional rights of taxpayers.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048866", "text": "Throughout the history of our democracy, this commitment has grown and deepened.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048867", "text": "Finally, employment is one of the major weapons with which we will eventually conquer poverty in this country, and banish it forever from American life.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000048868", "text": "Health--because disease is the cruelest enemy of individual promise and because medical progress makes less and less tolerable that illness still should blight so many lives.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000048869", "text": "Many different communities must supply the energy to make these programs work.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048870", "text": "Federal funds for vocational education are administered through state plans controlled by state, not Federal, officials.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048871", "text": "If these officials are to develop wise and long-range plans for education, they must have more help.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048872", "text": "The Elementary and Secondary Education Act has provided funds to strengthen state departments of education.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000048873", "text": "One child in ten in our country is afflicted with a handicap which, if left untreated, severely cripples his chance to become a productive adult.", "issue": "handicap"}
{"id": "0000048874", "text": "The board of directors of the Corporation for public television should include American leaders in education, communications and the creative arts.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048875", "text": "The United States is facing a serious shortage of health manpower.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000048876", "text": "The Congress has approved more than 40 laws to support education from the preschool project to the postgraduate laboratory; The Federal Government has raised its investment in education to nearly $12 billion annually, almost triple the level four years ago.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048877", "text": "Private wealth increasingly becomes an artificial and unrealistic arbiter of qualifications, and the source of public leadership is thus severely narrowed.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048878", "text": "Seventy-five years later, a savage war tested the foundations of their democratic faith.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048879", "text": "The Court later struck down racial discrimination in public transportation.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048880", "text": "Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the number of Negroes registered in the five states where voter discrimination was most severe has increased by 64 percent--from 715, 099 to 1, 174, 569.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048881", "text": "By January, 7, 130 hospitals--more than 95 percent of the hospitals in the nation had agreed to provide services without discrimination.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048882", "text": "I recommend legislation to eliminate all forms of discrimination in the selection of state court juries.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048883", "text": "The result of countless individual acts of discrimination is the spawning of urban ghettoes, where housing is inferior, overcrowded and too often overpriced.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048884", "text": "We must strengthen that commitment as it relates to discrimination in housing--a problem that is national in scope.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048885", "text": "Immediately, to housing already covered by the Presidential order on equal opportunities in housing.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048886", "text": "EQUAL JUSTICE IN EMPLOYMENT The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in hiring, promotion and working conditions, as well as discrimination in the membership practices of labor organizations.", "issue": "EMPLOYMENT"}
{"id": "0000048887", "text": "Postponed investment in buildings and machines can be made at a later date without serious injury.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048888", "text": "Today, it is contributing unnecessarily to an inflation of building costs and to the pressures on financial markets, which are reflected in high interest rates.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000048889", "text": "They should rely less on high interest rates to price borrowers out of the market and more on the placing of appropriate ceilings on credit.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000048890", "text": "The demand for goods, including capital investment must be kept roughly in balance with the ability of our economy to meet this demand.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048891", "text": "The wonders of modern science must also be directed to the fight against malnutrition.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048892", "text": "The aim of the war against hunger is to help developing nations meet this challenge.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048893", "text": "In pursuing the War on Hunger, the world must face up to stark new facts about food in our times.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048894", "text": "The war against hunger can only be won by the efforts of the developing nations themselves.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048895", "text": "Agriculture must receive a much higher priority in development plans and programs.", "issue": "Agriculture"}
{"id": "0000048896", "text": "The legislation authorized concessional sales of food to countries which prove their determination to expand their own food production.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048897", "text": "It will make clear that food provided from outside is as much a real contribution to Indian development as capital for specific projects or foreign exchange assistance for import programs.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048898", "text": "We shall make available to food deficit nations the technology our scientists have now developed for producing fish protein concentrate.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048899", "text": "Russia and Red China have tripled their promises of aid in the past year.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000048900", "text": "Little more than ten years ago, Free China faced enormous security and development problems.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048901", "text": "More and more, Latin America is facing up to the fundamental problems of poverty, a rapidly growing population, and financial disorder.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048902", "text": "If there is any alternative insurance against war, it might be found in an increase in the defense budget.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048903", "text": "I Propose that the Act establish agriculture, health and education as our primary concerns and that investment in these areas be substantially expanded.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000048904", "text": "She has forced inflation down from the 1964 high of 140 percent to 40 percent--still far too high, but an enormous improvement.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000048905", "text": "In the few short years since the Korean War, the Republic of South Korea has become strong enough not only to maintain its internal advance, but to help in the defense of freedom in Vietnam.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000048906", "text": "But the problems and the promises of world trade are always changing.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048907", "text": "A supplementary agreement was negotiated at Geneva which will lower foreign tariffs on American chemicals and reduce certain non-tariff barriers--road taxes and tariff preferences--on American automobiles and tobacco.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000048908", "text": "Under international rules of trade, a nation restricts imports only at the risk of its own exports.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000048909", "text": "Passage of the anti-inflation tax is the most critical action we could take now to strengthen our position at home and in world markets.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048910", "text": "The cost of future care rises every time a child's disease or handicap is left unattended.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000048911", "text": "I recommend, in addition, that the authority for expanding low-rent housing include authorization for local housing authorities to lease 40, 000 housing units over the next four years.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048912", "text": "That low-income single persons displaced by urban renewal or other public action be made eligible for public housing.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048913", "text": "Rehabilitation and preservation of existing housing wherever possible is a key element in the urban renewal process today.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048914", "text": "Finally, to draw more investment from abroad, I am requesting new tax legislation to increase the incentives for foreigners to invest in U.S. corporate securities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048915", "text": "But new issues exempt from the tax--especially by Canada--kept these purchases nearly $500 million above the 1960 level.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000048916", "text": "Sharp reductions in income taxes-with more liberal depreciation allowances and special incentives for cost-cutting investment--have played a key role in creating such strength.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000048917", "text": "A significant increase in employment can be obtained by distributing to new employees work which is presently performed through excessive overtime.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000048918", "text": "Crime has become a malignant enemy in America's midst.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000048919", "text": "This active combat against crime calls for a fair and efficient system of law enforcement to deal with those who break our laws.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048920", "text": "But we should remember that not all crime is committed by those who are impoverished or those denied equal opportunity.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048921", "text": "But like the related problems of poverty and of education, we must face them squarely if we are to succeed.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048922", "text": "The police in our large cities know from daily experience how much street crime results, for example, from narcotics addiction.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048923", "text": "In the longer run we must also deepen our understanding of the causes of crime and of how our society should respond to the challenge of our present levels of crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048924", "text": "As the result of legislation over the past several years, today's veteran can continue his education through a new GI Bill of Rights, which right now is helping 400, 000 men and women.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048925", "text": "Its major impact will reach the veteran who needs experience, skill and education.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000048926", "text": "In research, VA doctors have pioneered in such vital work as heart disease, cancer, mental illness, and organ transplant.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000048927", "text": "To maintain unchanged our high silver coinage in the face of this stark reality would only invite a chronic and growing scarcity of coins.", "issue": "scarcity"}
{"id": "0000048928", "text": "I said then that the challenge of voting discrimination had been nothing less than a test of our faith in democracy.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048929", "text": "For a democracy cannot be fully realized, when in these five states more than a million eligible Negroes remain unregistered.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048930", "text": "Further, no matter how brutal the crime and no matter what the motive of the criminal, it is possible that the courts will conclude that some degree of involvement by local officials may well be required by these ancient statutes.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048931", "text": "In state courts, the Attorney General and private citizens will be empowered to sue wherever discrimination in jury selection exists.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048932", "text": "The Act called for withdrawal of funds where discrimination remained.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048933", "text": "This Administration has pledged that as long as racial discrimination denies opportunity and equal rights in America, we will honor our Constitutional and moral responsibility to restore the balance of justice.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048934", "text": "We can afford whatever is necessary for both our welfare at home and our common defense abroad.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048935", "text": "Second, that the major increases will go to those Federal workers whose compensation is least comparable with private enterprise.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000048936", "text": "Our commitment to international education must draw on the wisdom, experience, and energy of many people.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048937", "text": "Existing Federal authority to abate water pollution is unnecessarily time-consuming, complex in procedure, and limited in jurisdiction.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048938", "text": "The war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the generosity of others.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048939", "text": "If they are not helped then, many will be condemned to a life of poverty which they, in turn, will pass on to their children.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048940", "text": "Now Congress is being asked to extend that welfare to all our people.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048941", "text": "On similar occasions in the past we have often been called upon to wage war against foreign enemies which threatened our freedom.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048942", "text": "Today we are asked to declare war on a domestic enemy which threatens the strength of our nation and the welfare of our people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048943", "text": "By 1951, the number of our senior citizens who had earned and received social security benefits exceeded the number on public welfare.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048944", "text": "Although social security benefits keep five and one-half million aged persons above the poverty line, more than five million still live in poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048945", "text": "These proposals will take 1.4 million Americans out of poverty this year-a major step toward our goal that every elderly citizen have an adequate income and a meaningful retirement.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048946", "text": "Compliance with Tide VI of the Civil Rights Act has hastened the end of racial discrimination in hospitals and has brought good medical care to many who were previously denied it.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000048947", "text": "When serious illness strikes, extended hospitalization may be required.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000048948", "text": "Today's high standards of education, training, and mobility often favor the younger worker.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048949", "text": "Decent housing plays an important role in promoting self-respect and dignity in the later years.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048950", "text": "The Mekong Coordinating Committee and other existing agencies moved with new energy and urgency, producing such important projects as the Nam Ngum Dam in Laos.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048951", "text": "Searing winds, drought and flood can deplete production quickly and cause scarcity.", "issue": "scarcity"}
{"id": "0000048952", "text": "The war on poverty is quietly transforming the lives of thousands of men and women in rural America.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048953", "text": "I think the welfare of this Nation demands it.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048954", "text": "We simply do not know what public health price we are paying for the economic benefits we gain from fuel additives.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000048955", "text": "To win the battle against pollution, we must concentrate our effort on entire river basins.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000048956", "text": "Now modern science must be put to work on these hazards--particularly the hazards which confront the consumer.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048957", "text": "This century has seen the steady and rapid migration of farm families--seeking jobs and the promise of the city.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000048958", "text": "The demonstration should make relocation housing available at costs commensurate with the incomes of those displaced by the project.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048959", "text": "We must link our concern for the total welfare of the person, with our desire to improve the physical city in which he lives.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000048960", "text": "The programs I have proposed in this message will require a determined commitment of our energy and a substantial commitment of our funds.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000048961", "text": "The Congressional salary I am recommending today represents an 89% increase over the level of compensation in 1955.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000048962", "text": "The consequence of our determination was a vast war which took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048963", "text": "When the war was over, we supported the effort of Asian peoples to win their freedom from colonial rule.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048964", "text": "And we fought in Korea, so that South Korea might remain free.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000048965", "text": "That is why Communist China opposes discussions, even though such discussions are clearly in the interest of North Viet-Nam.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000048966", "text": "Little more than a year later, war began.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048967", "text": "The financial statesmen who shaped the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944 looked beyond the holocaust of war to a time of peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048968", "text": "If the District is to wage a successful battle against crime, it must have a strong gun control law.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048969", "text": "The study urged special education for disadvantaged children to promote equal opportunity among the poor.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048970", "text": "The proposed increase would give the District's chief executives compensation comparable to that received by their counterparts of other major cities.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000048971", "text": "The members of the District Council who serve on a part-time basis also merit an increase in salary.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000048972", "text": "Last year's reorganization has rekindled the promise of democracy in Washington.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048973", "text": "But the promise of democracy can never substitute for democracy itself.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000048974", "text": "In 1964, 9 million people benefited from programs providing a supplementary wage of food--through Food For Peace--as payment for participation in local self-help projects.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000048975", "text": "To combat ignorance, I am proposing a major new effort in international education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048976", "text": "To fight disease, I will shortly propose an International Health Act which will provide for extensive new programs at home and abroad.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000048977", "text": "Korea has made similar economic progress and has shown her dedication to the cause of freedom by supplying a full military division for service in Viet Nam.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000048978", "text": "We declared war on the hunger, the ignorance, the disease, and the hopelessness which breed violence in human affairs.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048979", "text": "With the signing of the International Grains Agreement, other wealthy nations will for the first time be obligated to contribute food and money to the world-wide war on hunger.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000048980", "text": "Each is engaged in a powerful effort to fight poverty, to grow more and better food, and to control population.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048981", "text": "These threats summon Korea to strengthen further her defenses and her capacity to deter aggression.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000048982", "text": "A new four-year college and a technical institute were authorized to bring better education and training to our young.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048983", "text": "Its war against crime must be sharply stepped up.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048984", "text": "It is not a crime to bribe or threaten persons with vital information before charges have been filed.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048985", "text": "A failure on any front in this war weakens the efforts on all the others.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000048986", "text": "As I said in my message on Crime in America, Public order is the first business of government.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000048987", "text": "For many others, serious illness wipes out savings and carries their families into poverty.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000048988", "text": "The rapid development of medical science places heavy demands on the time and skill of the physician.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000048989", "text": "To be sure, we have a wealth of new products, unimagined a few generations ago, that make life easier and more rewarding.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000048990", "text": "Vocational education must be more closely related to the demands of the modern world as well as to the opportunities for further training which will be afforded by the community college.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000048991", "text": "The District has not been spared in the general increase in crime now being experienced throughout United States.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048992", "text": "The impairment of the security of person and property, and the mounting rates of juvenile crime, are matters of major concern.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000048993", "text": "The District, in common with other American cities, suffers badly from a major shortage of housing adequate for its lower income groups.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000048994", "text": "Public housing is being supplied for low-income families displaced by public projects; but non-priority families and large families even with priority are afforded little relief.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048995", "text": "Equally important are measures to secure decent housing for the families whose incomes are high enough to make them ineligible for public housing, but who cannot find decent, safe and sanitary private accommodations at prices or rents they can afford.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000048996", "text": "But the war on poverty is not to be won in one cataclysmic battle.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000048997", "text": "Now, for the first time, computer technology has made the national registration of guns practical and workable.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000048998", "text": "Between 1955 and 1965 employment in State and local governments increased from 4.7 million to 7.7 million, or four times the rate of growth of employment in the economy as a whole.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000048999", "text": "By 1975, State and local government employment will grow to more than 11 million.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049000", "text": "In every national forum, where they have chosen to test popular sentiment, defenders of discrimination have met resounding rejection.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049001", "text": "As interest rates rose, a starvation of mortgage funds would throw housing into a new depression before it had even recovered from the last one.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049002", "text": "These gains were achieved without either runaway inflation, or the imposition of the wage and price controls which have been the condition of American life in every conflict of this century.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049003", "text": "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049004", "text": "In the twentieth year since the end of mankind's most tragic war you and I are beginning new terms of service.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049005", "text": "The danger of war remains ever with us.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049006", "text": "Among other major developments, our investment has recently produced anti-satellite systems that can intercept and destroy armed satellites that might be launched, and such revolutionary new aircraft as the F-111 fighter-bomber and the SR-71 supersonic reconnaissance aircraft.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049007", "text": "But all our experience of two centuries reminds us that-- To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049008", "text": "In the past, Congress has supported an increasing commitment to education in America.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049009", "text": "But today, lack of formal education is likely to mean low wages, frequent unemployment, and a home in an urban or rural slum.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049010", "text": "Poverty is the lot of two-thirds of the families in which the family head has had eight years or less of schooling.", "issue": "Poverty"}
{"id": "0000049011", "text": "Exciting experiments in education are underway, supported by the National Science Foundation, by the Office of Education and other Government agencies, and by private philanthropic foundations.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049012", "text": "These new programs will substantially augment community resources in the war against poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049013", "text": "They are confronted by problems of poverty, residential blight, polluted air and water, inadequate mass transportation and health services, strained human relations, and overburdened municipal services.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049014", "text": "The remarkable post-war expansion of international trade brought strength and growth to the free world economy.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049015", "text": "Other parts of the Geneva agreement will also promote trade and encourage economic growth in all free world nations.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049016", "text": "The rate of compensation fixed for each of these officers is that which I have found to prevail in respect of comparable officers in the executive branch of the Government.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049017", "text": "These economies will increase in significance as developments in science and technology bring into being still more advanced equipment.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049018", "text": "The attack against water pollution should be unified and coordinated.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000049019", "text": "The rate of compensation fixed for that officer is that which I have found to prevail in respect of comparable officers in the executive branch of the Government.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049020", "text": "The rate of compensation fixed for this officer is comparable to those fixed for officers in the Executive Branch of the Government having similar responsibilities.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049021", "text": "The rates of compensation thereunder are those which I have found to prevail in respect of comparable positions in the executive branch of the Government.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049022", "text": "The rates of compensation fixed for these officers are comparable to those fixed for officers in the executive branch of the Government having similar responsibilities.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049023", "text": "The strength and vitality of our democracy depends in major part upon the Federal Government's adaptability, on its capacity for fast flexible response to changing needs imposed by changing circumstances.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049024", "text": "With our help, developed countries like Britain, France and Japan recovered from the war rapidly and were soon in a position to give rather than receive assistance.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049025", "text": "Second, a new government under Prime Minister Khanh has come to power, bringing new energy and leadership and new hope for effective action.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049026", "text": "Today the United States ranks as the world's leader in technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049027", "text": "If farmers do produce large quantities of peanuts for oil at no profit, there will inevitably be pressures for supporting the price of peanut oil in the future, which would only complicate matters further.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049028", "text": "We struck down discrimination in job opportunities, public accommodations, and voting in the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049029", "text": "Stimulate the flow of private credit for home building in the city by providing flexible interest ceilings on FHA mortgages and transferring the secondary market operations of the Federal National Mortgage Association to private ownership.", "issue": "home building"}
{"id": "0000049030", "text": "The ballot box is the great anvil of democracy, where government is shaped by the will of the people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049031", "text": "Four years ago, the Twenty-Fourth Amendment struck down the tests of the poll tax which had for almost a century disenfranchised thousands of Americans.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049032", "text": "Our laws and treaties must always keep pace with our science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049033", "text": "The consequences would be nuclear anarchy, and the energy designed to light the world could plunge it into darkness.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049034", "text": "Additionally, we should continue to license donations of food and medicines to nongovernmental organizations in Cuba for the benefit of the Cuban people.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000049035", "text": "Extension of MFN is also important for promoting reform in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049036", "text": "Foreign trade keeps China open to the outside world and supports the economic forces that are driving domestic political and social change and encouraging a loosening of state control and more personal freedom.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049037", "text": "Conditional renewal is not acceptable because it would make China less likely to respond to U.S. concerns.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049038", "text": "While school accountability is important, the Administration is committed to local control of education and this rule places additional burden on States and constrains them in areas where the ESSA intended broad flexibility.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049039", "text": "The President's decision to renew the waiver extending China's MFN status is based on the principle that engagement with China offers the best hope for democratic reform.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049040", "text": "As noted below, the United States' record of addressing issues of concern with China has been one of considerable success.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049041", "text": "Finally, U.S. businesses with joint venture and other operations in China would suffer significant economic losses.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049042", "text": "This means that in order for Iran to covertly acquire a nuclear weapon, it would need to build an entirely separate, undetected nuclear supply chain.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049043", "text": "An integral part of the Administration's commitment to free trade is our commitment to enforcing trade laws.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049044", "text": "The resources in this legislation will support investment in promising new therapies like cancer immunotherapy, new prevention tools, cancer vaccine development, novel early detection tools, and pediatric cancer interventions.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049045", "text": "The bill authorizes a program for modernizing vacant public housing.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049046", "text": "In public housing, the bill creates a new perinatal services demonstration to provide facilities and renovate existing structures, activities that are eligible for funding under the public housing modernization program.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049047", "text": "Up to 129 million people who could have otherwise been denied or faced discrimination now have access to coverage.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049048", "text": "By concentrating on the causes of chronic disease, the Fund helps more Americans stay healthy.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000049049", "text": "The Administration believes discrimination is never acceptable but is concerned with the potential harmful unintended consequences this legislation which would undo what works well in current law.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049050", "text": "To deal with the acute housing and hunger crises caused by the pandemic, the bill provides Americans in need with rental, mortgage, and homelessness assistance and extends the emergency benefit increase in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049051", "text": "To help farmers struggling with the effects of the pandemic, the bill includes funding to address weaknesses in our agriculture food systems.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049052", "text": "Finally, the Administration supports placing responsibility for research on special education and related services in the Education Department's Institute of Education Sciences, as provided in the bill.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000049053", "text": "While the Administration strongly supports Federal assistance to families that lack the means to afford adequate housing, the Administration has concerns about section 139 of H.R. 1427.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049054", "text": "The Administration strongly opposes piecemeal changes to portions of disability compensation contained in section 645.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049055", "text": "The security challenges facing the United States have changed dramatically, and our military must be changed to meet those new challenges.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049056", "text": "Splitting them between the Army and the Missile Defense Agency would duplicate effort, add cost, and impede program progress, particularly development of the air defense mission.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049057", "text": "Since day one, the President and his Administration have been committed to ensuring the American military remains the strongest in the world.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049058", "text": "The agencies' rulemaking, grounded in science, is essential to ensure clean water for future generations, and is responsive to calls for rulemaking from Congress, industry, and community stakeholders as well as decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049059", "text": "H.R. 1806 undermines key investments in science, technology, and innovation and imposes unnecessary and damaging requirements on Federal support of research.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049060", "text": "Extend the definition of veteran of the Vietnam era from December 31, 1991, to December 31, 1994, for the purpose of establishing staffing levels in the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000049061", "text": "Without authorization for a new round of BRAC, DOD may not properly align the military's infrastructure with the needs of our evolving force structure, which is critical to ensuring that limited resources are available for the highest priorities of the warfighter and national security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049062", "text": "Under the laws of war, the United State s may detain enemy combatants captured in the war on terror until the end of the conflict.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049063", "text": "Further, the funding level for shore and housing projects will deprive Coast Guard families of suitable housing in duty stations where housing market shortfalls exist and eliminate high priority shore projects that directly affect operations.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049064", "text": "The appropriation of additional resources to fight the war on drugs should be deferred and considered in the context of the President's FY 1990 request of $6.0 billion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049065", "text": "As the President demonstrated in his May 15th address on combatting violent crime, he is committed to strengthening the nation's criminal justice system, a critical part of our war on drugs.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049066", "text": "The bill would require that discrimination on this basis be treated as if it were race or national origin discrimination under Titles VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, and certain other Federal civil rights laws.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049067", "text": "Such discrimination has imposed significant economic costs, learning disruption, and denial of economic opportunities for people of color.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049068", "text": "The unfair death tax results in the double taxation of a family's hard-earned assets.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049069", "text": "The President requested funding for the global war on terror more than three months ago and continues to seek its prompt enactment to support our men and women in the armed forces and diplomatic corps.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049070", "text": "As the Department of Defense has made clear, in order to operate effectively and efficiently, our military needs assurance in the timing and amount of funding from Congress.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049071", "text": "We face a security situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan that demands urgent attention.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049072", "text": "The Administration believes that the unpredictable outbreak merits appropriation of funds to a new account in the Executive Office of the President for a Federal-wide assessment and coordination of the resources to respond to this situation.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000049073", "text": "However, reductions to several programs put at risk key Administration initiatives to protect crucial infrastructure, secure high-risk urban areas, and prepare our citizens.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049074", "text": "Without a new round of BRAC, DOD cannot properly align the military's infrastructure with the needs of its evolving force structure, a critical tool for ensuring that limited resources are available to the highest priorities of the warfighter and national security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049075", "text": "State-of-the-art research facilities to replace USDA's aging laboratory infrastructure are key to the Department's ability to meet research challenges of the 21st Century.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049076", "text": "In addition to being a tax increase, this provision would discourage foreign investment in the United States, override tax treaties the U.S. has with many nations, and raise questions under other international agreements.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049077", "text": "Otherwise, there is a risk that United States farm and other exports could be exposed to billions of dollars in retaliation against our leading farm exports.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000049078", "text": "Funding at requested levels for these crucial investments in the nation's science infrastructure is needed to ensure America's competitive position in research and development.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049079", "text": "For example, by expansively defining joint employer liability, the bill would discourage investment and job creation and reduce opportunities for workers.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049080", "text": "Creating a pilot program where one individual is treated differently than another charged with the same crime may raise fairness concerns.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049081", "text": "Military members receive appropriate compensation already.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049082", "text": "Section 333 would inappropriately exempt reporting requirements imposed by the Army from public comment and review by the Office of Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act that would ensure the benefits of collection outweigh burden and cost.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049083", "text": "This legislation would authorize a reduction in excess infrastructure through an additional round of base closure and realignment, allowing the Department to better meet operational readiness objectives and modernization requirements in support of our overall national security homeland defense and war fighting plan.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049084", "text": "VA Disability Compensation H.R. 2586 would authorize military retirees to receive VA disability compensation without a reduction in retirement pay.", "issue": "Compensation"}
{"id": "0000049085", "text": "Our efforts to promote reform at the UN would be severely handicapped if the United States does not honor its financial commitments to the UN.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000049086", "text": "At a time when the United Nations is playing such an important role in world affairs, the United States must fulfill its treaty obligations to the UN and its affiliated organizations and pay our required share.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000049087", "text": "At a time when the United Nations is playing such an important role in world affairs, the United States must fulfill its treaty obligations to the UN and its affiliated organizations and pay our required share.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000049088", "text": "These reductions could severely impact U.S. leadership in many areas of science, including x-ray light sources and foundational research that will benefit clean energy production and use.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049089", "text": "An important element of the EAI, which provides official U.S. debt reduction for countries implementing these reforms, would foster investment and growth opportunities and encourage new environmental activities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049090", "text": "If the U.S. provides any funds to the UNFPA, the U.S. would in effect be endorsing China's policy of coercive abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000049091", "text": "Increasing and extending unemployment insurance benefits when unemployment is this low would be unprecedented and counterproductive because it would reduce the incentive for workers to find new employment.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000049092", "text": "The Administration urges the Senate to adopt language concerning abortion that was included in the District of Columbia Appropriations Acts for FY 1989, FY 1990, and FY 1991.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000049093", "text": "In an effort to stimulate more comprehensive, innovative services to the homeless, the Administration has requested funds for this program in the Supplemental Assistance for Facilities to Assist the Homeless account in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.", "issue": "homeless"}
{"id": "0000049094", "text": "The Administration appreciates the bill's investment in water resources through the Bureau of Reclamation and CUP, but believes funding should be limited to the amount in the FY 2020 Budget request and should be focused on the highest priority needs from a national perspective.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049095", "text": "The Administration's request included adequate discretionary funding for information technology, avoiding the need to use mandatory funds.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049096", "text": "The Administration's request included adequate discretionary funding for information technology, thus avoiding the need to use mandatory funds.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049097", "text": "Cuba's trade and tourism with other nations has sustained the Castro regime and brought neither freedom nor prosperity to ordinary Cubans.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049098", "text": "These funds are important tools the UN can use to promote democratic institutions and free market principles abroad.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000049099", "text": "The UN Democracy Fund and the UN Entrepreneurship Fund are important tools the UN can use to promote democratic institutions and free market principles abroad.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000049100", "text": "The Administration strongly supports the education of our children, including those with disabilities according to the principles embodied in IDEA.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049101", "text": "In FY 1993 and subsequent years, excess milk price inflation would cause an increase in Federal spending of several hundred million dollars per year to restore the purchasing power of schools and the poor.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049102", "text": "These two programs are important to supporting democracy building around the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049103", "text": "The Assistant Secretary of the Army will submit a report to Congress following his approval of an amended plan.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049104", "text": "The science and technology programs of both NASA and NSF represent an important investment in the future of the Nation - an investment that must be made if the United States is to remain competitive in global markets.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049105", "text": "The Pathfinder program is intended to develop technology that is vital to the Nation being able to makevintelligent decisions on how and when to carry out the Nation's long range space goal of expansion of human presence into the solar system.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049106", "text": "The BA level for subsidized housing is $1*6 billion higher than requested in the President's Budget.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049107", "text": "These restrictions earmark funds for personnel compensation and benefits and delay availability of equipment funds until August 1990.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049108", "text": "The Space station represents an important investment in the future of long-term space exploration.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049109", "text": "We urge the Senate to restore this important investment in the Nation's future.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049110", "text": "The ability of law enforcement and national security personnel to share this type of information is a critical tool for pursuing the war against terrorism on all fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049111", "text": "These provisions will help to ensure that the fight against terrorism is a national priority in our criminal justice system.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049112", "text": "As a result, the Federal government will obtain a higher return on its investments, recoup the cost of this investment, and ultimately save the taxpayers billions of dollars.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049113", "text": "The bill, as reported by the Committee, makes important investments in infrastructure so economic progress does not bypass rural communities.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049114", "text": "In addition, this legislation addresses chronic problems facing Americans, including poverty, nutrition, and housing.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049115", "text": "The bill, as reported by the committee, makes important investments in infrastructure so economic progress does not bypass rural communities.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049116", "text": "This legislation also addresses chronic problems facing Americans, including poverty and nutrition and housing.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049117", "text": "The Administration strongly supports improving the Nation's infrastructure, but this bill is problematic for several reasons.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049118", "text": "Infrastructure has traditionally been an issue where both parties have found common ground.", "issue": "Infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049119", "text": "What we have sacrificed is America's leadership role on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049120", "text": "Without these funds, the United States Agency for International Development will not have the necessary means to provide emergency food in those instances where the rapid use of cash assistance is critical to saving lives.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000049121", "text": "Without these funds, the United States Agency for International Development will not have the necessary means to provide emergency food in those instances where the rapid use of cash assistance is critical to saving lives.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000049122", "text": "However, China would continue to be prohibited from exporting poultry to the United States due to the presence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049123", "text": "The legislation makes long overdue commitments to improved infrastructure, focusing on high-return investments and the reliable operation of those facilities that are of central importance to the Nation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049124", "text": "The legislation makes long overdue commitments to improve infrastructure, focusing on high-return investments and the reliable operation of those facilities that are of central importance to the Nation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049125", "text": "The research, development, and demonstration of solar energy and building technologies are two areas where investments can make large contributions toward a clean energy economy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049126", "text": "This Administration strongly supports restoring America's investment in defense.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049127", "text": "By 2010, cancer is expected to surpass heart disease as the number one leading cause of death globally.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000049128", "text": "This initiative is especially key to sustaining progress in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049129", "text": "Securing election infrastructure is a partnership between Federal, State, and local governments and private sector entities.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049130", "text": "The substitute provisions would make clear that racial discrimination has no place in the criminal justice system.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049131", "text": "The substitute provisions would make clear that racial discrimination has no place in the criminal justice system.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049132", "text": "The Administration reaffirms that no one should face discrimination or harassment because of who they are or whom they love.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049133", "text": "This amendment would stimulate significant private sector investment and innovation in surface transportation infrastructure.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049134", "text": "The Agreement will make trade between the two countries more of a two-way street.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049135", "text": "The Agreement will make trade between the two countries more of a two-way street.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049136", "text": "No refugee is approved for travel to the United States under the current system until the full array of required security vetting measures have been completed.", "issue": "refugee"}
{"id": "0000049137", "text": "Pricing of services like higher education is complicated, and government regulation of pricing comes with unintended consequences such as penalizing institutions for making investments in quality improvements.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049138", "text": "H.R. 4156 would undermine the success of our military at a critically important time, when irrefutable progress in the area of security is beginning to translate into progress in the area of civil society and reconciliation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049139", "text": "H.R. 4156 would undermine the success of our military at a critically important time, when irrefutable progress in the area of security is beginning to translate into progress in the area of civil society and reconciliation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049140", "text": "The Administration shares your concerns about the welfare of survivors of military retirees, but is concerned about the phase out over four years of the current age 62 reduction in the Survivor Benefit Plan annuities.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000049141", "text": "Over the past decade, due in large measure to overly restrictive budget caps, the Nation significantly underinvested in core priorities such as education, research, and public health that are vital to our prosperity and strength.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049142", "text": "Without authorization for a new round of BRAC, DOD may not properly align the military's infrastructure with the needs of our evolving force structure, which is critical to ensuring that limited resources are available for the highest priorities of the warfighter and national security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049143", "text": "Cooperation with Russia remains an essential element to the global effort to address the threat posed by nuclear terrorism.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049144", "text": "Preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon has been a top priority for the Administration toward which it has worked diligently with Congress and our international partners.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049145", "text": "Additionally, to ensure the appropriate civilian control of the military, the Service Secretaries should retain the current authority to recommend officers for appointment to these positions.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049146", "text": "The Administration supports clean energy, job development, and the innovation economy and adheres to a bottom-up energy philosophy that promotes free-markets, funds scientific research, and honors the choices of producers and consumers.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049147", "text": "The Administration supports investments in military infrastructure, housing, and services for men and women in our armed forces and their families.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049148", "text": "Over the past decade, due in large measure to overly restrictive budget caps, the Nation significantly underinvested in core priorities such as education, research, and public health that are vital to our prosperity and strength.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049149", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an extraordinary strain on the SNS and this funding would allow for the replenishment of critical materiel and preparation for the next public health emergency.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049150", "text": "The additional funding would support special education and related services for over 7.6 million students with disabilities and is a significant step toward fully funding IDEA.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049151", "text": "This investment would help support the mental health and well-being of the Nation's students, teachers, and school staff as they navigate their new normal given all the COVID-19 pandemic disruptions.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049152", "text": "The Administration also appreciates the commitment to climate resilient water infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049153", "text": "While more opportunities may exist to advance access to all communities equitably, this investment represents a significant step forward in achieving such equity in Indian country and tribal communities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049154", "text": "Over the past decade, due in large measure to overly restrictive budget caps, the Nation significantly underinvested in core priorities such as education, research, and public health that are vital to our prosperity and strength.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049155", "text": "The President has made transformation of the military a top defense priority.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049156", "text": "The Administration is committed to addressing the opioid epidemic.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000049157", "text": "Reduced funding levels for these two priorities would undermine efforts to increase foreign investment in the United States, create jobs, and ensure a level playing field for U.S. businesses overseas.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049158", "text": "Cuba's trade with other nations has brought no change to Fidel Castro's despotic practices, because the benefits accrue not to the Cuban people but to the dictator who represses them.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049159", "text": "The President has made transformation of the military a top defense priority.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049160", "text": "As DOD transitions out of a decade of war, aircraft force structure changes are necessary to shape a force that is more agile and ready to respond to the requirements of the defense strategy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049161", "text": "The legislation also excessively restricts nonproliferation contracts with Russia and prevents the development of lower cost technologies for disposal of excess plutonium.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049162", "text": "This reduced funding level will stifle Federal investment in innovative clean energy research and development at a time of significant global competition and progress.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049163", "text": "The Administration opposes the elimination of funding for police infrastructure from the request for the Iraqi Security Forces Fund and the Afghan Security Forces Fund.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049164", "text": "Relocating the tracks would represent a substantial investment beyond pre-disaster conditions and would improperly require U.S. taxpayers to pay for private sector infrastructure.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049165", "text": "While the Administration appreciates the Committee's support for the Department of Health and Human Services' efforts to improve our preparedness for an influenza pandemic, the Administration is concerned that the bill reduced the Administration's request of $100 million by $40 million.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049166", "text": "The agencies' rulemaking, grounded in science, is essential to ensure clean water for future generations and reduce regulatory uncertainty, and is responsive to calls for rulemaking from Congress, industry, and community stakeholders as well as decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049167", "text": "If the U. S. provides any funds to the UNFPA, the U. S. would in effect be endorsing China's policy of coercive abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000049168", "text": "Restricting this authority to Afghanistan limits the Secretary's ability to support counter-narcotics and security forces in partner nations where heavily armed narcotics traffickers sometimes outmatch government forces in terms of resources and equipment.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049169", "text": "Continued investment in these programs cannot be defended if anticipated savings do not materialize.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049170", "text": "The Zika virus poses a serious public health threat.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000049171", "text": "Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently concluded that the Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000049172", "text": "Funding to fight the Zika virus should be treated as an emergency, the same as past public health emergencies such as the Ebola and H1N1 viruses, and should not be offset.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000049173", "text": "The President's proposal to provide $25 million for b children who reside in public housing would adequately compensate districts for children who pose a significant burden.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049174", "text": "Although the Administration supports the adoption of a loan guarantee program for rural housing, the House Committee has failed to adopt readily available broader loan program reforms and other proposals made by the President.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049175", "text": "By forcing the Department to spread its resources more thinly, excess infrastructure is one of the principal drains on the Department's readiness, which the Committee recognizes as a major concern.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049176", "text": "The President's decision to renew the waiver extending China's MFN status is based on the principle that engagement with China offers the best hope for democratic reform.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049177", "text": "As noted below, the United States' record of addressing issues of concern with China has been one of considerable success.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049178", "text": "Finally, U.S. businesses with joint venture and other operations in China would suffer significant economic losses.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049179", "text": "Furthermore, this bill undermines key investments in clean energy and scientific research and development, building blocks of our Nation's future economy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049180", "text": "In addition, some communities seriously impacted by crime would not be able to support enough police officers to effectively respond.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049181", "text": "Funding at requested levels for these crucial investments in the nation's science infrastructure is needed to ensure America's competitive position in research and development in the future.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049182", "text": "Funding at requested levels for these crucial investments in the nation's science infrastructure is needed to ensure America's competitive position in research and development in the future.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049183", "text": "Funding at requested levels for this crucial investment in the nation's science infrastructure is needed to ensure America's competitive position in research and development in the future.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049184", "text": "The bill is the most significant investment in children and caregiving in generations.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049185", "text": "Cuba's trade with other nations has brought no change to Fidel Castro's despotic practices, because the benefits accrue not to the Cuban people but to the dictator who represses them.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049186", "text": "The absence of this authority significantly hampers the Administration's ability to deliver food rapidly to meet urgent unanticipated needs.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000049187", "text": "Such authority is fundamental to a well-functioning democracy and the denial of such authority is an affront to the residents and leaders of the District.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049188", "text": "These prohibitions impede U.S. leadership in reducing carbon pollution, promoting climate solutions and preparedness, and meeting our responsibility to future generations.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000049189", "text": "In order to maintain our military advantage, the Administration will responsibly leverage foundational infrastructure and platform technologies from the commercial sector.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049190", "text": "The request is targeted to support critical programs, including democracy, governance and institutional capacity-building in Iraq, and counternarcotics, rule of law, infrastructure and economic development in Afghanistan.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049191", "text": "The Administration strongly supports increased investment in IHS and commends the Committee for funding health care services for American Indians and Alaska Natives.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049192", "text": "In addition, the Administration views investment, including investment from overseas, as vital to continued economic growth, job creation, and building an ever-stronger America.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049193", "text": "Removal of excess heavy water from Iran denies Iran access to material that could be stockpiled for potential nuclear weapons production while also providing the international market access to an important commodity for research and non-nuclear industries.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049194", "text": "The Administration believes TV Marti is a valuable investment in promoting freedom and democracy in Cuba and would oppose such an amendment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049195", "text": "The request of $5.4 million for advanced rotorcraft technology is sufficient for addressing high priority research areas in tiltrotor aircraft.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049196", "text": "The request of $5.4 million for advanced rotorcraft technology is sufficient for addressing high priority research areas in tiltrotor aircraft.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049197", "text": "Our allies have steadfastly supported us when Iran has brought concerns to the Joint Commission, but they would be unable to do so if this legislation were enacted.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049198", "text": "The Administration opposes H.R. 582, the Raise the Wage Act.", "issue": "Wage"}
{"id": "0000049199", "text": "This bill would benefit Iran, not the United States.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049200", "text": "H.R. 5 fails to make critical investments for this Nation's students, including high-quality preschool for America's children, support for America's teachers and principals, and investment in innovative solutions for the public education system.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049201", "text": "Yet over the past several decades, overtime protections have eroded as a result of inflation and lobbyists' efforts to weaken them.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049202", "text": "In order to maintain our military advantage, DOD will responsibly leverage foundational infrastructure and platform technologies from the commercial sector.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049203", "text": "Prescriptive statutory requirements for communications infrastructure can present serious security and counterintelligence risks.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049204", "text": "As we end the war in Iraq and wind down the war in Afghanistan, over one million servicemembers are projected to leave the military between 2011 and 2016.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049205", "text": "Not only would such a result substantially harm U.S. interests abroad, it would discourage foreign investment in the U.S. economy.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049206", "text": "In addition, the housing allowance, a significant part of a member's compensation, is excluded from the basic needs allowance eligibility calculation.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049207", "text": "The Department of State is currently authorized to provide additional compensation and medical benefits to its employees who are injured abroad while under the authority of a chief of mission.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049208", "text": "The Administration opposes emergency spending on non-emergency infrastructure, R&D, and accelerated cleanup items, and instead urges fiscal restraint and funding levels commensurate with the FY 2021 Budget Request.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049209", "text": "The Administration supports additional investment in infrastructure that is reasonable and well-targeted, but it opposes the use of budget gimmicks to achieve this goal.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049210", "text": "The Administration supports additional investment in transportation infrastructure that is effective and well-targeted.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049211", "text": "The Administration supports additional investment in infrastructure that is reasonable and well-targeted, but opposes the use of budget gimmicks to achieve this goal.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049212", "text": "Taking care of the All-Volunteer force, their families, and DoD civilian employees and contractors is vital to ensuring a resilient military today and in the future.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049213", "text": "Further investment in developing SLCM-N would divert resources and focus from higher modernization priorities for the U.S. nuclear enterprise and infrastructure, which is already stretched to capacity after decades of deferred investments.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049214", "text": "Ensuring access to contraception is a crucial element of preventative health care.", "issue": "contraception"}
{"id": "0000049215", "text": "While more opportunities may exist to advance access to all communities equitably, this investment represents a significant step forward in achieving such equity in Indian country and tribal communities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049216", "text": "IHS remains the only major Federal provider of healthcare that is funded solely through regular appropriations on an annual basis.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000049217", "text": "Weakening these standards would allow more pollution in the air we breathe and threaten the health of Americans across the country.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000049218", "text": "The Republic of Korea is a key ally for the United States in Asia, and the United States-ROK alliance continues to be the linchpin of peace and security-not only on the Korean Peninsula, but across the region.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000049219", "text": "Russia and China are aggressively seeking to broaden their defense export markets, especially to reach countries with lower budgets or those that remain reliant on Soviet legacy equipment.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049220", "text": "Flexible authorities provided by Congress have proven critical in responding to needs in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049221", "text": "The agencies' rulemaking, grounded in science and the law, is essential to ensure clean water for future generations, and is responsive to calls for rulemaking from the Congress, industry, and community stakeholders as well as decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049222", "text": "The Administration has been reviewing DOD's overseas infrastructure, and the results of that analysis will inform future infrastructure decisions.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049223", "text": "Without authorization for a new round of BRAC, DOD may not properly align the military's infrastructure with the needs of the evolving force structure, which is critical to ensuring that limited resources are available for the highest priorities of the Armed Forces and national security.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049224", "text": "All levels of government - Federal, State, and local - must increase investment in the Nation's transportation infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049225", "text": "The Senate budget enables critical investments in education, infrastructure, innovation, and national security that support America's continued economic recovery and best positions Americans and our economy to compete in the future.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049226", "text": "The bill also recognizes how important housing is to a sense of security for the American people.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049227", "text": "The Administration supports the Committee's commitment to investment in new public transit in cities across the Nation.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049228", "text": "In 2003, the President signed a bill that increased disability compensation, survivor benefits, and burial benefits for certain Filipino veterans living in the United States.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049229", "text": "This provision would deny an important potential tool in the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049230", "text": "Some argue that expanding trade might bring change to Cuba.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049231", "text": "However, Cuba's trade with other nations has brought no change to Fidel Castro's despotic practices, and it is clear that it is the dictator and not the Cuban people that have benefited from this trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049232", "text": "VA Disability Compensation S. 1438 would authorize military retirees to receive VA disability compensation without a reduction in retirement pay.", "issue": "Compensation"}
{"id": "0000049233", "text": "The ability of law enforcement and national security personnel to share this type of information is a critical tool for pursuing the war against terrorism on all fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049234", "text": "These provisions will help to ensure that the fight against terrorism is a national priority in our criminal justice system.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049235", "text": "The Department of Homeland Security is the Federal lead for critical infrastructure, including electoral infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049236", "text": "The CSRT provisions in section 1023 would impose on the U.S. military an unprecedented and onerous burden by granting a commission-like trial to every detainee held as an unlawful enemy combatant for two years or more by the Department of Defense , anywhere in the world.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049237", "text": "Although the Administration has supported additional benefits for members who are bearing the burden of mobilization and deployment, we are concerned about the growth in deferred compensation and entitlements.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049238", "text": "The Administration strongly opposes piecemeal changes to disability compensation contained in section 653.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049239", "text": "The Administration recognizes the enormous importance of foreign trade to the agriculture industry, with exports accounting for twenty-five percent of farm income.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049240", "text": "We support programs that facilitate trade and enhance the competitiveness of our farmers and food industry in the global marketplace.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049241", "text": "The additional spending cuts under S. 1931 would mean further reductions in areas like education and energy, reducing core government functions ranging from services for this Nation's veterans to border security, and further cutting back spending on the Nation's defense.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049242", "text": "Also, section 7345 authorizes grants to institutions of higher education with enrollments of 10% or more Native American students, a term defined to extend beyond members of Federally recognized Indian tribes.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049243", "text": "Clarify that computerized trading should not be restricted to being an adjunct to the open out cry auction system.", "issue": "trading"}
{"id": "0000049244", "text": "Authorize the CFTC to ban dual trading if it concludes that the benefits of such a ban would exceed its costs.", "issue": "trading"}
{"id": "0000049245", "text": "Accordingly, the SSCI bill provides for FISA Court approval of surveillance of U.S. persons abroad.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000049246", "text": "Under executive orders in place since before the enactment of FISA in 1978, Attorney General approval is required before foreign intelligence surveillance and searches may be conducted against a U.S. person abroad under circumstances in which a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000049247", "text": "America's welcoming society is more than a cultural tradition; it is a fundamental promise of our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049248", "text": "A temporary worker program is vital to securing the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049249", "text": "This authority is necessary to ensure that the military can call upon its full capabilities at a time of domestic emergency to save American lives and property.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049250", "text": "The Administration also strongly opposes imposing the 25 percent windfall profits tax on specified oil companies.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049251", "text": "The Administration strongly supports continuation of tax incentives for renewable energy, and in fact the President recently proposed a more effective approach that would reform today's complicated mix of incentives to make the commercialization and use of new, lower emission technologies more competitive.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049252", "text": "Such an approach recognizes the critical need to allow our military and their families the full opportunity to inform and shape the implementation process through a thorough understanding of their concerns, insights and suggestions.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049253", "text": "Since the commercial satellite industry does not currently build 1.5 meter satellites, this provision would require considerable additional government investment, and is not required to meet defense or intelligence requirements.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049254", "text": "The Administration urges that no new provisions on Iran be included in light of the comprehensiveness of the recently enacted sanctions legislation.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049255", "text": "Make every veteran serving during the Persian Gulf War period eligible for the VA pension program, even if they were not serving in the combat zone.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000049256", "text": "Thus, a ban on these organizations participating in election politics cannot be justified by an interest in avoiding corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000049257", "text": "Taking care of the All-Volunteer force, their families, and DoD civilian employees and contractors is vital to ensuring a resilient military today and in the future.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049258", "text": "The proposal builds on the trust fund infrastructure already in place to move pre-Medicare-eligible retiree health costs to the same mandatory spending category as Medicare-eligible retiree health costs and military retired pay.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049259", "text": "Further investment in developing SLCM-N would divert resources and focus from higher modernization priorities for the U.S. nuclear enterprise and infrastructure, which is already stretched to capacity after decades of deferred investments.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049260", "text": "The Administration is committed to addressing the opioid epidemic through enhanced prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000049261", "text": "It also creates a new Federal trafficking crime and authorizes stronger penalties for leaders of trafficking organizations.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049262", "text": "While the Administration did not request financial assistance for airlines, it recognizes that the war in Iraq may have an impact on the demand for air travel.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049263", "text": "As the Congressional Budget Office has noted, this kind of drug benefit will actually increase drug prices, especially on the drugs that seniors use most.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000049264", "text": "The Administration supports full democracy for Iran, but we believe the focus of the bill on a referendum as the only tool for change in Iran is too narrow and advocate a broader range of activities to support democracy and human rights in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049265", "text": "For America to succeed, we need the best, safest infrastructure in the world, and the Federal Government needs to lead the way.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049266", "text": "This legislation represents the most significant long-term investment in the United States' infrastructure and competitiveness in nearly a century.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049267", "text": "It would also make the largest investment in addressing legacy pollution in American history.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049268", "text": "High prices for automobiles caused by the semiconductor shortage accounted for a full one-third of core inflation last year, and the shortage cost the U.S. economy nearly $240 billion overall.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000049269", "text": "In order to effectively mitigate climate change, addressing methane pollution from this and other sectors is an urgent and essential step.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000049270", "text": "Oil and gas pollution can also be carried by the wind and intensify air pollution problems in communities along that path, including across state boundaries.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000049271", "text": "Extension of MFN is also important for promoting reform in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049272", "text": "Foreign trade keeps China open to the outside world and supports the economic forces that are driving domestic political and social change and encouraging a loosening of state control and more personal freedom.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049273", "text": "Conditional renewal is not acceptable because it would make China less likely to respond to U.S. concerns.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049274", "text": "At the same time, we have established a positive relationship with Russia that includes partnership in counterterrorism and in other key areas of mutual concern.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049275", "text": "Employment is growing but it is not growing fast enough given the jobs deficit caused by the deep recession.", "issue": "Employment"}
{"id": "0000049276", "text": "The stronger increase in work hours than in payroll employment suggests that many businesses chose to expand on the intensive margin as opposed to the extensive margin in June.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049277", "text": "Today's key judgments also confirm that Iran and Syria are still supporting and arming militant groups inside Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049278", "text": "On energy, Hillary Clinton wants to shut down the coal mines, block the Keystone pipeline, and destroy millions of good union jobs through executive action.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049279", "text": "A world-class education is the single most important factor in making that possible.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049280", "text": "To address the emergency at the southern border, I am invoking the authorities granted to me by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049281", "text": "If Mexico does not take decisive measures, it will come at a significant price.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049282", "text": "Providing this assistance is not only a humanitarian imperative - it's an investment in our common security, as no climate change accord can succeed if it does not help all countries reduce their emissions.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049283", "text": "You have got to make sure we secure our border, that's first.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049284", "text": "In Mr. Romney's four-year tenure, the deficit was eliminated without raising the sales tax or the income tax, and since the labor slump hit bottom in December 2003, the state has gained 81, 000 jobs.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049285", "text": "Our current leaders think Iran is a place America can do business with.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049286", "text": "These kinds of agreements make sure that the global economy's rules aren't written by countries like China, they're written by the United States of America.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049287", "text": "All Americans, and people of compassion everywhere, remain deeply troubled by the cruel war in Bosnia and the broader turmoil in what was Yugoslavia.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049288", "text": "The United Nations trade embargo has idled roughly half the industry of Serbia, whose leader bears heavy responsibility for the aggression in Bosnia.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000049289", "text": "This deal signals to the world that our democracy can function, deliver, and do big things.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049290", "text": "American workers will make a historic investment to install the first-ever national network electric vehicle charging stations and undertake critical environmental cleanups.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049291", "text": "This administration is committed to free and fair trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049292", "text": "And through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's new 2X Women's Initiative, we are mobilizing $1 billion for investment into projects that support women in emerging markets.", "issue": "Investment"}
{"id": "0000049293", "text": "We see it in Iran, where the regime is brutally repressing the voices of women who are courageously standing up for their freedom.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049294", "text": "And in the face of Russia's vicious and unjust invasion of Ukraine, including the use of rape as a weapon of war, we see countless stories of women bravely fighting for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all Ukrainians.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049295", "text": "Through initiatives like the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, we are supporting the infrastructure of the care economy in low- and middle-income countries.", "issue": "Infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049296", "text": "Investment in wired and wireless networks has supported jobs and made America the center of a vibrant ecosystem of digital devices, apps, and platforms that fuel growth and expand opportunity.", "issue": "Investment"}
{"id": "0000049297", "text": "The friendships I formed in war remain among the closest relationships in my life.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049298", "text": "Encouraging people not to choose to become noncommissioned officers would hurt the military and our country very badly.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049299", "text": "The European Union last month finalized a trade deal with South Korea, and have subsequently seen exports rocket 16 percent.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000049300", "text": "We must stand by Ukraine as it defends itself from Russian aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049301", "text": "As vital as it is to help Ukraine combat Russian aggression, it is equally vital to help Americans combat COVID.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049302", "text": "Her struggle and that of her husband, Walter, who remains in prison, and her children, remind us of the price of freedom and the hope which her example inspires in all of us.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049303", "text": "This administration is committed to free trade as an engine of growth.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049304", "text": "Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000049305", "text": "As we applaud the important research and clinical work occurring across our Nation and around the world, we also recognize that cures to Alzheimer's disease and associated forms of dementia cannot come soon enough.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000049306", "text": "Ending the war in Yemen has been a consistent focus of our administration over the past year.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049307", "text": "Even as we work to end the war in Yemen, there can be no doubt about President Biden's commitment to supporting the defense of our partners, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049308", "text": "The original Iraq War resolution of 2002 did not authorize the war we are now fighting, but rather a war to remove WMD.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049309", "text": "That war ended when the President declared Mission Accomplished.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049310", "text": "This current war is a violation of the War Powers Act, because it has not been authorized by Congress.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049311", "text": "The most recent House funding bill finances the war through August 1st.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049312", "text": "We must redeploy some of our troops to Afghanistan to stop the resurgence of the Taliban and to fight the real terrorists who attacked this country on 9-11.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049313", "text": "If the president and Democrats in Congress have not realized this, however, the average Americans who feel the pain of unemployment, housing and gas prices certainly have.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000049314", "text": "My administration will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, nor will we allow Iran to endanger the rest of the world with a fresh supply of ballistic missiles and conventional arms.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049315", "text": "This Executive order is critical to enforcing the U.N. arms embargo on Iran.", "issue": "embargo"}
{"id": "0000049316", "text": "The United States has now restored U.N. sanctions on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049317", "text": "The requirements of our nation's economy for energy and the overall costs and benefits of various sources of energy must be considered in deciding whether to develop oil and gas offshore.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049318", "text": "And, it provides an important downpayment on the investment we need in vaccine procurement and distribution, helping deliver these incredible vaccines around the country and offer the American people protection and peace of mind that there will be light at the end of the tunnel.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049319", "text": "In these circumstances, the result not only distorts trade and reduces economic efficiency but it diminishes the purchasing power of scarce defense resources.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049320", "text": "We stand today at the brink of war between Iraq and the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049321", "text": "This is a war that began with your invasion of Kuwait; this is a war that can be ended only by Iraq's full and unconditional compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 678.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049322", "text": "Should war come, it will be a far greater tragedy for you and your country.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049323", "text": "If the FMLN would embrace that goal, we are confident that this tragic war can come to an end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049324", "text": "The United States is committed to the defense of democracy and human rights in El Salvador.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049325", "text": "They emphasized the important role of private investment in improving the economy of Czechoslovakia.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049326", "text": "The President and the Prime Minister discussed the issue of lending to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049327", "text": "The United States and many other Western countries and the President himself have repeatedly called upon China to initiate a process leading to real improvements in human rights.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049328", "text": "China has continued to permit emigration to the United States without interruption over the past 12 months.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049329", "text": "In the notification to Congress, the President reaffirmed that the sanctions against China he authorized in June 1989 remain in force.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049330", "text": "U.S. policy remains that normal relations with China are not possible until China takes further major steps to respect human rights and returns to the path of reform.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049331", "text": "He commends the U.S. military for the impressive job it has done in carrying out all phases of this operation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049332", "text": "After this time, decisions about Board constitution and members' terms should be left to the discretion of the Board.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000049333", "text": "Decisions regarding war and peace are among the most important any President faces.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049334", "text": "We have spent over $1 billion on a war that this administration has fought not with the consent of Congress but under a NATO flag and authorization from the United Nations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049335", "text": "The situation in Libya is a civil war contained within that country's sovereign borders, and it presented no imminent threat to the United States.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049336", "text": "But science tells us that if we support our children, educators, and communities with the resources they need, we can get kids back to school safely in more parts of the country sooner.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049337", "text": "No matter how this conflict started, Russia has escalated it well beyond the dispute over South Ossetia and invaded another country.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049338", "text": "We want Russia to play its rightful role as a great nation - but with that role comes the responsibility to act as a force for progress in this new century, not regression to the conflicts of the past.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049339", "text": "He or she will have to end the war in Iraq responsibly, because this President has no plan to end it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049340", "text": "We all agree that the Iraq war must end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049341", "text": "This war must end but it matters profoundly how we end it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049342", "text": "This excuse about 'we didn't expect the war to last this long so we didn't build MRAPS' is outrageous.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049343", "text": "Before the war started, I urged the President repeatedly to level with the American people about the cost, the risk and the likely duration of this war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049344", "text": "Neither the President nor some of the leaders in the Pentagon acted like we were a nation at war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049345", "text": "We have to end this war responsibly and push for a political settlement that brings stability to Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049346", "text": "During an event in New Hampshire a democratic voter called for an end to the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049347", "text": "When it comes to the single most important issue facing our country - how to end the war in Iraq responsibly - it is important to be clear and consistent.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049348", "text": "Explicitly denies you the authority to go into Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049349", "text": "That's how this war will end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049350", "text": "And so the danger of using good versus evil in the context of war is it may lead us to be not as critical as we should be about our own actions and that's something that I am very wary about.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049351", "text": "I have called for tougher sanctions against Iran for years.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049352", "text": "The second part of my plan is a $50 billion stimulus to help jump-start job creation and help local communities that are struggling due to our economic downturn.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000049353", "text": "Half of this stimulus will go to state governments that are facing big budget shortfalls.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000049354", "text": "He's proposing to cut the gasoline tax paid by the oil companies and trust that they will pass on the savings in the form of lower prices at the pump.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049355", "text": "A decision to extend the military's buildup would mean painful choices for the Army Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049356", "text": "Sapped by nearly six years of war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force and its options if the Bush administration decides to extend the Iraq buildup beyond next spring.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049357", "text": "The 38 combat brigades currently available for war will expand to 48 by 2013.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049358", "text": "The recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino have further confirmed that radical Islamic terrorists are at war with the West.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049359", "text": "These bills will help us rebuild and invest in the military, with a $22 billion increase in defense spending , a pay raise of 3.1 percent for the troops, and the establishment of the United States Space Force.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049360", "text": "It will make the most significant investment in America's roads, bridges, mass transit, and other infrastructure since the construction of the Interstate Highway System.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049361", "text": "They have faced persistent discrimination in the workplace and barriers posed by inaccessible public transportation, public accommodations, and telecommunications.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049362", "text": "All of the American electorate will benefit from these measures to strengthen our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049363", "text": "This historic legislation strengthens the barriers and sanctions against employment discrimination.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049364", "text": "Diamonds also are critical to the economic growth and development of African and other countries, so preserving their legitimate trade is an important foreign policy objective.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049365", "text": "HOPE grants are eligible to be used in public housing and vacant, foreclosed, and distressed single-family and multifamily properties.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049366", "text": "The bill provides funds to pursue the war on terror, advance other United States interests around the globe, and support our Armed Forces.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049367", "text": "Notwithstanding these reservations, I have signed the bill because the war on drugs and violent crime is one of our Nation's most important priorities.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049368", "text": "The Congress has also increased the maximum single-family mortgage above $125 thousand -- an amount that was agreed upon by the Congress and the Administration in the National Affordable Housing Act.", "issue": "mortgage"}
{"id": "0000049369", "text": "Today I have signed an Executive order implementing sanctions on Syria pursuant to the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000049370", "text": "These sanctions will significantly reduce the level of trade and commercial activity between our two countries and, in particular, target entities and officials in or closely associated with the Syrian Government who have engaged in actions of concern specified in the act.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049371", "text": "Since 1979, the United States has designated Syria a state sponsor of terrorism due to its support for groups such as Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorist organizations.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049372", "text": "Agriculture will greatly benefit from the reduction of the Federal deficit because interest rates and inflation will be less.", "issue": "Agriculture"}
{"id": "0000049373", "text": "The provisions contained in the bill reflecting Congressional support for the Philippines Multilateral Assistance Initiative, the Stabilization and Enterprise Funds for Poland, and my initiative to help our Andean partners in our shared war on drugs are particularly welcome.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049374", "text": "Section 686 makes seven additional plaintiffs with judgments against Iran eligible for payments under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049375", "text": "We must continue to support reformers in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, and the other new states.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049376", "text": "The world has changed, and a solid education is critical for all of us to compete effectively in today's global economy and function as responsible citizens in our American democracy.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049377", "text": "These provisions create important new tools in fighting the war against illegal drugs and other serious criminal activities.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049378", "text": "These amendments will help deter discrimination that might be related to the implementation of employer sanctions under the 1986 law.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049379", "text": "The disruption and dismantling of the criminal organizations that support the international production, processing, and trafficking of drugs are essential components of our national drug control strategy.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000049380", "text": "My Administration is deeply committed to ensuring that every woman in this country has access to affordable, high-quality mammograms.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000049381", "text": "In addition to authorizing inadequate funding for our military, it would have prevented a range of necessary military reforms.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049382", "text": "Environmental education heightens public sensitivity to the consequences of individual and collective actions, while also preparing future environmental management professionals.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049383", "text": "As a result, some claimants from the private sector who have occupationally caused asbestos-related diseases may be able to receive direct Federal compensation under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act Program.", "issue": "Compensation"}
{"id": "0000049384", "text": "Indeed, the GI Bill programs have been widely acclaimed as the best investment America has made.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049385", "text": "Our Nation provides compensation and other monetary benefits to service-disabled veterans and dependency and indemnity compensation benefits to the survivors of those who died as a result of military service to our country.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000049386", "text": "Iran states openly, and with great force, Death to America! and Death to Israel!", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049387", "text": "Iran is considered the world's leading sponsor of terror.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049388", "text": "If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries-and very happy to acquire all of this newfound business.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049389", "text": "The President's call for a worldwide war on smallpox was the second he has made recently on world health matters in connection with the U.S. observance of International Cooperation Year.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049390", "text": "A highly efficient vaccine is available, and the recent development of jet injection equipment makes it possible to vaccinate entire communities with relative ease.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049391", "text": "Contribution of technical personnel and other necessary resources to the Pan American Health Organization, the regional agency of the WHO, to step up the war against smallpox in Latin America.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049392", "text": "The pandemic is widening women's income and wealth gaps, as more than 2 million have dropped out of the labor force, partly reflecting the increased domestic labor demands on women during the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049393", "text": "The cold war has at long last released its grip on world events.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049394", "text": "In lockstep with our European allies, we are enforcing tough sanctions on Russia to impose costs and deter future aggression.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049395", "text": "And in too many places-from China to Egypt, from Russia to Venezuela-women have been swept up in repressive crackdowns on civil society and deprived of their universal rights and fundamental freedoms.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049396", "text": "In fact, if we hadn't declared unconditional war on poverty in America, millions more Americans would be living in poverty today.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049397", "text": "And, in conflicts around the world, rape and sexual violence are used systematically to terrorize civilians-not as incidental to conflict but as a weapon of war itself.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000049398", "text": "While we have made important strides, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have unfortunately also seen too many examples where we are moving in the wrong direction.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049399", "text": "The persistent unequal treatment of women around the world-particularly women of color, LGBTQI+ women, and other women who face overlapping forms of discrimination-remains a critical, unfinished project of our time.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049400", "text": "The American people and government -- who value good relations with the Chinese people and government -- stand ready to develop this relationship as China resumes that path.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049401", "text": "We will fight terrorism in all its forms.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049402", "text": "The people of Yugoslavia have chosen democracy over dictatorship and have sent their former dictator to The Hague.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000049403", "text": "The President of a Central American democracy was asked recently what is the most important step the United States can take.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049404", "text": "As U.S. Ambassador to Germany, he helped Europe emerge from a long cold war and encouraged NATO to welcome new members.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049405", "text": "The progress that we have made in Afghanistan and Pakistan is due in no small measure to Richard's relentless focus on America's national interest and pursuit of peace and security.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049406", "text": "An integral part of our commitment to free trade is our commitment to enforcing trade laws to make sure that America's industries and workers compete on a level playing field.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049407", "text": "Free trade should not mean lax enforcement.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049408", "text": "The detention and interrogation of captured terrorists are critical tools in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049409", "text": "Yet for a full year, they have been held in prison, causing extraordinary grief and uncertainty for them, for their families, and for their loved ones.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049410", "text": "Now, thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049411", "text": "Afghanistan remains a dangerous place, and the Afghan people and their security forces continue to make tremendous sacrifices in defense of their country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049412", "text": "Our military remains the finest in the world, and we will remain vigilant against terrorist attacks and in defense of the freedoms and values we hold dear.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049413", "text": "NATO will remain the essential forum for consultation among its members and the venue for agreement on policies bearing on the security and defense commitments of the Allies under the Washington Treaty.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049414", "text": "This is a challenging and important time for NATO, a cornerstone of transatlantic security that is increasingly called upon to be a cornerstone of global security.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049415", "text": "We stand with the women of Iran, who are facing down violence and oppression to demand their human rights and fundamental freedoms.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049416", "text": "Israel will retain its right to defend itself against terrorism, including to take actions against terrorist organizations.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049417", "text": "First, it must demand that Iran allow immediate inspections at all sites requested by international inspectors.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049418", "text": "If other nations fail to act during this time, I will terminate our deal with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049419", "text": "Inflation hurts Americans pocketbooks, and reversing this trend is a top priority for me.", "issue": "Inflation"}
{"id": "0000049420", "text": "Russia's brutal and unprovoked war on its neighbor Ukraine has shattered peace in Europe and impacted stability everywhere, and its reckless nuclear threats endanger the global non-proliferation regime.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049421", "text": "The pandemic made these problems worse, reinforcing the need for urgent, sustained action.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049422", "text": "As commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, he helped transform our Nation's military so it could better face the new threats of a new century.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049423", "text": "Since I announced a new U.S. opening to Burma in November, President Thein Sein, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the people of Burma have made significant progress along the path to democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049424", "text": "It is a hostile army that brutalizes and steals from the Iranian people to fund terrorism abroad.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000049425", "text": "Every day's delay increases the cruel tax that inflation and rising interest rates impose on every American family.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049426", "text": "DURING my 4 years in the Presidency, I have fought discrimination in employment in all of its ugly forms with every power of my office.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049427", "text": "On September 8, 1966, I outlined a further program to help fight inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049428", "text": "The first stage--$41 million in four projects-will open a new front in the war on poverty.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049429", "text": "A SHORTAGE of fresh water is one of the most critical problems facing the nations of the world.", "issue": "SHORTAGE"}
{"id": "0000049430", "text": "We will still face the great questions of war and peace, of providing a better life for our people, of caring for those in need.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049431", "text": "Today, the UN added key ISIL facilitators to the al-Qaida Sanctions List-an action that underscores the international community's unity and commitment to disrupting ISIL's financial activities.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000049432", "text": "Earlier this month, in a special message on crime to the Congress, I expressed the will and the determination of this administration to act.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049433", "text": "They must all be willing to examine the problem of crime, and the means their States and cities are taking to combat it.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049434", "text": "Our hopes demand new excellence in academic science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049435", "text": "A strong NATO remains essential if we are to reach a solid agreement with the Soviet Union that reflects the common interest of each of the allied nations in peace and security.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049436", "text": "Naturally, each member of NATO sees the alliance and the international organization that serves it from its own perspective.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049437", "text": "Last January 16, Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Canada and I signed an agreement looking toward free trade in automobiles and automotive products between our two countries.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049438", "text": "We recognize that speedy justice is both an essential of fairness and a meaningful deterrent to crime; yet we have permitted our criminal courts to flounder in delay, lack of dignity, and the tortuous disposition of criminal cases.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049439", "text": "It created new horizons for education, for health and medical care, for conservation, for civil rights and the war on poverty.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049440", "text": "In Government, as in industry, rapid change will continue to cause dislocations in employment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049441", "text": "Today, Iran is ruled by men who suppress liberty at home and spread terror across the world.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049442", "text": "But the process of freeing trade from unnecessary restrictions will not come to an end when the current important Kennedy Round negotiations are completed.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049443", "text": "This new plant and equipment-embodying the most modern technology__ offers great future promise for lowering the costs and improving the quality of steel.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049444", "text": "For example, the rise in car thefts closely parallels the rise in car sales; the spreading use of credit cards or self-service markets brings an increase of crime in suburbs as well as cities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049445", "text": "The use of public-private neighborhood corporations under the demonstration cities program, which should soon be enacted, will be a major step against crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049446", "text": "These rules must be adjusted to expand international trade further.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049447", "text": "The added interest costs end up as a further tax on the consumer.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049448", "text": "Nations afflicted by the disease of inflation must carry forward their programs to bring stability to their currencies.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049449", "text": "Crime cannot be conquered, in this or any other city, unless citizens are willing to help.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000049450", "text": "Pollution is an inevitable consequence of an advanced society, but we need not suffer from the intensity and extent of pollution we now see around us.", "issue": "Pollution"}
{"id": "0000049451", "text": "The filling in of these shallow waters must be regarded as an important kind of pollution.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000049452", "text": "Under my leadership, Project Warp Speed has been a tremendous success, my administration and I developed a vaccine many years ahead of wildest expectations, and we are distributing these vaccines, and others soon coming, to millions of people.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049453", "text": "I therefore have permitted the escape clause tariff on typewriter ribbon cloth and stainless steel flatware to terminate.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000049454", "text": "However, I have asked the responsible Federal departments to maintain surveillance over these industries to determine if other assistance is appropriate at a later date.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000049455", "text": "NASA has brought us advances in medical science, education, mapmaking, geology, transportation, and a host of other areas that promise a better life for us here on earth.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049456", "text": "As a result, American science today leads the world--free, unfettered, and devoted to the ends of bettering the condition of man in every land.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049457", "text": "The manner in which such funds are spent clearly has a most important effect upon advanced education in this country and upon the future of our Nation's universities.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049458", "text": "At the apex of this educational pyramid, resting on the essential foundation provided for the lower levels, is the vital top segment where education and research become inseparable", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049459", "text": "The Federal Government has supported academic research in agriculture for over a half century and in the physical sciences, life sciences, and engineering since World War II; the returns on this national investment have been immense.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049460", "text": "Over 25, 000 graduate students in engineering, mathematics, physical and life sciences are supported indirectly by employment under these research grants and contracts.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049461", "text": "BY MAKING available its vast resources and the diverse skills of its men and women, the Department of Defense has greatly assisted our national mobilization for the war on poverty.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049462", "text": "There is no sane description of a nuclear war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049463", "text": "Business leaders interested in Latin American investment have been invited to the Cabinet Room frequently to discuss steps to help the people of the hemisphere.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049464", "text": "This is as it should be--there must be constant and vigilant concern for the welfare of the men and women who serve their Nation in the Federal service.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000049465", "text": "Thus, for every dollar of the taxpayer's money, we will be getting $20 of private investment, to help solve an acute social problem.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049466", "text": "This war on poverty, however, will not be won overnight.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049467", "text": "I regret the necessities of war have compelled us to bomb North Viet-Nam.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049468", "text": "Nor can the continuation of the war be used to doubt the sincerity of our peaceful purpose.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049469", "text": "All represent the best in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049470", "text": "The bill also permits the Army and the Air Force to award scholarships comparable to those which have been authorized for the Navy since 1947 under the so-called Holloway plan.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049471", "text": "THE UNITED STATES is facing a critical shortage of manpower in carrying out its commitment to improve health care for our citizens.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000049472", "text": "TODAY we open another front in our war on waste--waste of human resources, productive skills, and money.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049473", "text": "This measure establishes a uniform tariff on imports of reprocessed wool fabrics or blends of such fabrics.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000049474", "text": "Consequently, importers have been able to escape the higher wool tariff by blending reprocessed wool fabrics with small amounts of high value non-wool material.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000049475", "text": "While Italy--the principal supplier--sends only 20 percent of its exports of these fabrics to the United States, it is still an important item in the trade between our two nations.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049476", "text": "It would be most unfortunate if this tariff had the effect of stifling all imports of these products to the United States.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000049477", "text": "AMERICAN democracy is founded on the rule of law.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049478", "text": "This shortage is so critical that it challenges our ability even to maintain past levels of competence, much less to meet the fast-growing demands of today and tomorrow.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000049479", "text": "I was not speaking of war or plague or famine.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049480", "text": "I was speaking of a global water shortage that even now is making itself felt.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000049481", "text": "Last February, in my message on crime in America, I urged the Congress to promptly correct this omission in our laws.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049482", "text": "Now, for the first time, it will be a serious crime to obstruct a Federal criminal investigation through bribery, intimidation, force, or threats of force.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049483", "text": "The work of fighting crime ranks as one of the most pressing responsibilities of the Nation's communities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049484", "text": "We are committed to the cause of preventing crime where it can be prevented.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049485", "text": "We intend to continue the war against poverty with a determination strengthened by our progress over the past 2 years.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049486", "text": "The illegal possession of such a drug is made a misdemeanor punishable by up to 1 year in prison and a $1, 000 fine.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000049487", "text": "Others do not make the penalty fit the crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049488", "text": "Enlisted men are already exempt from Federal tax on the pay they receive while serving in the battle zone.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049489", "text": "More than 50 million young Americans-from kindergarten through graduate school--have been reached through the greatest commitment to education we have ever made.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049490", "text": "By making American goods more competitive in foreign markets, this new measure will help to expand our export trade and to move our balance of payments closer to equilibrium.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049491", "text": "No price can be set on the promise which might have enriched a young life, but did not--because the right teacher was not there at the right time.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049492", "text": "No more serious domestic problem faces America than the growing menace of crime in our streets.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049493", "text": "The Tax Surcharge--to combat inflation and prevent a high interest rate spiral.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049494", "text": "For, in the last analysis, we must all be united in a common cause to avoid inflation and sustain and enlarge our prosperity.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049495", "text": "Establishing a pioneering aid-to-education program of forgivable college loans and tuition grants to attract better law enforcement officers and give them better education and preparation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049496", "text": "We need not surrender our privacy to win the war on crime.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049497", "text": "In the meantime, I have instructed the Secretary of the Army to refrain from exercising the authority which section 201 attempts to vest in him.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049498", "text": "With the enactment of the tax bill, our democracy passed a critical test.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049499", "text": "It was the end of the war to end war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049500", "text": "We welcome Libya's formal renunciation of terrorism and Libyan support in the global war against terrorism, but we must establish confidence that Libya has made a strategic decision that is being carried out in practice by all Libyan agencies and officials.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049501", "text": "In defiance of its international obligations, Syria did not inform the International Atomic Energy Agency of the construction of the reactor, and, after it was destroyed, the regime moved quickly to bury evidence of its existence.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000049502", "text": "H.R. 4011, the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, which will promote human rights and freedom in North Korea, and authorize humanitarian assistance to North Koreans.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000049503", "text": "In an effort to preserve itself, the Maduro dictatorship rewards and enriches corrupt officials in the government's security apparatus by burdening future generations of Venezuelans with massively expensive debts.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000049504", "text": "In the case of an emergency, surveillance can begin immediately and FISA approval can be obtained later.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000049505", "text": "Stone would be put at serious medical risk in prison.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049506", "text": "Papadopoulos was charged with a process-related crime, one count of making false statements, in connection with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049507", "text": "She served 10 years in prison for releasing her K-9 partner on a burglary suspect in 1995, resulting in a bite wound requiring ten stitches.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049508", "text": "Crystal Munoz has spent the past 12 years in prison as a result of a conviction for having played a small role in a marijuana smuggling ring.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049509", "text": "During his time in prison, Mr. Musa has strengthened his faith and taken dozens of educational courses.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049510", "text": "During her time in prison, Ms. Shayota mentored those who wanted to improve their lives and demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to rehabilitation.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049511", "text": "Levandowski has paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049512", "text": "Since his release from prison, Mr. Conway has led a successful life and currently runs 10 restaurant businesses that employ nearly 500 people.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049513", "text": "Since his conviction and release from prison, he has demonstrated remorse and accepted responsibility for his crime, which he committed approximately 50 years ago when he was just 19 years old.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049514", "text": "Since his conviction and release from prison, Mr. Freeman has led a law-abiding life.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049515", "text": "Upon his release, Mr. Braun will seek employment to support his wife and children.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049516", "text": "Notably, no one suffered financially as a result of his crime and he has no other criminal record.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049517", "text": "Since his release from prison, he has spent significant time volunteering at his church, mentoring youth, and has earned a certification as an Emergency Medical Technician.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049518", "text": "Miller, who has struggled with drug addiction, has fully committed to rehabilitation while in prison.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049519", "text": "Nahas spent 1 month in prison in 2003 and has spent the subsequent 18 years working tirelessly to regain the trust and admiration of his patients, colleagues, and community.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049520", "text": "Prior to the pandemic, Mr. Khan volunteered at the organization 3 Square Meals, and has regularly donated to charities including St. Jude Children's Hospital, Boys Town, Covenant House, Tunnel to Towers Foundation, and the Salvation Army.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049521", "text": "While the rial has lost half of its value since the beginning of 2012 as a result of our comprehensive sanctions, this is the first time that trade in the rial has been targeted directly for sanctions.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049522", "text": "The significant transactions for the purchase, sale of, or holding of significant funds or accounts outside Iran denominated in the Iranian rial.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049523", "text": "Early this morning, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement implemented a 2004 order of deportation to the Federal Republic of Germany of Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi SS labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland and a postwar resident of Queens, New York.", "issue": "deportation"}
{"id": "0000049524", "text": "Despite a court ordering his deportation in 2004, past administrations were unsuccessful in removing Palij.", "issue": "deportation"}
{"id": "0000049525", "text": "Through extensive negotiations, President Trump and his team secured Palij's deportation to Germany and advanced the United States' collaborative efforts with a key European ally.", "issue": "deportation"}
{"id": "0000049526", "text": "Over the past six months, our diplomats have engaged in intensive negotiations with Iran to reach that goal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049527", "text": "As we follow developments in Ukraine closely, the United States reaffirms its unwavering commitment to our collective defense commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049528", "text": "Russia also is opening its services market in sectors that are priorities to American companies, including audio-visual, telecommunications, financial services, computer, and retail services.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049529", "text": "From day one of its membership in the WTO, Russia will be required to comply with WTO rules on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including with respect to key rights relied on by U.S. creative and innovative industries.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049530", "text": "To this day, Iran threatens the United States and our allies, undermines the international financial system, and supports terrorism and militant proxies around the world.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049531", "text": "In addition, the US leads the global effort to fight COVID, delivering more free vaccines to other countries than every other nation on Earth.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000049532", "text": "We must get a vaccine approved for the youngest children.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049533", "text": "We must fight the virus overseas, prepare for new waves, and new variants-all of which can be coming.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000049534", "text": "A successful START treaty will reduce the risk of war, but will not diminish our need to rely on modernized, effective strategic forces for continued deterrence.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049535", "text": "The two Presidents urged North Korea to promptly complete its commitments in the second phase of the denuclearization process and, through third-phase actions, to implement full abandonment of all its nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000049536", "text": "Broad-based Cooperation President Bush expressed deep appreciation for the contribution Korea has made to peace and reconstruction in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflict areas.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000049537", "text": "One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049538", "text": "Moreover, the goal of any political process should be a government that respects the rights of all people, majority and minority; that institutionalizes the checks and balances upon which democracy depends; and that places the interests of the people above party or faction.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049539", "text": "The balance of the funds, together with assistance from the European Union and other partners, will help the Government of Georgia rebuild critical infrastructure and help local communities and businesses get back on their feet.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049540", "text": "The Syrian people demonstrated in large numbers across Syria yesterday to participate in peaceful protests commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Hama massacre.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000049541", "text": "Asad has no right to lead Syria and has lost all legitimacy with his people and the international community.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000049542", "text": "A Syria without Asad could be a Syria in which all Syrians are subject to the rule of law and where minorities are able to exercise their legitimate rights and uphold their identities and traditions while acting as fully enfranchised citizens in a unified republic.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000049543", "text": "What the United States will support is an effort to bring about a Syria that is democratic, just, and inclusive for all Syrians.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000049544", "text": "Consistent with this administration's commitment to free and open trade, the voluntary restraint arrangements will end on March 31, 1992.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049545", "text": "And Russia's brutal and unprovoked aggression in Ukraine has shattered peace in Europe and constitutes an attack on fundamental tenets of international order.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049546", "text": "China also has a responsibility as an NPT nuclear weapons state and a member of the P5 to engage in talks that will reduce the risk of miscalculation and address destabilizing military dynamics.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049547", "text": "We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000049548", "text": "This agreement marks the largest investment in the NIH in a decade-$32 billion-that will mean more clinical trials for patients and more research grants for next-generation scientists.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049549", "text": "The last time I sat with Shimon back in March, at his Center for Peace in Tel Aviv, he said we gave up war, because war led nowhere.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049550", "text": "The President has committed to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049551", "text": "The package of trade initiatives described below is designed to create opportunities for expanded trade and investment between the countries of the Andean region and the United States.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049552", "text": "More than a decade after the landmark passage of the Affordable Care Act, as we emerge from a once-in-a-century pandemic, we are on our way to truly making health care a right and not a privilege.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049553", "text": "Such matters include structural impediments to trade, balance-of-payments adjustment, and such issues as bid-rigging, market allocation, and group boycotts.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049554", "text": "In October, my administration publicized our assessment that Russia took actions intended to interfere with the U.S. election process.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049555", "text": "The decision to clear a vaccine means little if Americans cannot get a vaccination on a timely basis.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049556", "text": "The distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine will be a major endeavor, requiring seamless coordination among many officials - a logistical and implementation challenge of the highest order.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049557", "text": "First, all necessary resources to fight the pandemic should be authorized immediately - without delay.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049558", "text": "Instead, President Trump has repeatedly denied that Russia interfered in our elections, most egregiously during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, 2018.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049559", "text": "For the estimated 61 million Americans now living with a disability, the ADA has been a critical source of opportunity, participation, self-sufficiency, and respect - a triumph of American civil rights.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000049560", "text": "His withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal has only put Iran back on the path toward a nuclear weapon and cost us the confidence of our allies and partners in the process.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049561", "text": "Second, clinical data for any vaccine the FDA approves should be made available to the public for independent expert review.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049562", "text": "In Afghanistan, the United States is supporting humanitarians working around the clock to protect the most vulnerable, including women and girls.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049563", "text": "People facing persecution and fleeing the coup and subsequent violence in Burma are receiving critical protection services from aid workers.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000049564", "text": "This is the price media workers and their families are paying to tell us the story of Putin's unjust and brutal war in Ukraine.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049565", "text": "We support programs that provide food, water, shelter, and medical care to refugees and fight for their rights to safety, dignity, and long-term livelihood opportunities.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000049566", "text": "The copper shortage is causing some civilian production to close down.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000049567", "text": "The chapter, again, on current account balances talks about policy reforms in China and emphasizes that when you think about the broad set of policy reforms that China probably needs to facilitate current account adjustment, but also just economic development there.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049568", "text": "The other key point that the chapter makes about the corporate income tax is that distortions induced by having different rates of taxation on different forms of investment and on different sources for that investment leads to distortions in the economy that are very costly.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049569", "text": "And we all face the threat that our critical infrastructure will be compromised by a cyberattack.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049570", "text": "The recent EC-U.S. agreement expanding customs cooperation will improve security standards while continuing to facilitate trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049571", "text": "We fully support the work of the U.N. in addressing the humanitarian and human rights crises in Darfur.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000049572", "text": "We affirm that bold investment and strategic public funding are necessary to achieve these goals.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049573", "text": "We will transform our military to meet the new threats of the 21st Century and provide the brave men and women on the front lines with the resources they need to be successful in this decisive ideological struggle.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049574", "text": "And we will invest in the science, research, and technology that will lead to new medical breakthroughs, new discoveries, and entire new industries.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049575", "text": "Because of these and other steps, we can safely say we have avoided the depression many feared, and we are no longer facing the potential collapse of our financial system.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000049576", "text": "We are using new technology to make Government more accessible to the American people.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049577", "text": "To flourish in the global economy, we need a world-class infrastructure-the roads, rails, runways, and information superhighways that are fundamental to commerce.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049578", "text": "While this transportation bill is a major investment of funds, it is also a major reform of how transportation funds have been invested in the past.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049579", "text": "In addition, the end of our military activities in Iraq and the wind-down of operations in Afghanistan will mean that the country will spend 24 percent less on overseas contingency operations this year than it did last year, saving $30 billion.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049580", "text": "We also know that education and lifelong learning will be critical for anyone trying to compete for the jobs of the future.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049581", "text": "In this Budget, we are sustaining our level of investment in non-defense research and development even as overall spending declines, thereby keeping us on track to double R&D funding in the key R&D agencies.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049582", "text": "We make important investments in the science and research needed to tackle the most important environmental challenges of our time, and we are investing in fields as varied as cyber-security, nano-technology, and advanced manufacturing.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049583", "text": "Providing a year of free, public preschool education for 4-year-old children is an important investment in our future.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049584", "text": "It promotes clean energy with investments in technologies like solar and by expanding and making permanent the tax credit for the production of renewable energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049585", "text": "We made the largest investment in clean energy in our history, and made health care reform a reality.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049586", "text": "Providing opportunity to all Americans means tackling poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049587", "text": "It also supports efforts to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration through criminal justice reform.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049588", "text": "It is a plan to fight a war we did not seek-but a war we are determined to win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049589", "text": "We remain at war with an enemy that seeks to use murder, stealth, and fear against all free nations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049590", "text": "The people of Afghanistan have been freed from the oppressive regime that sponsors the terrorists who planned and carried out the attacks of September 11, 2001.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049591", "text": "Afghanistan, which once was ruled by the repressive Taliban regime, now has adopted a new constitution, taking a fundamental step on the path to democracy.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000049592", "text": "This Nation has committed itself to the long war against terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049593", "text": "In addition, the 2006 Budget supports the development of technology and innovation throughout our economy.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049594", "text": "Thus, we are fighting this war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049595", "text": "Unprecedented and globally coordinated fiscal and monetary stimulus is playing a major role in helping to restore private demand and lending.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000049596", "text": "We agreed to strengthen financial market infrastructure by accelerating the implementation of strong measures to improve transparency and regulatory oversight of hedge funds, credit rating agencies and over-the-counter derivatives in an internationally consistent and non-discriminatory way.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049597", "text": "We will minimize any negative impact on trade and investment of our domestic policy actions, including fiscal policy and action to support the financial sector.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049598", "text": "Open trade will yield significant benefits for all and can facilitate global rebalancing.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049599", "text": "We agreed to strengthen financial market infrastructure by accelerating the implementation of strong measures to improve transparency and regulatory oversight of hedge funds, credit rating agencies and over-the-counter derivatives in an internationally consistent and non-discriminatory way.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049600", "text": "We will minimize any negative impact on trade and investment of our domestic policy actions, including fiscal policy and action to support the financial sector.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049601", "text": "Open trade will yield significant benefits for all and can facilitate global rebalancing.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049602", "text": "We agreed to strengthen financial market infrastructure by accelerating the implementation of strong measures to improve transparency and regulatory oversight of hedge funds, credit rating agencies and over-the-counter derivatives in an internationally consistent and non-discriminatory way.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049603", "text": "We will minimize any negative impact on trade and investment of our domestic policy actions, including fiscal policy and action to support the financial sector.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049604", "text": "Open trade will yield significant benefits for all and can facilitate global rebalancing.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049605", "text": "We welcome the agreement on a new constitution for Afghanistan, and place particular emphasis on creating the conditions for free, fair and peaceful elections in Afghanistan later this year.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000049606", "text": "We reaffirm our commitment to NATO as the anchor of our collective defense and an essential forum for transatlantic consultations.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049607", "text": "Slightly more than one year ago, in Guanajuato, we talked about migration as one of the major ties that join our societies.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000049608", "text": "I'm also opposed to Federal funding of abortion except in the case of a threat to the life of the mother.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000049609", "text": "Well if there is in fact any terrorism, President Reagan has said terrorists can run but cannot hide.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049610", "text": "Agriculture is part of the fabric that makes America great.", "issue": "Agriculture"}
{"id": "0000049611", "text": "As secretary of housing and urban development, I will continue to carry that dream of freedom with me.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049612", "text": "This will require strong alliances, expanding trade, advancing our ideals and interests with a clear and consistent diplomacy.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049613", "text": "Strengthen the bond of trust between the president and the military, rebuilding morale, it means never forgetting that ours is a military of volunteers.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049614", "text": "And, finally, we must work to change our military to meet the threats of a new century.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049615", "text": "It should reconfirm our nation's commitment to free trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049616", "text": "I think free trade will be a stimulus for economic activity all around the world.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000049617", "text": "But ours will be an administration of free trade, less regulations that affect the flow of capital around the world, and one based upon humility, as well as the confidence in free markets and the entrepreneurial spirit.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049618", "text": "The commitment to excellence in education is one that he shares.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049619", "text": "And the Sandinistas, regrettably, have not been willing to take the steps toward democracy that I find absolutely essential if we are going to have harmony in Central America.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049620", "text": "We must meet rising demand for energy with new domestic exploration and production.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049621", "text": "Spence is a veteran of the White House, he understands the Congress and will be an effective member of my Cabinet.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000049622", "text": "Since then, Inaugurations have taken place during times of war and peace; in Depression and prosperity.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049623", "text": "It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049624", "text": "So in Vietnam, for example, U.S. auto exports face a 70 percent tariff, 74 percent tariff on motorcycles, 32 percent tariff on auto parts.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000049625", "text": "Obligations to prevent governments from replacing tariffs with non-tariff barriers.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000049626", "text": "And when Russia flouted those rules because of its violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, the decision was taken collectively that Russia should not participate in upcoming G7 meetings.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049627", "text": "And, in fact, we've been deeply engaged in discussions with Russia about the cessation of hostilities that we've sought to preserve within Syria about the efforts to promote a peace process in Geneva.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049628", "text": "Another issue in which we've worked very persistently with China over the years is the Iranian nuclear issue.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049629", "text": "And then China was side-by-side with us at the table and the P5+1 discussions that resulted in the breakthrough and the nuclear deal that was reached to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049630", "text": "Secondly, the United States believes that it's time for China -- it's important that China should share responsibility for sustaining the rules-based international economic system.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049631", "text": "This system, which was put in place with a lot of work by the United States and others, has benefitted China and enabled its rise.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049632", "text": "We made very clear to China our deep concerns about certain cyber activities.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049633", "text": "On Iran, China was instrumental in reaching the P5+1 agreement.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049634", "text": "China has benefitted from a stable Asia Pacific; benefitted from good relations with the ASEAN countries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049635", "text": "So China does need to be mindful of the broad concerns in the United States on certain issues.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049636", "text": "There will then be a working session on terrorism, where the leaders will be joined by, among others, Prime Minister Abadi of Iraq, the new President of Nigeria, Buhari, and the Tunisian President.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049637", "text": "So the leaders will certainly review the current situation in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049638", "text": "Furthermore, of course, it's important for Russia to understand that should it continue to have further escalation in Ukraine, it could be faced with additional consequences.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049639", "text": "The leaders will also discuss Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049640", "text": "I think they see Ukraine as directly in the neighborhood.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049641", "text": "So not to -- there's still enormous economic challenges facing Ukraine and, of course, the military challenge of Russia and the separatists.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049642", "text": "We share an interest in countering terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049643", "text": "Where they are related is in our strong belief that an Iran armed with a nuclear weapon, or the capability to amass enough material for a nuclear weapon would pose a much greater risk to the region than an Iran that is without one.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049644", "text": "That is, keeping sanctions in place is not a recipe for preventing Iran from causing mischief.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049645", "text": "One is to respond to Russian actions in Ukraine by providing political and security assistance to Ukraine, and by bolstering NATO's overall reassurance efforts, both in NATO territory and beyond NATO territory.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049646", "text": "And number three, that the posture of Russia in Ukraine is causing divisions and challenges to Putin at home.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049647", "text": "At this point in time, the issue of NATO membership for Ukraine is not under discussion in the alliance, but I think the general posture of the United States and its allies is that the door is open and that this conversation will continue.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049648", "text": "On who will attend from Afghanistan, I think I'd refer you to the Afghan government on that.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049649", "text": "And the leaders of NATO have greater latitude in moving forward on defense spending, on making commitments to new contributions, because they are now in democracies where their publics are much more attuned to possible threats that are emerging from Russia.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049650", "text": "On the issue of employment, CBO's central estimate is that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would lead to a 0.3 percent decrease in employment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049651", "text": "So, in summary, overall the report very much does make the case for a policy that benefits more than 16.5 million workers, reduces poverty, raises incomes.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049652", "text": "This is important -- it did say that 0.3 percent decrease in employment, and that there was a range where that range included essentially no impact on employment and that there were possibilities of estimates beyond that, which presumably would be a small increase in employment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049653", "text": "Regionally, they'll talk about issues like North Korea, Southeast Asia, maritime security and regional economic affairs.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000049654", "text": "They have since, in the last couple of months, committed themselves to tripling agricultural trade, further reducing hunger.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049655", "text": "But also, we've sought to support the greater integration of trade within Africa.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049656", "text": "And also, it's important for the U.N. to consider what potential response the international community should make to these attacks.", "issue": "U.N."}
{"id": "0000049657", "text": "In our view, you cannot have stability in Syria with a leader in Bashar al-Assad who has demonstrated that he is willing to kill innocent men, women, and children within his own country.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000049658", "text": "And we believe that Russia and all members of the international community should be concerned about the use of chemical weapons anywhere in the world given the norms that are established against it.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049659", "text": "We have taken the view that Iran has an opportunity, through diplomacy, to come in line with their international obligations with respect to their nuclear program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049660", "text": "However, we've also made it clear that if Iran fails to meet its obligations, we will steadily ratchet up the pressure.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049661", "text": "We've been working to fully isolate and cut off Iran from the international financial system so that they feel a deeper isolation.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049662", "text": "The combined effect of those actions and a number of the other sanction steps we have taken have resulted in very significant economic impact in Iran that Ben sketched earlier in this call.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049663", "text": "And it is certainly the case that Iran has not yet decided to come in line with their international obligations, which is why we're continuing to build out the sanctions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049664", "text": "So the ability to have a multilateral sanctions regime in place, that was supported by Russia and China among others, has allowed us to broaden the consequences for the Iranian government.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049665", "text": "And we are determined and committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049666", "text": "So clearly, Iran has a set of capabilities that have caused the international community to pass U.N. Security Council resolution after U.N. Security Council resolution.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049667", "text": "We urge them to exercise vigilance in preventing their manufacturers from supplying this kind of equipment.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000049668", "text": "And so, as we tighten the financial sanctions, one of the benefits of that is that it becomes increasingly difficult for Iran to acquire material internationally that it needs.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049669", "text": "With respect to the other subjects that they touched on were Ukraine, given our support for the Ukrainian government and given the focus on the issue here at NATO, the broader NATO Summit agenda.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049670", "text": "I think the key point is that Russia must continue to face costs for its own escalation.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049671", "text": "Those discussions I think will -- today, as you've seen, Ukraine has been a key agenda item, and Afghanistan.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049672", "text": "At the same time, we have seen the threat of terrorism evolve as different groups emerged in places like North Africa.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049673", "text": "And they represent an acute threat in Syria and Iraq today.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000049674", "text": "I think for tomorrow, the outcomes are really focused on NATO as an Alliance and what they're going to do on a range of issues.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049675", "text": "Obviously, the President last year announced that our combat mission in Afghanistan has ended.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049676", "text": "So we've got interests in both places, both for stability in the region -- we've got Jordan on the border with Iraq, et cetera -- and we've got counterterrorism interests.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049677", "text": "It's also focused on protecting critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049678", "text": "For example, with respect to North Korea, we had the authority under the executive order to designate officials -- if we chose -- to designate officials of the government, officials of the Workers' Party.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000049679", "text": "They pay their way in NATO and shoulder their commitments to Europe's defense.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049680", "text": "We've repeatedly condemned Palestinian terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049681", "text": "We've condemned terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049682", "text": "There will be a discussion of Iran both in terms of the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as well as our shared concerns about Iran's destabilizing activities in the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049683", "text": "We always condemn terrorism and we always condemn incitement, and we have done so.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049684", "text": "Iran will be reconfiguring its Arak reactor, which has been a concern of the Israeli government.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049685", "text": "On those other issues, we'll continue to raise our concerns with Iran as we have with respect to American citizens who are detained, as well as to these other destabilizing activities.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049686", "text": "First, the deal was never predicated on the assumption that Iran would moderate its behavior.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049687", "text": "At the same time, we maintain sanctions with respect to terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049688", "text": "So part of this was we arrived at the issue of migration later in the process.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000049689", "text": "So just like any other migrant who reaches our border, they have certain claims that they can pursue, but they'll be treated as other individuals from other countries are.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049690", "text": "Both men and women will need care infrastructure to support an aging population, for example.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049691", "text": "And making it possible for both men and women to engage in paid employment is good for the economy.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049692", "text": "While the pandemic laid bare the challenges for parents and caregivers in addressing conflicts between care and work, the existence of untapped labor supply among prime-age women predates the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049693", "text": "So, we know that care infrastructure supports family wellbeing.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049694", "text": "According to a review of the literature, a 10 percent reduction in the price of childcare would lead to an increase in maternal employment between 0.5 and 2.5 percent, boosting labor force participation.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049695", "text": "And one of the things that, you know, we've been happy to see here has been the overall recovery of payroll employment, and yet there have been some sectors that have just lagged.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000049696", "text": "We think these are the wrong choices by China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049697", "text": "Along our shared border, we jointly address threats through our longstanding close law enforcement cooperation.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049698", "text": "The existing cooperation that we have -- whether information-sharing, such as name checks on refugee processing, or operations at the border to deny terrorist entry -- is really routine and done very, very closely with the Canadian services.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049699", "text": "So, his remarks will speak specifically to the conflict in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049700", "text": "If Russia stops fighting the war in Ukraine and goes home, the war ends.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049701", "text": "And President Biden will, of course, reiterate the ways in which Russia has brutally transgressed the basic principles and norms that govern fundamental -- fundamentally decent international behavior.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049702", "text": "The agreement also addresses global overcapacity from China and toughens enforcement mechanisms to prevent leakage of Chinese and other unfairly traded steel and aluminum into the U.S. market.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049703", "text": "I think Asma had also asked about trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049704", "text": "With respect to the war in Ukraine, the President has made clear from the beginning that the cause of the ripple effects to the global economy and to the American economy from the war is not our response.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049705", "text": "And the broad participation is a reflection of that investment of time and effort and energy, as well as with organized labor, the business community, bipartisan members of Congress and other key stakeholders to chart the way forward.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049706", "text": "I would say if we had had this Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and the agreement therein in place before COVID, I think we could have experienced much less disruption.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000049707", "text": "And finally, the third pillar Commerce is leading on is the tax and anti-corruption.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049708", "text": "This is the oldest and longest continuing war in the hemisphere.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049709", "text": "It's a vibrant democracy and there will be many views, and it's I think very difficult to speak for Colombians, per se, since they're not a monolith.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049710", "text": "For the very first time, the leaders of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea are going to participate.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000049711", "text": "So, under your agreements with Russia, you are obliged to sort of notify these kinds of changes -- any force posture changes.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049712", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed fundamental issues with America's public heath that go far beyond pandemic preparedness.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049713", "text": "When the government invests in infrastructure and families, it acts a partner, not a rival, to private business.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049714", "text": "That, in turn, could reinforce inflation that was already an issue prior to the invasion due to the pandemic, supply chain constraints, and a strong demand for goods.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049715", "text": "This -- we see this inflation across the developed world with other countries that were supporting their households, their workers, their businesses through the pandemic.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049716", "text": "The President is also calling on Congress to ensure that every veteran has a roof over their head.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000049717", "text": "Since our founding, education was intended to be under state and local control.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049718", "text": "Helping the brave Afghans who have supported our work in Afghanistan has been a long bipartisan priority in Washington.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049719", "text": "Thanks to the actions of the Biden-Harris administration and the President's new prescription drug law, called the Inflation Reduction Act, we're tackling the cost of prescription drugs and delivering lower drug costs to millions of people and families across the United States.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000049720", "text": "This file includes a list of drugs that may be cheaper for some people with Medicare as a result of the new drug law.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000049721", "text": "The Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program is strengthening Medicare by making prescription drugs affordable for millions of people and discouraging drug companies from increasing prices faster than inflation.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000049722", "text": "This order empowers older Americans with choice and access; streamlines approval processes for innovative technology; reduces regulatory burdens; and combats waste, fraud, and abuse in the system.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049723", "text": "Even before the coronavirus, we had already made efforts to extend telehealth benefits to seniors.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000049724", "text": "And there just seemed to be a new energy with the new government here in Germany, and we're very thankful for their help.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049725", "text": "But an important part of my job also involves Holocaust education, commemoration, and remembrance.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049726", "text": "In all, this $1.7 billion investment represents the largest CDFI grant program in history.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049727", "text": "Today's announcement represents a historic investment in expanding economic opportunity in low-income communities and creating pathways for more people to realize the American Dream.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049728", "text": "So having the First Lady as a supporter and driver of our efforts on girls' education has already led to a raised awareness of the Let Girls Learn initiative specifically, and the issues around adolescent girls' education more generally.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049729", "text": "And I think that NATO is doing many of the things that the President has asked them to and are certainly which is a major priority to make us more fit for purpose.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049730", "text": "And certainly, Syria will enter the picture as a very important area of focus and dialogue.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000049731", "text": "Girls' education is an important addition to the already robust U.S.-Japan agenda and it speaks to the breadth and the depth of our relationship.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049732", "text": "And actually, China recently said if Japan can face history squarely, there will be opportunity for improvement of Japan and its neighbor's relationship.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049733", "text": "There is still a large number of Americans or, you know, affiliated with Americans, family members still stuck in Afghanistan and are very concerned about those individuals.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049734", "text": "Russia faces limitations in terms of its ability to resupply and to fill out its battalion tactical groups.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049735", "text": "On Iran, the United States' view is straightforward and has been now for quite some time, which is that we're determined to ensure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049736", "text": "In September, as we said, Russia transferred UAVs that it had purchased from Iran into Crimea to use in its war against Ukraine.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049737", "text": "Furthermore, in light of Russia's ongoing supply shortages, we are concerned that Russia may also seek to acquire advanced conventional weapons from Iran, such as surface-to-surface missiles that will almost certainly be used to support the war against Ukraine.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049738", "text": "We're going to make it harder for Iran to sell these weapons to Russia.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049739", "text": "I just wanted to go back on sanctions on Iran for the drone sales to Russia.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049740", "text": "They've supported sanctions within the EU on Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049741", "text": "In each of these areas, NATO and it member countries plays a critical role.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049742", "text": "To state the obvious, as you know, the Taliban, most of whom are Pashtun -- you have 60 percent of the Pashtun population in Pakistan; only 40 percent live in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049743", "text": "Well, I think the President is accurate; we are not now winning the war, but the war is far from lost -- number one.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049744", "text": "But equally important, having taken down that network of sponsors of terror and sources of proliferation has been the establishment of interim governments in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049745", "text": "Well, I think the heart of the strategy is what we're doing both in Afghanistan and Iraq, is to stand up governments that are basically will be created by the people of Iraq.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049746", "text": "But a good defense is not enough, so we've also gone on the offense in the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049747", "text": "America's great wartime leaders, like Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, did not seek to fight a sensitive war, they sought to defeat our enemies decisively.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049748", "text": "When President Bush and I stood on the inaugural platform on the west side of the United States Capitol and took the oath of office, our economy was sliding into recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000049749", "text": "When President Bush and I stood on the inaugural platform on the Capitol steps and took the oath of office, our economy was sliding toward recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000049750", "text": "Now, if you were to listen to our opponents in this election, you would think that America was fighting the war on terror alone.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049751", "text": "When President Bush and I stood on the inaugural platform on the west side of the Capitol and took the oath of office, the economy was sliding into recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000049752", "text": "With the President's leadership, we are fighting the war on terror -- and we will win the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049753", "text": "Because we acted, Afghanistan and Iraq have gone from being terrorist states to free, sovereign nations -- and emerging democracies.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049754", "text": "In the war on terror, we will always seek cooperation from our allies around the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049755", "text": "This year, when it served his political purposes, he described himself as an opponent of the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049756", "text": "The leader who sits in the Oval Office -- and the men and women who represent us on Capitol Hill -- will set the course of the war on terror, and set the direction of the American economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049757", "text": "When President Bush and I stood on the inaugural platform on the west side of the Capitol and took the oath of office, our economy was sliding into recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000049758", "text": "We've also gone on offense on the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049759", "text": "When President Bush and I stood on the inaugural platform on the west front of the Capitol and took the oath of office, our economy was sliding into recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000049760", "text": "Across the world, we are fighting and winning the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049761", "text": "We're making progress in Afghanistan, as well.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049762", "text": "The defeat of tyranny and violence in Afghanistan and Iraq is key to establishing democracy in the heart of the Middle East, and will be a crucial setback for international terror.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049763", "text": "In the war on terror, we will always seek cooperation from our allies around the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049764", "text": "This year, when it served his purpose, he described himself as an opponent of the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049765", "text": "The leader who sits in the Oval Office will set the course for the war on terror, and set the direction for the American economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049766", "text": "When President Bush and I stood on the inaugural platform on the west side of the United States Capitol and took the oath of office, our economy was sliding toward recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000049767", "text": "With the President's leadership, we are fighting the war on terror -- and we will win the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049768", "text": "Because we acted, Afghanistan and Iraq have gone from terrorist states to free, sovereign nations, and emerging democracies.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049769", "text": "In the war on terror, we will always seek cooperation from our allies around the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049770", "text": "This year, when it served his purpose, he described himself as an opponent of the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049771", "text": "The leader who sits in the Oval Office -- and the men and women who represent us on Capitol Hill -- will set the course of the war on terror, and set the direction of the American economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049772", "text": "When President Bush and I stood on the inaugural platform on the west side of the United States Capitol and took the oath of office, the economy was sliding toward recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000049773", "text": "Across the world, we are fighting and we are winning the war on terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049774", "text": "In the war on terror, we will always seek cooperation from our allies around the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049775", "text": "This year, when it served the purpose, he described himself as an opponent of the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049776", "text": "The leader who sits in the Oval Office will set the course for the war on terror, and set the direction of the American economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049777", "text": "That war goes on, and thanks in part to all of you, it's a war that we are going to win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049778", "text": "Afghanistan a little over four years ago was in the grip of a violent, merciless regime that harbored terrorists who plotted murder for export.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049779", "text": "Some have suggested that the war is not winnable, a few seem almost eager to conclude that the whole struggle is already lost.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049780", "text": "Every American serving in this war can be absolutely certain that the people of our country do not support a policy of passivity, resignation, and defeatism in the face of terror.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049781", "text": "In the war on terror we face a loose network of committed fanatics, found in many countries, operating under different commanders.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049782", "text": "Either we are serious about fighting this war or we are not.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049783", "text": "The poverty, poor health, and illiteracy that the terrorists and the Taliban have imposed on women in Afghanistan do not conform with the treatment of women in most of the Islamic world, where women make important contributions in their societies.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049784", "text": "When President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, he had no army, no resources, and no clear strategy to win.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049785", "text": "An enlightened nation, however, with a wise and beneficent constitution of free government, may diminish their frequency and mitigate their severity by directing all its proceedings in accordance with its fundamental law.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000049786", "text": "It will require a strong standing army and probably more than $200, 000, 000 per annum to maintain the supremacy of Negro governments after they are established.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000049787", "text": "This would be simply civil war, and civil war must be resorted to only as the last remedy for the worst of evils.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049788", "text": "This species of corruption has increased, is increasing, and if not diminished will soon bring us into total ruin and disgrace.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000049789", "text": "A modification of the internal-revenue system, by a large reduction in the number of articles now subject to tax, would be followed by results equally advantageous to the citizen and the Government.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049790", "text": "We had the same experience in our second war with Great Britain.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049791", "text": "One of every 20 state inmates in Arkansas is serving time for a meth-related crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049792", "text": "These former state and local elected officials understand firsthand the impact of a federal investment in rebuilding our nation's infrastructure on their communities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049793", "text": "Graham said they collaborated during the Zika outbreak and made an agreement to formally collaborate on vaccines for coronaviruses in 2017.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000049794", "text": "The second action addresses the root causes of migration to our southern border.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000049795", "text": "A member of the vice president's press pool tested positive for COVID-19 this morning and so the POTUS pool is covering today's swearing in ceremony.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000049796", "text": "The two leaders will discuss cooperation on migration, joint development efforts in Southern Mexico and Central America, COVID-19 recovery, and economic cooperation.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000049797", "text": "One of the things that's come up is China's failed to live up to their promise to US imports of a trade agreement done with the previous administration.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049798", "text": "The President's campaign was about fighting for democracy, and we're going to continue to fight for democracy, from the White House.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049799", "text": "He praised her response to the pandemic and the recent shootings at spas in the Atlanta area, saying we saw her strength keeping her city together.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049800", "text": "This is a once in generation, right, type of, type of opportunity we have here, she said after saying polls support the investment in infrastructure.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049801", "text": "In my presence, POTUS has NEVER denigrated any member of the U.S. military or anyone in service to our country.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049802", "text": "As senior leaders of America's military, we took an oath to defend the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049803", "text": "Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights activist, will speak to the rising threat from Communist China and how President Trump is finally standing up to the Chinese after decades of failed appeasement.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049804", "text": "In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as 'a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.'", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000049805", "text": "And I think we paid a price for it.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049806", "text": "A supporter of abortion rights, Harris voted against a bill that would limit abortions to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000049807", "text": "In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as 'a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.'", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000049808", "text": "End mass prosecutions of individuals who cross the border... p. 103 Support Sanctuary Cities Direct DOJ to drop funding restrictions relating to state and local decisions regarding their role in enforcement of federal immigration law.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049809", "text": "And I think we paid a price for it.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049810", "text": "That reduction in the growth rate has led to an accumulated reduction in GDP of about $38.8 trillion as of the end of 2011.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000049811", "text": "President Barack Obama's enemies have long accused him of waging a 'war on coal.'", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049812", "text": "But a very different war on oil and gas is coming next.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049813", "text": "To reach net-zero emissions as rapidly as possible, Democrats commit to eliminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035 through technology-neutral standards for clean energy and energy efficiency.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000049814", "text": "And the reason it got done, was because of a woman I asked to be on the Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000049815", "text": "It was a tax on employers and was supposed to take effect in 2018, but Congress has delayed implementation twice.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049816", "text": "The Trump Administration first tried to get American officials into China in early January; Biden didn't call for sending experts into China until February 25, 50 days later.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049817", "text": "You had thousands of employees making an hourly wage having to sign non-compete agreements.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000049818", "text": "Biden is echoing the sentiments of anti-vaxxers who are calling into question the safety of the vaccine; our nation's public health officials have said the vaccine will be safe when approved.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049819", "text": "In my presence, POTUS has NEVER denigrated any member of the U.S. military or anyone in service to our country.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049820", "text": "The guy who got in trouble in Ukraine was this guy trying to bribe the Ukrainian government to say something negative about me.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049821", "text": "He has caused the deficit with China to go up not down, with China, up not down.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049822", "text": "President Trump and his Administration have taken swift action on the coronavirus from the beginning , leading a whole of government response to the pandemic.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000049823", "text": "Harris' claim is false; the Obama-Biden Administration's deal left Iran with a path to a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049824", "text": "The word science was not scrubbed from U.S. government websites by the Trump Administration.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049825", "text": "While she was with the firm, the Washington Group faced scrutiny for its business relationship with Russia - a country that Democrats have slammed ever since 2016 for pro-Trump election meddling that is thought to be continuing to this day.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049826", "text": "The front-runner also pledged to rebuild America's military and the national economy - two vital pillars of a peaceful and secure world.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049827", "text": "Our porous border represents a huge national security threat, and our refugee system has been abused by terrorists in the past and is likely to be abused by ISIS terrorists today.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049828", "text": "The most shameful war on women is the one Hillary Clinton has waged on her husband's 'girlfriends'.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049829", "text": "Homeland security and strengthening our military are two of the most important issues and cornerstones of my campaign.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049830", "text": "In that role Berntsen led CIA Paramilitary Operations in Eastern Afghanistan on the Shomali Plains, Talaqan and Tora Bora where 135 CIA Officers and 350 Special Forces personnel led indigenous forces to defeat 70, 000 Taliban and 5, 000 Al Qaeda fighters.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049831", "text": "The Obama-Biden administration left the U.S. military massively depleted , leaving American troops less safe in conflicts overseas, and Americans less safe at home.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049832", "text": "This is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria and xenophobia - hysterical xenophobia - and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science, says Biden.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049833", "text": "February 1 - Biden tweets about the coronavirus, again accusing President Trump of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000049834", "text": "In response to President Trump's tweet about his very early decision to close the 'borders' from China, Biden tweeted, Stop the xenophobic fear-mongering.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049835", "text": "Today, the new China is Europe, because Europe now is the major element, the major geographic component, that is now seeding other countries throughout the world.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049836", "text": "Biden has repeatedly dismissed the threat that China poses to American workers.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049837", "text": "Biden supports a job-killing carbon tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000049838", "text": "He even described his support for China as an accomplishment on his website.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049839", "text": "For years, Biden defended China, saying , It is in our self-interest that China continue to prosper, that China's not a problem, and that China is not competition for America.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049840", "text": "When President Trump fought back against Chinese disinformation by accurately stating that the coronavirus originated in China, Biden sided with the Chinese.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000049841", "text": "While Biden is still defending China , President Trump is keeping his promise to stand up to China and hold the Chinese government accountable.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049842", "text": "He is pulling critical supply chains out of China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049843", "text": "The Trump administration has worked to allow the importation of cheaper drugs from Canada and other countries to reduce prescription drug costs.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000049844", "text": "The Trump administration has worked to allow the importation of cheaper drugs from Canada and other countries to reduce prescription drug costs.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000049845", "text": "President Trump restricted travel from China on January 31, a decision that saved American lives.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049846", "text": "President Trump is keeping his promise to develop a vaccine at record speed.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049847", "text": "President Trump restricted travel from China on January 31, a decision that saved American lives.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049848", "text": "President Trump is keeping his promise to develop a vaccine at record speed.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049849", "text": "President Trump restricted travel from China on January 31, a decision that saved American lives.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049850", "text": "President Trump is keeping his promise to develop a vaccine at record speed.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049851", "text": "The organizationis, ostensibly, a development group tasked with bringing investment to the country and educating world leaders about the Colombia's businessopportunities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049852", "text": "We are going to fight for our military and our law enforcement personnel the same way they have fought for us.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049853", "text": "For years, Biden defended China, saying It is in our self-interest that China continue to prosper, that China's not a problem, and that China is not bad and not competition for America.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049854", "text": "Yet another way Trump is embracing extreme minority views during the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049855", "text": "He described her as a brilliant woman, but noted she does not seek out publicity.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000049856", "text": "Joseph R. Biden Jr. will announce a sweeping new $775 billion investment in caregiving programs on Tuesday, with a series of proposals covering care for small children, older adults and family members with disabilities.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049857", "text": "A supporter of abortion rights, Harris voted against a bill that would limit abortions to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000049858", "text": "And he's remained totally silent as violent crime claims more Black lives in Democrat-run cities like Chicago and Atlanta, just as he's remained silent as his supporters attack statues of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and other Founding Fathers.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049859", "text": "Under the Trump administration trade will flourish.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049860", "text": "However, for free trade to bring prosperity to America, it must also be fair trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049861", "text": "We will cut a better deal with China that helps American businesses and workers compete.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049862", "text": "We confronted China head on ...", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049863", "text": "He declared the opioid epidemic a National Public Health Emergency and made available billions of dollars to confront it.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000049864", "text": "No one who's seen the face of war desires to see it again.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049865", "text": "For decades ruling class leaders in both parties sold out our future -- to China, to faceless corporations, and to self-serving lobbyists.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049866", "text": "In this country it means you can speak your mind without retribution -- without being kicked off of social media by a self-righteous censor in Silicon Valley.", "issue": "retribution"}
{"id": "0000049867", "text": "He believes in war without winning, war without end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049868", "text": "President Trump recognized the threat this virus presented for all Americans early on, and made rapid policy changes.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000049869", "text": "The devastating effects of the coronavirus demanded immediate changes at the regulatory level.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000049870", "text": "Just two months later the FDA approved Remdesivir for emergency use to treat COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000049871", "text": "This forced rezoning would bring crime, lawlessness and low-quality apartments into thriving suburban neighborhoods.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049872", "text": "In 2006, the Army sent me to Afghanistan as a young platoon leader placed in command of Americans from every corner of our country.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049873", "text": "Those false promises-spread the wealth, defund the police, trust a socialist state more than your family and community- don't sound radical to my ears.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000049874", "text": "Obama and Biden let North Korea threaten America.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000049875", "text": "They want a government takeover of health care.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000049876", "text": "We faced discrimination and hardship.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049877", "text": "Beijing Biden is so weak on China that the Intelligence Community recently assessed that the Chinese Communist Party favors Biden.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049878", "text": "The first new, major effort to tackle poverty in a generation - Opportunity Zones.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000049879", "text": "Under President Trump's leadership women's unemployment hit the lowest level since World War II.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000049880", "text": "They signed a nuclear deal with Iran, and a global climate agreement in Paris.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049881", "text": "He rebuilt the military, and signed peace deals that make Americans safer.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000049882", "text": "The medical researchers developing a vaccine and therapies to combat what the Chinese Communist regime unleashed on the world.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049883", "text": "A woman in a leadership role still can seem novel.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000049884", "text": "In China, expressing beliefs or ideas not approved by the CCP - religion, democracy, human rights - can lead to prison.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000049885", "text": "In the same way, the virus of the CCP is threatening the people of the world.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000049886", "text": "I was raised on a small family farm here in Iowa, where I learned the importance of faith, hard work and service.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000049887", "text": "When the pandemic hit, President Trump heard us in our call for assistance for our farmers.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049888", "text": "He intends to end the war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000049889", "text": "I fear Biden will choose war again.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049890", "text": "He supported war in Serbia, Syria, and Libya.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049891", "text": "President Trump took the necessary action knowing that agriculture is our backbone and strength, critical to our national security.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000049892", "text": "And he promised to stand up to China and the rest of the world on behalf of the American worker.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049893", "text": "We believe in freedom of religion for all faiths.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000049894", "text": "Joe Biden- the Vice President of the United States- threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine unless that same prosecutor was fired... and then he was fired.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049895", "text": "We believe in freedom of religion for all faiths.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000049896", "text": "Human beings full of value and dignity, but robbed of their potential by this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000049897", "text": "In North Korea, Today, because of President Trump, NATO is stronger, Ukraine has defensive weapons systems and America left a harmful treaty so our nation can now build missiles to deter Russian aggression.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000049898", "text": "Joe Biden's socialist agenda for women is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to impose more government control and fund abortion through taxpayer dollars, said Lara Trump, Trump 2020 Senior Advisor.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000049899", "text": "Strengthening our border will most benefit legal immigrants and working class Americans.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049900", "text": "I went to the border to make sure the American people have the opportunity to see the truth.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000049901", "text": "While President Trump was already taking decisive action to protect the country in the early months, Biden was saying barely anything about the pandemic and continuing about his campaign as normal.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049902", "text": "This is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria and xenophobia - hysterical xenophobia - and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science, says Biden.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049903", "text": "February 1 - Biden tweets about the coronavirus, again accusing President Trump of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000049904", "text": "In response to President Trump's tweet about his very early decision to close the 'borders' from China, Biden tweeted, Stop the xenophobic fear-mongering.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049905", "text": "Meanwhile, President Trump has delivered record investments in Puerto Rico's infrastructure as he fights to bring back the pharmaceutical industry to the island.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049906", "text": "Biden also has advanced the interests of China over his 47 years as a Washington politician, putting their concerns ahead of those of America workers.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049907", "text": "Throughout his mayorship, and during his tenure as a U.S. Associate Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he was known for his toughness on crime and leading New York City's civic cleanup.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049908", "text": "She successfully fought for tough legislation to combat illegal drugs and opioid use in Florida and was appointed to the President's Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission where she worked alongside other national leaders in areas of drug prevention, interdiction, and treatment.", "issue": "Drug Abuse"}
{"id": "0000049909", "text": "Democrats simply cannot compete with our grassroots army of two million volunteers, and the millions of door knocks and phone calls we make each week will prove to be a critical advantage for President Trump and Republicans come Election Day.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000049910", "text": "So I defend the person who defends democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049911", "text": "So we will never again be at the mercy of China and other foreign countries in order to protect our own people.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000049912", "text": "The Obama administration still had no idea how deadly the disease was, though the World Health Organization called the outbreak a threat to all humanity, and health experts predicted hospitals would be overloaded.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000049913", "text": "Obama promised to control the impact of the virus-not the virus itself.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000049914", "text": "Team Obama promised 100 million doses of vaccine by mid-October.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000049915", "text": "He played down the persistence of overt racism and suggested that the government should have a limited role in integration.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000049916", "text": "He played down the persistence of overt racism and suggested that the government should have a limited role in integration.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000049917", "text": "He played down the persistence of overt racism and suggested that the government should have a limited role in integration.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000049918", "text": "Finally we call on Iran to ratify without delay the Additional Protocol and, pending its ratification, to act in accordance with its provisions.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049919", "text": "Digital technology can make it easier for companies, particularly small- and medium-sized enterprises, to engage in trade.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049920", "text": "We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to support Ukraine for as long as it takes.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049921", "text": "Key Outcomes of the Fourth TTC Ministerial meeting A. Robust Transatlantic Cooperation on Emerging Technologies for Joint U.S.-EU Leadership Artificial Intelligence AI is a transformative technology with great promise for our people, offering opportunities to increase prosperity and equity.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049922", "text": "These new partnerships will harness our leadership in science, innovation, technology, and health at a time of extraordinary geopolitical change.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049923", "text": "Above all, we renew our investment in the very idea of steadfast alliances - knowing that our partnership will make security and prosperity possible for both our peoples for decades to come.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049924", "text": "We acknowledge the great potential for expanding bilateral trade and investment and the significant benefits this would bring to both of our economies.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000049925", "text": "The United States and Russia are committed to achieving WTO accession for Russia as soon as possible and on commercially meaningful terms.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049926", "text": "In recognition of Russia's growing role as a major economy, the United States is also committed to helping Russia accede to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other global economic institutions.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000049927", "text": "Cooperation on energy remains an area of significant potential for both our nations.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049928", "text": "Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least equally important and equally deserving the consideration of Congress.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000049929", "text": "Contiguous to Maryland and Virginia, the District during the war became a place of refuge for those who escaped from servitude, and it is yet the abiding place of a considerable proportion of those who sought within its limits a shelter from bondage.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049930", "text": "The passions aroused by a great civil war are still dominant.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049931", "text": "The events of the last war furnished a practical confirmation of the wisdom of the Constitution as it has hitherto been maintained in many of its parts, including that which is now the subject of consideration.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049932", "text": "I sincerely trust and believe that no such civil war is likely to occur again.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049933", "text": "A trial of nearly eighty years, through the vicissitudes of foreign conflicts and of civil war, is confidently regarded as having extinguished all such doubts and apprehensions for the future.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049934", "text": "Everything is a crime which he chooses to call so, and all persons are condemned whom he pronounces to be guilty.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049935", "text": "It is not even recited that any sort of war or insurrection is threatened.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049936", "text": "It was to punish the gross crime of defying the Constitution and to vindicate its supreme authority that we carried on a bloody war of four years' duration.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049937", "text": "The war had accomplished its objects.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049938", "text": "In other words, an officer or soldier of the Army is thus transformed into a civil officer.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049939", "text": "The officer of the Army must, if detailed, go upon the supreme bench of the State with the same prompt obedience as if he were detailed to go upon a court-martial.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049940", "text": "He is still an officer or soldier of the Army; he is still subject to the rules and regulations which govern it, and must yield due deference, respect, and obedience toward his superiors.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000049941", "text": "In time of war it was eminently proper that we should provide for those who were passing suddenly from a condition of bondage to a state of freedom.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049942", "text": "Under the political education of the American people the idea is inherent and ineradicable that the consent of the majority of the whole people is necessary to secure a willing acquiescence in legislation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000049943", "text": "This investment will not only help us reduce our dependence on foreign oil, making the United States more secure.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049944", "text": "When I am President, any governor who's willing to promote clean energy will have a partner in the White House.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049945", "text": "Any company that's willing to invest in clean energy will have an ally in Washington.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049946", "text": "Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union that represents 150, 000 federal workers, said Walker is 'declaring a war on middle-class workers.'", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049947", "text": "MR We have made the message clear to Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049948", "text": "The interests of Syria and the interests of Iran have not always proved to be the interest of peace or stability or freedom or democracy.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049949", "text": "When you think of the government of Iran and the Shiite government of Iran, and just automatically think same thing for Iraq.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000049950", "text": "The war against terrorism is continuing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000049951", "text": "President Biden outlines plan to battle inflation in State of the Union address", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049952", "text": "President Joe Biden proclaimed that fighting inflation is his top priority in Tuesday night's State of the Union address.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049953", "text": "One way to fight inflation is to drive down wages and make Americans poor.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000049954", "text": "Biden in State of the Union urges 'unmistakable' support for democracy in Ukraine", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049955", "text": "HUD secretary visits Toledo to discuss making public housing more accessible", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049956", "text": "Our investment in the John Nolen Drive Bridge - and in bridges across the country - is further proof that President Biden's investments in our infrastructure are making us stronger and leaving no one behind.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049957", "text": "Affordable housing on the table as HUD secretary Fudge visits Prince George's Co.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000049958", "text": "The decision to cap the price of insulin puts Eli Lilly in compliance of a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act, but does so for all, not just seniors with Medicare, as the legislation states.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049959", "text": "Deputy Assistant for Health and Veteran Affairs, Christen Linke Young, explains how the decision to cap the price of insulin will have a large impact on Americans.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049960", "text": "We felt it was important work before the pandemic, but my goodness, the pandemic has really accentuated that that work needs to be front and center at all times.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049961", "text": "In Montgomery County, when the pandemic began, elected officials ensured that all school age children would have access to food regardless of their family's income.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049962", "text": "We're Republicans who support infrastructure, budget bills.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049963", "text": "They're an important piece of infrastructure in communities, official said.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049964", "text": "The funding, made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, is the single largest dedicated bridge investment since the construction of the interstate highway system...", "issue": "Investment"}
{"id": "0000049965", "text": "This bipartisan investment will address the dangers of abandoned mines while simultaneously supporting new, good-paying jobs, economic recovery, and community revitalization.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049966", "text": "This bipartisan investment will address the dangers of abandoned mines while simultaneously supporting new, good-paying jobs, economic recovery, and community revitalization.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049967", "text": "Reclamation of shuttered coal mine sites is considered crucial to preventing environmental pollution and returning land to its natural setting.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000049968", "text": "As the Sacramento Bee reports, a default could lead to massive unemployment and critical cuts to social security and retirement benefits.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000049969", "text": "Unemployment would mean families would be making less money and contributing less in tax revenue to the state and local governments - less for schools, police and firefighters, road repairs and more...", "issue": "Unemployment"}
{"id": "0000049970", "text": "The formal launch of WHIAANHPI and the relaunch of the Federal Interagency Working Group and Regional Network are important and essential steps in combating racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against AANHPIs.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000049971", "text": "At a time when many Southeast Asian Americans are grappling with the physical, mental, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing systemic injustices, this is an important opportunity for our voices to be included in the decisions that impact our lives.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049972", "text": "In so doing, she will support the fundamental commitment of science - that a fact beats a theory every time.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000049973", "text": "The Nomination of Lisa Cook is particularly significant as the first Black woman to be appointed to the Federal Reserve Board in its 108-year history.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000049974", "text": "Incredibly, Cook will be the first Black woman to serve on the Board, and Jefferson will be the fifth Black governor - representation that is long overdue.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000049975", "text": "As the U.S. rebounds from the pandemic, we urge the Senate to swiftly confirm President Biden's nominees to the Federal Reserve to ensure successful management of the economy during this critical period.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049976", "text": "Biden Administration Lays Out Broad Strategy for Targeting Domestic Terrorism Senior administration officials said their strategy is directed at violent extremists from the left and right alike.", "issue": "Terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049977", "text": "Domestic terrorism is the greatest threat facing the Jewish community & our country.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049978", "text": "After giving the past 12 years to the fight against this form of terrorism, it is really remarkable to see this level of commitment in the new National Strategy today.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049979", "text": "Domestic terrorism has grown significantly in recent years and poses a serious threat to our national security.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000049980", "text": "A greater investment in community interventions will help take a bite out of violent crime, said Paul DelPonte, head of the National Crime Prevention Council.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000049981", "text": "Municipalities across the country are facing a troubling rise in violent crime and we urgently need holistic and integrated solutions to help make our communities safer.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000049982", "text": "As has said many times, we are experiencing an epidemic of gun violence in this country.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000049983", "text": "This USDA program represents the single largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in 1936.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049984", "text": "This opportunity would allow us to pursue new technology on our system today in a way that makes the most sense for us and the communities we serve.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000049985", "text": "Rural cooperatives deliver energy to 92% of counties experiencing persistent poverty across the country.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000049986", "text": "With transportation now the leading source of climate pollution, electrifying cars and trucks is a critical step to addressing that problem.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000049987", "text": "This decision will lower the price of a pair of hearing aids by nearly $3, 000.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000049988", "text": "This belief is the basis for a successful democracy, and the much-needed focus of the administration's summit.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000049989", "text": "The balance between responses that recognize the distinctive history, characteristics, and impacts of antisemitism and those that recognize the intersectional impacts of broader issues of discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes is particularly encouraging.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000049990", "text": "The President has directly confronted the coronavirus pandemic that has taken lives of almost nine hundred and fifty thousand of our fellow citizens.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049991", "text": "Finally, President Biden addressed the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, which is an affront to all democratic forms of government and all people of goodwill.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000049992", "text": "Democracy and freedom are worth fighting for-as the Ukrainian people are showing us every day.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000049993", "text": "Our members are on the frontlines of the pandemic, and we were honored to have progressive care unit nurse Refynd Duro of Ohio in the audience with the first lady tonight.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049994", "text": "In his first State of the Union address, President Biden made it clear that creating jobs through investment in our country's infrastructure and empowering workers has been the foundation of his agenda to strengthen our country.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000049995", "text": "While the country is thankfully emerging from the latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, it now faces another global crisis with Russia's invasion into Ukraine.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049996", "text": "As the COVID-19 pandemic made abundantly clear, care workers are essential to our economy and to the health and wellbeing of all our communities.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000049997", "text": "And everyone providing vital care deserves no less than a solid living wage.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000049998", "text": "We were promised generational change in the infrastructure that supports us all, and we're ready to 'finish the job.'", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000049999", "text": "The people of Ukraine are inspiring the world with their bravery & resilience in their fight for the future of democracy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050000", "text": "Putin has unintentionally revitalized the fight for democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050001", "text": "Many of us are still struggling to recover from the pandemic, and need access to capital to thrive in the future.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050002", "text": "The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to bring critical medical supply chains home.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050003", "text": "Over the last year in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, our nation has repeatedly experienced the pitfalls of offshoring critical supply chains.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050004", "text": "The shortage impacts all industries across our economy, and any attempt to alter the supply chain by picking winners and losers will have serious short-term and long-term consequences.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000050005", "text": "Rare earths and critical minerals, including lithium, are essential to modern technology and require a robust, resilient strategy for U.S. advanced manufacturing and national security.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050006", "text": "American businesses have faced unprecedented hardship during the #COVID19 pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050007", "text": "But arcane Senate rules must not stand in the way of our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050008", "text": "The need to protect our democracy could not be more urgent, as America faces the most dangerous assault on the vote since Jim Crow.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050009", "text": "In the fight to preserve our democracy, it is imperative that we protect the right to vote.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050010", "text": "Nothing is more important than our democracy, and every option must be on the table to protect it and ensure our elections remain free and fair.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050011", "text": "Today, in a place with profound importance to our democracy, advocated for protecting the right to vote in a free, fair, and secure election.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050012", "text": "Today's statements by President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris marked the critical importance of defending our democracy in these challenging times.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050013", "text": "And if any Senator stands opposed to protecting this most fundamental of American rights, let that betrayal of democracy be their legacy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050014", "text": "Washington state has led the nation in eliminating barriers to voting-it is our most fundamental right in a democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050015", "text": "Democracy is on line and we must be steadfast in defending the right to vote.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000050016", "text": "Expanding voting rights and protecting our democracy has to be our top priority in this moment.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050017", "text": "Voting rights are too important to our democracy to allow the filibuster to remain in place.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050018", "text": "Co-Chair Gov. on 'Either we believe in a participatory democracy or we don't.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050019", "text": "President Biden's full throated support of changing the U.S. Senate rules in order to protect our democracy is an important step.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050020", "text": "The more people participate, the stronger our democracy is and the more it works for the people on critical issues like climate change and environmental justice.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050021", "text": "The guiding principle of our democracy is that in America, the voters decide the outcome of our elections.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050022", "text": "We must make sure that the attacks on our democracy that accelerated after the Shelby v. Holder decision, culminating in the January 6th insurrection and anti-voting laws passed in nineteen states last year are not the beginning of the end.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050023", "text": "We're sitting at a critical juncture for our democracy, one that calls on Congress to rise to the moment.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050024", "text": "Passing legislation such as the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act will strengthen the fundamental elements of our democracy and failing to do so would be a threat to our nation's economy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050025", "text": "Business Roundtable welcomes his commitment to ending the COVID-19 pandemic through vaccine production, distribution and access.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050026", "text": "We shouldn't have to protect the fundamentals of our democracy - we should make it easier for more people to vote.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050027", "text": "POTUS is fighting for our democracy at every turn.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050028", "text": "Keep up great work, Mr President Fantastic Biden speech just now about 'the most serious threat to democracy since the civil war' - 'democracy is not a state, it is an act.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050029", "text": "Protect access to medication abortion -Ensure emergency medical care -Protect access to birth control I support efforts to protect reproductive rights.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050030", "text": "In the face of the biggest dismantling of women's rights in half a century, I commend and thank President Biden for his commitment to protecting reproductive freedom and access to abortion, said Rep. Frankel.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050031", "text": "In the wake of this rogue Supreme Court waging war on the right to an abortion, I'm proud to see tap into the fight to protect abortion care.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050032", "text": "I appreciate taking steps to protect access to abortion & reproductive health care in the wake of SCOTUS's egregious ruling overturning Roe.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050033", "text": "Earlier this week, declared that we support the right to abortion in VA.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050034", "text": "Banning abortion puts lives at risk.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050035", "text": "President Biden's executive order to safeguard access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion care, is an important first step in restoring the rights taken from millions of Americans by the Supreme Court.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050036", "text": "Roughly half of the states in the country are at risk of banning abortion, and thus far, 11 states have bans in place and many more are rushing to do the same.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050037", "text": "As some states work to criminalize abortion, it is essential that our federal government protect those rights, which is consistent with what the Christian faith, the Bible and the teachings of many faith traditions support.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050038", "text": "President Biden's Executive Order helps secure access to reproductive healthcare and defends people's fundamental rights.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050039", "text": "Roughly half of the states in the country are at risk of banning abortion, and thus far, 14 states have bans in place and many more are rushing to do the same.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050040", "text": "SOTU POTUS 's forceful support of a free and democratic Ukraine against Russian aggression showed that principled American leadership on the global stage is back.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050041", "text": "We stand with the people of Ukraine as they defend their freedom and independence.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050042", "text": "We support any and all investment in our HBCUs, community colleges and institutions that prepare our workforce for the new economy of jobs.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050043", "text": "It should not be legal to deny housing, refuse business, or to fire someone for who they are or who they love.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000050044", "text": "Thank you for tackling the price of prescription drugs...the is working to make prescription drugs more affordable through the #PACTAct2022!", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000050045", "text": "SOTU is right, cutting the price of prescription drugs like insulin and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices needs to be a top priority in our country!", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000050046", "text": "NJ has some of the oldest infrastructure all critical for transformation #StateOfTheUnion #LeadershipMatters", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050047", "text": "The battle of democracy vs. authoritarianism is being waged in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050048", "text": "This administration has worked hard on the problems of the pandemic, infrastructure & protecting voting rights.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050049", "text": "Texas House Democrats know acutely how important clean energy is for the future of our state.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050050", "text": "While already a crisis before COVID, the pandemic has caused increased social isolation, anxiety, and learning loss for our kids.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050051", "text": "Our democracy is worth fighting for.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050052", "text": "While we act against aggression abroad, we are also fighting to Protect Our Democracy at home.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000050053", "text": "From lowering the cost of prescription drugs, to making childcare affordable for the middle class, to onshoring manufacturing back to the US, to standing up to Putin's attack on democracy, this is not a partisan agenda but an American agenda.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050054", "text": "In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050055", "text": "Additionally, with the resources in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, counties are building, maintaining and upgrading major infrastructure ? roads, bridges, airports, public transportation, water and sewage, and broadband.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050056", "text": "This partnership extends to our commitment to democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050057", "text": "Mayors across America condemn Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and stand with Ukraine's mayors as they lead their cities and resist this war of aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050058", "text": "As long as the coronavirus exists somewhere, it will continue to threaten the health & economic well-being of Americans here at home.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050059", "text": "We echo 's call for COVID vaccine manufacturers to remove liability requirements for the COVAX Humanitarian Buffer, so & other NGOs can distribute vaccines to those in crisis.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050060", "text": "To support environmental justice, good clean energy jobs, and a livable climate, the United States government must swiftly slash pollution from its own construction materials, vehicle fleets, electricity usage, and buildings, and spur cuts to industrial pollution throughout the supply chain.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000050061", "text": "As we accelerate the country's transition toward electric transportation powered by renewable energy, the federal government must lead the charge.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050062", "text": "From ensuring that government-purchase products are free of PFAS to efforts to transition the U.S. government to clean energy, today's Executive Order is critical to the long-term success of this country and to the health of generations to come.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050063", "text": "Denver's new building performance policy will make housing more affordable by lowering energy bills, and it will create a healthier city with better indoor air quality for our residents.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000050064", "text": "Buildings are not just our largest source of pollution - they represent one of our greatest opportunities to create good-paying jobs and turn the tide on the climate crisis.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000050065", "text": "Since the Farwell family landed in New England in 1620, we've served in every major war...", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050066", "text": "Salary increases for senior executive branch officials.", "issue": "Salary"}
{"id": "0000050067", "text": "MR Ari, yesterday on C-SPAN Congressman Filner and Congressman Wilson got into it on the war on Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050068", "text": "Senator Kerry's shifting positions and contradictions only weaken our ability to wage the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050069", "text": "And this is part of the winning the war on terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050070", "text": "For developing countries, particularly those that have embraced free market principles, foreign direct investment is vital to increase growth and reduce debt service burdens.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050071", "text": "Throughout our Nation's history, foreign direct investment has played an important role in increasing economic growth and raising living standards.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050072", "text": "Information on CALL RECIPIENTS Staff Sergeant Kevin R. Everett, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Kevin R. Everett, U.S. Army, deployed to Afghanistan as a member of the 101st Division Special Troop Battalion.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000050073", "text": "Along these lines, Prime Minister Takeshita and I agreed on the importance of supporting democracy and sustained economic growth and reform in the Philippines.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050074", "text": "The framework agreements we have negotiated with other countries are directed at trade and investment.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000050075", "text": "A recession in the industrialized world will not help OPEC members such as Venezuela, and far-sighted leaders such as President Perez have been among the first to realize this.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000050076", "text": "The United States has continued to ask South Korea to open its markets fully for more U.S. exports.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050077", "text": "Having represented my country in China, I have fond memories and close ties there.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050078", "text": "At the request of the Republic of Korea, our forces are in Korea to deter aggression from the North.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050079", "text": "I will tell you this, obviously the state right across the border is Coahuila.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000050080", "text": "President Trump also sought to pressure the government of Ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official US government acts of significant value to Ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050081", "text": "President Trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the United States government corruptly solicited the government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into, A, a political opponent, Former Vice President, Joseph R. Biden Jr.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050082", "text": "A discredited theory promoted by Russia alleging that Ukraine rather than Russia interfered in the 2016 United States presidential election.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050083", "text": "You can expect a tax on all kinds of members of the House that have nothing to do with the issues before you.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000050084", "text": "They will also make the argument, Ukraine thinks the call was perfect.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050085", "text": "Now the war was over and so he never left the United States.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050086", "text": "A moment when our democracy was gravely threatened and not from without but from within.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050087", "text": "The constitution already included treason as a crime and that was defined in the constitution itself.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050088", "text": "There were at the time of the constitution is adoption two great debates that went on, and it's very important to understand the distinction between these two great debates.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000050089", "text": "Clinton was accused of a crime, perjury, and so the issue in his case was not whether the constitution required a crime for impeachment.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050090", "text": "Instead, the issue is where the Clinton's alleged crime could be classified as a high crime in light of its personal nature.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050091", "text": "If a defendant were accused of dishonesty, committing the crime of dishonesty, it wouldn't matter that the indictment listed as, well, the means toward dishonesty, a variety of far more specific potential offenses.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050092", "text": "People think we have covered healthcare, we do not.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050093", "text": "I need to remind y'all, we've been at war for two decades.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050094", "text": "The United States is facing daily threats from China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, and a whole host of other bad actors.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050095", "text": "And while I'm not supposed to say it, I will, this woman is not my type!", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000050096", "text": "She's accusing me of rape, a woman that I have no idea who she is.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000050097", "text": "She's accusing me of rape, of raping her, the worst thing you can do, the worst charge.", "issue": "rape"}
{"id": "0000050098", "text": "There was some woman that wrote, and then she, a long time later, I think she wrote a wonderful story.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000050099", "text": "That the legacy of discrimination and current incidents of discrimination were less overt than in the past, that this things are real and must be addressed, not just with words, but with deeds.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000050100", "text": "We pledge today never to take our democracy for granted.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050101", "text": "It's a 40 year old woman who recovered from breast cancer but had a compromised immune system, and four children at home.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000050102", "text": "What the defense procurement act was about, the country needed materials to go to war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050103", "text": "Well then act like it's a war and it's not anti-business.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050104", "text": "So COVID yes, deal with it today, but this is a profound transformational moment in society, and there are a lot of lessons from COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050105", "text": "By the way, even if we had total access to China, I think they have distributed so much product that they don't have it.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050106", "text": "You go to war with what you have.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050107", "text": "Often the hospitals will also do their own vet as well to make sure.", "issue": "vet"}
{"id": "0000050108", "text": "It is a war in many ways, and government has to mobilize as if it is a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050109", "text": "Also, as this has gone on, we said we are fighting a war on two fronts.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050110", "text": "We're fighting the virus, and we're fighting fear, and they are two totally different situations that you have to deal with.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050111", "text": "We are battling a deadly virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050112", "text": "A very small percent, and they tend to be older people, more vulnerable people, people with an underlying illness, this respiratory illness compounds the problem they have.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000050113", "text": "Again, to keep it all in perspective, people don't know what to make of the coronavirus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050114", "text": "You don't win a war that way.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050115", "text": "The federal government just increased unemployment to 600.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050116", "text": "You're talking about state sales tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000050117", "text": "The federal government has to test the vaccine, FDA.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050118", "text": "Anything we can do to work with the federal government to get the vaccine done faster, we are all in.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050119", "text": "Or maybe they develop another drug that they figure out has an effect.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000050120", "text": "Everything goes back to China and China is now in a position where they're being asked globally for these reagent chemicals and that is a piece of the equation that I can't figure out.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050121", "text": "But the virus is nothing to be underestimated and the virus is very good at killing and the virus is very good at killing older people and people with compromised immune system.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050122", "text": "We do have people who represent the state in China for trade point of view.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050123", "text": "You have the federal government going to China to buy supplies.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050124", "text": "Michael Dowling ran healthcare for the state of New York, Social Services for the state of New York.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050125", "text": "And each one of those tests, they're all for COVID, but you have to go back to that manufacturer and get all the new supplies to run the tests.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050126", "text": "We paid a tremendous price to get where we are today and make the progress that we have made today.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000050127", "text": "So public housing does pose a special issue and it should be addressed.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000050128", "text": "February 2nd, the president ordered a travel ban from China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050129", "text": "There are people who literally struggling for food and for child care.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000050130", "text": "A few other states like Connecticut and Massachusetts have started doing COVID only patients to take the burden off of nursing homes.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050131", "text": "We were introduced to this virus in the state of Washington in a nursing home.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050132", "text": "This virus is an efficient, effective predator and the virus preys on the vulnerable and the vulnerable are primarily elderly people, people with a compromised immune system and a nursing home is ground zero for this virus, period.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050133", "text": "I think the attitude has to be a virus anywhere is a virus everywhere.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050134", "text": "We without the virus are supposed to bail out those people who have the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050135", "text": "We made tremendous progress on the homeless.", "issue": "homeless"}
{"id": "0000050136", "text": "We without the virus are supposed to bail out those people who have the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050137", "text": "We made tremendous progress on the homeless.", "issue": "homeless"}
{"id": "0000050138", "text": "A concern though from some small business owners is that their employees went on unemployment and now they may not be able to get those employees back.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050139", "text": "What we saw in the state of Washington, what we saw in California, they came from China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050140", "text": "I'm trying to contact people in China who can figure out how to buy masks from China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050141", "text": "There was a limited supply, it was primarily in China, and then you have 50 states and all of these private entities in the federal government trying to buy from China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050142", "text": "This is two major States in the middle of a pandemic, Robert Kraft is sending a plane.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050143", "text": "And just to punctuate one other thing the governor said about the flu, the one big difference between coronavirus and the flu is that the flu has a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050144", "text": "So the debate now is, well, it's the blue states that have the coronavirus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050145", "text": "First of all, no blue state was asking for a bailout before this coronavirus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050146", "text": "Because of the coronavirus, this nation has been impacted, and states have been impacted because the states make up the nation, and we need financial help because of the coronavirus situation.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050147", "text": "Because first of all, you want to make sure you have the virus on the retreat.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050148", "text": "And the federal government came in and they were at all our airports screening everybody from China, nobody screened people coming from Europe.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050149", "text": "They think the virus may have come last December or November.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050150", "text": "The virus doesn't understand state boundaries, doesn't understand that it needs a passport.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050151", "text": "I suppose they gave a war and nobody came.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050152", "text": "And this virus doesn't respect county borders, or state borders.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050153", "text": "This is supposed to be about the COVID virus and repairing damage from the COVID virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050154", "text": "I think he has COVID virus himself, the dog.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050155", "text": "But it's one region and this virus doesn't respect county borders or state borders.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050156", "text": "But they may have this more serious inflammatory illness that could be a heart disease issue.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000050157", "text": "So the same criteria that's been applied outside of prison walls, if you're symptomatic, if you're known to have come in contact with somebody who is COVID-positive, that same rule applies within prisons.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000050158", "text": "The federal government is working very hard to accelerate the vaccine as they should.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050159", "text": "In March, we think it's still in China, November, December.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050160", "text": "I worked in public housing all across this country when I was the housing and urban development secretary during the Clinton administration.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000050161", "text": "I support legalization of marijuana passage.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000050162", "text": "On this issue of crime and those experiencing mental health illness, we started asking for additional resources nearly two years ago.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000050163", "text": "The virus cannot be managed by state boundaries.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050164", "text": "We're watching China with a hospital capacity issue where they were building thousands of new hospital beds.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050165", "text": "And we were dealing with managing the pandemic, but we told the state legislature, we would get to their request.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050166", "text": "You can't use a subpoena or the threat of an investigation to leverage a person, that's a crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050167", "text": "First, we must manage the COVID virus until the vaccine is developed and we need the federal government to work with us in partnership in that effort.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050168", "text": "While I'm sure none of us wanted to be in the position of dealing with COVID the last six months have highlighted the importance and capacity of state governments.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050169", "text": "COVID will ricochet across this country, bouncing from one state to another.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050170", "text": "We all know the weapons needed for the war we must wage.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050171", "text": "This coming year states will not only be laboratories of democracy, we will also be the engines of economic renewal, and we will also be the innovators of a new public health system institutionalizing what we learned.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050172", "text": "Violent crime is on the rise in our city and we need a mayor that works with our police department to keep our streets and children safe.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050173", "text": "I think we should try and invigorate our democracy in other ways too.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050174", "text": "Then hopefully, we can come together on things like infrastructure that both parties have traditionally agreed on.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050175", "text": "We're spending so much money on our healthcare right now, $3.6 trillion a year, but it's not designed to make us stronger and healthier.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050176", "text": "That, both in a literal sense when it comes to infrastructure and in a broader sense is the foundation I believe upon which maybe we can build something even better.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050177", "text": "We're asking the public to be smart and to be responsible by following public health guidelines Dr. Christ put together and limit gatherings inside your home.", "issue": "public health"}
{"id": "0000050178", "text": "And in the military, we understand that hope is the most important portion of what makes us successful.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050179", "text": "COVID-19 has been the number one priority of the administration since we had our original press conference in this room.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000050180", "text": "This year as the world faces unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Mary's has really risen to the occasion, Tom.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050181", "text": "As we continue to battle this virus, we know that many people, family and businesses have been struggling.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050182", "text": "So today we are pleased to announce an investment of more than $1.625 million to expand access to nutritious food for Arizonans and here are the details.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050183", "text": "And another number that I think you can look at is COVID-like illness, and Arizona's still in a very good spot from that standpoint.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000050184", "text": "We know how quickly this disease spreads, this order will help to mitigate the spread... ...", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050185", "text": "So the entire world is facing a PPE shortage.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000050186", "text": "This pandemic is incredible in terms of the sacrifices that it's asking all of our citizens to continue to participate.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050187", "text": "And when it was ended on May 15th, six weeks of asking Arizona's for dramatic sacrifice, the virus in Arizona was slowed to a crawl.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050188", "text": "This has been pointed out by many leaders in K-12 education, how real this was, how it was amplified last year.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050189", "text": "We do tend to see increased illness when kids returned to school.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000050190", "text": "And this country has faced the ugliness of racism for over 400 years.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000050191", "text": "Most young people don't get significant disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050192", "text": "We're battling this virus with all the measures that we're putting in place, and we're battling the economic crisis that has been caused as a result of the Coronavirus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050193", "text": "So as the prime minister said, we've seen significant further growth in cases of coronavirus in Australia.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050194", "text": "Whenever the world makes you cynical, whenever you seek true humility and selflessness, look to a veteran.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000050195", "text": "Obama had also faced an outbreak in his first term.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000050196", "text": "Through civil war and bitter struggles, we improved this constitution to include the voices of those who'd once been left out, and gradually we made this country more just and more equal and more free.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050197", "text": "They believe that in a democracy, the right to vote is sacred and we should be making it easier for people to cast their ballots, not harder.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050198", "text": "Last month, we lost a giant of American democracy in John Lewis and some years ago I sat down with John and a few remaining leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050199", "text": "This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes for them to win.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050200", "text": "Passing the American Rescue Plan to make healthcare even more affordable and available to everyone.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050201", "text": "A lot of our struggle I think in the healthcare advocacy space is that healthcare is such a complex and personal and nuanced issue.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050202", "text": "Just last night, he complained up in eerie that the pandemic made him go back to work.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050203", "text": "He was upset that the pandemic's made him go back to work.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050204", "text": "Other countries are still struggling with the pandemic but they're not doing as bad as we are because they've got a government that's actually been paying attention.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050205", "text": "This I know to be true, Joe and Kamala will protect your healthcare and expand Medicare and make insurance more affordable for everybody.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050206", "text": "Just like when Russia puts bounties on the heads of our soldiers in Afghanistan, the commander-in-chief can't be missing in action.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050207", "text": "A nation that stands with democracy, not dictators, a nation that can mobilize and inspire others to overcome threats like climate change and terrorism and poverty and disease.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050208", "text": "They believe in a democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050209", "text": "If you believe in democracy, you want every vote counted.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050210", "text": "Joe will get this pandemic under control with a plan to make testing free and widely available.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050211", "text": "A nation that stands with democracy, not dictators, a nation that can inspire and mobilize others to overcome threats like climate change and terrorism and poverty and disease.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050212", "text": "They believe that in a democracy, the right to vote is sacred.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050213", "text": "And we don't threaten to throw our political opponents in jail just because we disagree with them.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000050214", "text": "Korea passed a Carbon Neutrality Act in September that requires the government to cut greenhouse gas emissions 35% or more by 2030.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050215", "text": "We need Russia leading on this issue just as we need Indonesia, South Africa, and Brazil leading on this issue.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050216", "text": "Juan then led an effort to amend the constitution of Panama.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000050217", "text": "Jon Ossoff runs a company that investigates crime and corruption around the world, which sounds like something we could use in Washington right now.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050218", "text": "But they knew that democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity, the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050219", "text": "To begin with, our democracy won't work without a sense that everyone has economic opportunity.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050220", "text": "It will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes a lot of good, middle-class jobs obsolete.", "issue": "automation"}
{"id": "0000050221", "text": "When they wage peaceful protest, they're not demanding special treatment, but the equal treatment that our Founders promised.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000050222", "text": "This trend represents a third threat to our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050223", "text": "Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050224", "text": "Just this week, he complained that the pandemic was making him go back to work.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050225", "text": "Nowhere near the number of people have died in South Korea because their government took care of business.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050226", "text": "We won't have a president who threatens people with jail for just criticizing him.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000050227", "text": "They believe that in a democracy, the right to vote is sacred.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050228", "text": "He said this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing .", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050229", "text": "More than anything, this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050230", "text": "The public servants and health officials battling this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050231", "text": "And, in the generations that have followed, through war and peace, through depression and prosperity, these truths have guided us as we have built the greatest democratic, economic, and military force the world has ever known.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000050232", "text": "As we recover from the pandemic, we are committed to building opportunities where there have historically been fewer.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050233", "text": "If you felt the sting of discrimination, then you don't just fight to end discrimination for yourself.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000050234", "text": "You got to fight for some young woman on the other side of the world who can't get an education.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000050235", "text": "This pandemic has made the last couple years incredibly hard for a lot of Virginians.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050236", "text": "That's not how democracy is supposed to work.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050237", "text": "Our democracy is what makes America great.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050238", "text": "Terry's opponent, he supported a policy that would cut education and public safety, and put more than 40, 000 teaching jobs at risk right here in Virginia.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050239", "text": "We're the only advanced democracy in the world that makes it harder for people to vote.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050240", "text": "But embedded in that was a massive investment in making sure that communities that had been left out of broadband and wifi were reached.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050241", "text": "I think we've got to invest in education and training.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050242", "text": "Education is key, particularly the future of our economy, but our training programs right now, we've got 47 of them housed in the federal government reporting to eight different agencies.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000050243", "text": "Energy is critical and the President pointed out correctly that production of oil and gas in the U.S. is up, but not due to his policies, in spite of his policies.", "issue": "Energy"}
{"id": "0000050244", "text": "Number one, if you've got health insurance, it doesn't mean a government takeover.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000050245", "text": "I don't want to cut our commitment to education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050246", "text": "This is not because I didn't have commitment to education, it's because I care about education for all of our kids.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050247", "text": "That's how we ended the war in Iraq, as I promised, and that's how we're going to wind down the war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050248", "text": "I will not cut our commitment to our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050249", "text": "And the fact that you're making investment in higher education is critical, not just to you, but to the entire nation.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050250", "text": "With respect to something like coal, we made the largest investment in clean coal technology to make sure that even as we're producing more coal, we're producing it cleaner and smarter.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050251", "text": "I will fight for all coal and natural gas and the proof, the proof of whether a strategy is working or not is what the price is that you're paying at the pump.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000050252", "text": "I will fight to create more energy in this country to get America energy secure.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050253", "text": "I said that I'd end the war in Iraq, and I did.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050254", "text": "I said I'd end the war in Iraq and I did.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050255", "text": "Syria is not just the tragedy of 30, 000 civilians being killed by a military, but also a strategically significant player for America.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000050256", "text": "We don't have to settle for unemployment at a chronically high level.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050257", "text": "Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that Al Qaeda is a threat because a few months ago, when you were asked, what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050258", "text": "And I said, in the same paragraph, I said, and Iran is the greatest national security threat we face.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050259", "text": "Russia does continue to battle us in the UN time and time again.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000050260", "text": "The war in Syria has now spilled over into Lebanon.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050261", "text": "The war goes on and he's still there.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050262", "text": "Secondly, Syria is an opportunity for us because Syria plays an important role in the Middle East, particularly right now, Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000050263", "text": "And so seeing Syria remove Assad is a very high priority for us.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000050264", "text": "And what I'm afraid of is that we've watched over the past year or so, first the President saying, Well, we'll let the UN deal with it.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000050265", "text": "Because I think that America has to stand with democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050266", "text": "When the president of Iraq, excuse me, of Iran, Ahmadinejad, says that our debt makes us not a great country, that's a frightening thing.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050267", "text": "We make decisions today in a military that will confront challenges we can't imagine.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050268", "text": "Because we ended the war in Iraq, we were able to refocus our attention on not only the terrorist threat, but also beginning a transition process in Afghanistan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050269", "text": "But to the issue of Iran, as long as I'm President of the United States, Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050270", "text": "And the reason we did this, is because a nuclear Iran is a threat to our national security and it's a threat to Israel's national security.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050271", "text": "Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, and for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050272", "text": "We're not going to allow Iran to perpetually engage in negotiations that lead nowhere.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050273", "text": "In part, because of our withdrawal from our commitment to our military in the way I think it ought to be.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050274", "text": "We ended the war in Iraq, refocused our attention on Afghanistan.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050275", "text": "But what I think the American people recognize is, after a decade of war, it's time to do some nation building here at home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050276", "text": "General Allen, our commander in Afghanistan, says that, Americans continue to die at the hands of groups who are supported by Pakistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000050277", "text": "And it's important for them, it's important for the nuclear weapons, it's important for the success of Afghanistan, because inside Pakistan, you have a large of Pashtuns that are Taliban.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000050278", "text": "Over the long-term, in order for us to compete with China, we've also got to make sure though that we're taking care of business here at home.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050279", "text": "China has an interest that's very much like ours in one respect, and that is, they want a stable world.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050280", "text": "And we're organizing trade relations with countries other than China, so that China starts feeling more pressure about meeting basic international standards.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050281", "text": "As commander in chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops, and go after those who would do us harm.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050282", "text": "He blamed the thugs in China for COVID-19 and ridiculed people named Jeremy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050283", "text": "I mean, and so I don't think the way he's lead through COVID has been reasonable, or responsible, or right.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050284", "text": "We are struggling with the worst pandemic to hit this country in 100 years, a pandemic that has already cost us over 200, 000 lives, and over 7, 000 right here in the state of Michigan.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050285", "text": "Madam President, as a former mayor I do understand how important physical infrastructure is.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050286", "text": "And incredibly during the pandemic that we are experiencing now, billionaires in America have seen their wealth increase by $1.8 trillion during this pandemic.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000050287", "text": "Mar 12, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders delivered a speech today on the coronavirus, or COVID-19.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050288", "text": "The crisis we face from the coronavirus is on a scale of a major war and we must act accordingly.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050289", "text": "If doctors and nurses and medical personnel do not have the equipment and the training and the capacity they need right now, people we know may unnecessarily face additional illness and even death.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000050290", "text": "The coronavirus is already causing a global economic meltdown, which is impacting people throughout the world and in our own country, and it is especially dangerous for low income and working class families.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050291", "text": "That is, number one, a major pandemic, which threatens the health and lives of millions of our people.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050292", "text": "We are confronting systemic racism and the enormous threat to our planet of climate change.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000050293", "text": "This president is not just a threat to our democracy, but by rejecting science, he has put our lives and health in jeopardy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050294", "text": "And we finally are going to end the destructive war on drugs.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050295", "text": "Turns out that you could legalize marijuana in every state in this country by executive order.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000050296", "text": "I think you just need to read the constitution itself.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000050297", "text": "As Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist 69, under the British system the king could declare a state of war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050298", "text": "But the king himself could get us involved in a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050299", "text": "I was reminded when Senator Murphy referred to the discussions about possibly going to war in Syria back in 2013, I think we were off on recess at the time.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000050300", "text": "We are going to end the war on drugs and legalize marijuana in every state in the country.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050301", "text": "Finally, from a national security perspective, it is incomprehensible that we are dependent on China and other countries for masks, for prescription drugs, for rubber gloves, and for key parts needed to make advanced medical equipment like ventilators.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050302", "text": "And as part of that housing crisis that we are experiencing some 18 million families are spending half of their incomes on housing or more!", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000050303", "text": "While at the same time, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000050304", "text": "While Joe and disagree on the best path to get to universal coverage, his proposal will greatly expand access to healthcare and make it more affordable for tens of millions of people across this country.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050305", "text": "He denounced Russia and Vladimir Putin and said he was briefed about it a month ago.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050306", "text": "During the last year, as everybody knows, over 500, 000 Americans have died of COVID, and millions more have been made ill.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050307", "text": "And very importantly, Madam President, we don't talk about this enough, one of the absolute disgraces of our economy right now is the level of childhood poverty in America, which is one of the highest for any major country on earth.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000050308", "text": "And let's be clear, this pandemic has made a bad situation worse for waiters and waitresses.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050309", "text": "We have been described as the Nazi army marching across France, et cetera, et cetera.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000050310", "text": "Joe and I have a very different opinion with regarding healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050311", "text": "We are struggling with a pandemic that has already cost us over 200, 000 lives.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050312", "text": "Today, that peaceful transition of power, the bedrock of American democracy is being threatened like never before.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050313", "text": "In the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump made clear that he wants to defund the postal service in order to limit the use of mail-in ballots.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050314", "text": "Lastly, and most importantly, the American people no matter what their political view, must make it clear that American democracy will not be destroyed.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050315", "text": "What's important is not giving tax breaks to billionaires, it's making sure that teachers receive adequate compensation.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000050316", "text": "That was a major step forward a hundred years ago, but right now with a world changing, with technology changing, our position must be that we will make public colleges and universities tuition free.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050317", "text": "Whether it relates to the corona virus or whether it relates to climate change, we believe in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000050318", "text": "So you stay in jail, you may have to negotiate a plea bargain, which gives you a criminal record.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000050319", "text": "We are going to end the very destructive war on drugs.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050320", "text": "Joe Biden voted for the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050321", "text": "I voted against the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050322", "text": "The problem though is that you may become a nidus, you may become the transporter of that virus into somebody else who could make them all sick.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050323", "text": "The important point there is that somebody is sick but doesn't have the virus, they don't have to be in the hospital.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050324", "text": "Texas General Land Office Commissioner, George P. Bush, called on Americans to stand against white terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000050325", "text": "Former deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, commended Bushes statement tweeting in part killing random civilians to spread a political message is terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000050326", "text": "In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000050327", "text": "None of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide and a half a world away.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050328", "text": "Look at the number of major American companies, on their own, not of my urging, over 600 of them, from Exxon to McDonald's have left Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050329", "text": "Senator Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate says the Saudis sided with Russia against the United States.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050330", "text": "They've been at war, declared war with one another for a long time.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050331", "text": "I don't think there will be a recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000050332", "text": "That's part of our democracy, and rebuilding trust with the American people will be central to our focus in the press office and in the White House every single day.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050333", "text": "The issue that he wakes up every day focused on is getting the pandemic under control.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050334", "text": "The issue he goes to bed every night focused on is getting the pandemic under control.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050335", "text": "Iran must resume compliance with significant nuclear constraints under the deal in order for that to proceed.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050336", "text": "The president took swift action to fight the pandemic, and helped millions of our small businesses survive with the American Rescue Plan, and its critical Covid relief for small businesses.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050337", "text": "And that investment is being led by all of you here.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050338", "text": "But nothing made me prouder than providing better healthcare and more protections to millions of people across this country.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050339", "text": "Healthcare represents about one fifth of our economy.", "issue": "Healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050340", "text": "But uncovering these evidences of their atrocities and war crimes against Ukraine and people, it's so clear to the whole world now.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050341", "text": "In addition to bolstering Ukraine's resistance on the battlefield, we're also demonstrating our support for the people of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050342", "text": "For more than a century, we've stood together to defend freedom and strengthen democracy, and to spur greater opportunity in all our countries.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050343", "text": "We're calling it the SSN-AUKUS, this new state-of-the-art, conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarine that will work, that will combine UK submarine technology and design with American technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050344", "text": "Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, China's growing assertiveness, the destabilizing behavior of Iran and North Korea, all threatened to create a world defined by danger, disorder, and division.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050345", "text": "And our highest priority is to continue providing military aid to Ukraine, because their security is our security.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050346", "text": "The leadership, the members of Congress, and all of you have made the largest investment in climate, environmental justice and conservation ever, anywhere in the entire world.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050347", "text": "Our inter-American democratic charter, which grew out in the third Summit of the Americas, captures our unique commitment to democracy as a region.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050348", "text": "Together, we have to invest in making sure our trade is sustainable and responsible in creating supply chains that are more resilient, more secure, and more sustainable.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000050349", "text": "Our intelligence and defense and counter terrorism professionals, in the building behind me and across the government, continue their vigilance against terrorist threats that has evolved and spread to new regions of the world.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000050350", "text": "There are two leading causes of inflation we're seeing today.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000050351", "text": "Putin's war in Ukraine, we saw in March that 60% of inflation that month was due to price increases at the pump for gasoline.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050352", "text": "Putin's war has raised food prices as well because Ukraine and Russia, two of the world's major bread baskets for wheat and corn are essentially completely stalled.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050353", "text": "Now, as I said, when I came to what Congress and the President can do to fight inflation, Americans have two potential to paths forward.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000050354", "text": "From tax credits for businesses to produce renewable energy, to tax credits for families to make their homes more energy efficient.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050355", "text": "President, a year ago, the administration was saying that inflation was transitory.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000050356", "text": "In this moment of great global challenges, from global inflation, to the climate crisis, to Russia's brutal war against Ukraine, we're bringing together the broadest possible coalition of partners to deliver results.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050357", "text": "We discussed Russia's aggression against Ukraine, reaffirmed our shared belief in the threat or the use of nuclear weapons is totally unacceptable.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050358", "text": "It's a decision Ukraine has to make.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050359", "text": "Fewer families are facing foreclosures today than before the pandemic, and we still have more work to do though, but we're clearly moving in the right direction.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050360", "text": "Starting last week, if big pharma raises prices faster than inflation, they're going to face big penalties.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000050361", "text": "Folks we're talking today about a major investment that we're making an affordable, high-speed internet all across the country.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050362", "text": "The pandemic was raging, the economy was reeling and the problems we were facing started a lot earlier than that.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050363", "text": "It's the biggest investment in high-speed internet ever, because for today's economy to work for everyone, internet access is just as important as electricity was or water or other basic services.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050364", "text": "We are a democracy, you cannot govern without consensus.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050365", "text": "Where Americans are paid a fair wage, make the wealthy begin to pay those share of taxes, I'm ready.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000050366", "text": "The major general of the Union army arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and free the last enslaved Americans in Texas from bondage.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000050367", "text": "On Monday, President-elect Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will receive the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in Delaware and they'll also think healthcare workers at the facility.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050368", "text": "Well, certainly getting the pandemic under control is front and first and foremost, the top priority for the incoming administration.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050369", "text": "As a matter of fact, the fact that we were able to cut government spending by $1.7 trillion, that didn't cause a recession; that caused growth.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000050370", "text": "The Chinese military is more active at this time in the Taiwan State with expectations this might increase leading up to Taiwan's presidential election next January.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050371", "text": "And on China, you will not lift sanctions on China's defense minister.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050372", "text": "We don't know that for certain, war is uncertain, war is uncertain to state the obvious.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050373", "text": "This past year with Russia's unjustified invasion of Ukraine, with the Iranian nuclear threat becoming more dangerous, and with the threats of terrorism worldwide, we were all reminded of something, in order to protect freedom, sometimes force must be used.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000050374", "text": "Putin's war must be a strategic failure and the free world must sustain a resolve to help Ukraine defend its democracy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050375", "text": "The United States will continue to support Ukraine and the Ukrainian people who have been devastated and displaced by the Russian violence.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050376", "text": "Today, you and I also discussed the America's commitment to ensuring Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050377", "text": "The alliance formed in war and has flourished in peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050378", "text": "And the Republic of Korea's strong support for Ukraine is important because Russian's flagrant violation of international law matters to nations everywhere in the world, not just in Europe.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050379", "text": "There have been concerns since last year that North Korea will soon be conducting its seventh nuclear test amid growing domestic support in your country for your own nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050380", "text": "And then lastly, I think we underestimate the example that South Korea sets.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050381", "text": "When we choose democracy over autocracy, a beloved community over chaos, when we choose believers in the dreams, to be doers, to be unafraid, always keeping the faith.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050382", "text": "We've united NATO once more in a way that it's never been united before.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000050383", "text": "But, look, if I need any reminder about how important infrastructure was in the country, I got a reminder just a few days ago right here in Philly.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050384", "text": "Supply chains and key products moved overseas like China and much of Asia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050385", "text": "And I must admit I concentrated on, but we've seen with the help of Jesse Jackson's legacy and a lot of other people here, we've seen record low unemployment for African Americans.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050386", "text": "Today, inflation is less than half of what it was a year ago, and that inflation caused by Russia and by the war in Ukraine and by what's going on.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000050387", "text": "We're accelerating our country's transition to clean energy, and we're standing up for our shared democratic values and workers' rights as the rule of law.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050388", "text": "Our economy would fall into a significant recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000050389", "text": "When asked about the challenges facing the US economy, the president insisted a recession is not inevitable.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000050390", "text": "The reason this is so significant is before the United States has warned China against using force in Taiwan, but they've been very vague on purpose, purposefully vague, on what they would do if China did, if they did use force in Taiwan.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050391", "text": "But again, post Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I think it is important for us to send a very, very strong signal to China.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050392", "text": "Yes, we're committed to following the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000050393", "text": "And we're also making major investments in clean energy in disadvantaged communities to lower energy costs and create good paying jobs.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050394", "text": "They were sentenced to one year in prison unless they agreed to leave Virginia and not return.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000050395", "text": "As you all heard from President Biden last week, the President's top priority is fighting inflation and lowering costs for American families.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000050396", "text": "By increasing the supply of affordable housing, will not only make home ownership and affordable rentership available for millions of more families, but will help to reduce price pressures in housing and rental as well.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000050397", "text": "You can't be a democracy when you support violence when you don't like the outcome of election.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050398", "text": "I've been fighting pharma for my entire career.", "issue": "pharma"}
{"id": "0000050399", "text": "And finally, we are making significant changes in healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050400", "text": "We need this bill to support Ukraine in its fight for freedom.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050401", "text": "We're helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050402", "text": "This so-called supplemental funding addresses the needs of the Ukrainian military during the critical weeks and months ahead.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050403", "text": "Putin has asserted sanctions are blocking food from Ukraine and Russia getting on the market; the sanctions we've imposed on Russia.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000050404", "text": "Additionally, yesterday, Russia threatened two of our allies with a cutoff of energy supplies.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050405", "text": "Russia has long claimed to be the reliable source of energy for the world.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050406", "text": "We're working with other nations like Korea, Japan, and others to support our effort to help European allies threatened by Russia with gas blackmail and their energy needs in other ways.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050407", "text": "In the meantime, on the southern border, we're trying to work through and make sure that it is an orderly process they're able to get in.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000050408", "text": "They say that war means war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050409", "text": "This Chinese surveillance balloon that went across the country, you ordered our military, fighter jets, to shoot it down off the coast of South Carolina.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050410", "text": "China knows exactly that what the deal is with us.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050411", "text": "So China today is saying they feel smeared, that you smeared them and their leader in your remarks last night.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050412", "text": "This law is the most significant investment in American roads and bridges since the Interstate Highway System, and it's the single most significant investment in rail in America since Amtrak was created 50 years ago.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050413", "text": "China used to rank number eight.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050414", "text": "This criminal complaint would've never have been filed without the leadership energy and wherewithal of the attorney general.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050415", "text": "Whose recovery from war was made possible only after his hometown pooled money to pay for surgery.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050416", "text": "But as old types of employment fall away, communities are opening up with dizzying speed fast new sectors in which this country already leads or can lead the world.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000050417", "text": "And yes, we face a once in a century pandemic, but now is the time to fix a problem that has plagued our country for decades.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050418", "text": "I don't want people to feel that this is as it were the moment to get de-mob happy, this is the end of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050419", "text": "The coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades, and this country is not alone.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050420", "text": "But obviously, a small minority, but a significant one, get significant disease requiring hospital care.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050421", "text": "Of course, if people don't induce very long lived immunity, that makes the idea of a vaccine less certain.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050422", "text": "We're lifting the living wage by a huge amount as you know, and we're making sure that statute pay and benefits are payable as soon as, as soon as possible.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000050423", "text": "If we act decisively, if we move sharply, if we take the right, tough decisions now, we can get the virus back under control.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050424", "text": "At the start of the pandemic, there were concerns that visitors just what gathering and crowds at beauty spots like.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050425", "text": "Those no longer apply with the virus, therefore it isn't to change course what they're doing to support people, as well.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050426", "text": "We can support sport at all levels throughout the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050427", "text": "But the best thing we can do is fight the virus and keep the economy moving.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050428", "text": "And keeping kids in education is absolutely vital for this country.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050429", "text": "The government has made very clear that ministers prioritize education, for example, as one of the things that would go early, but that's a ministerial decision very much but in the things we lifted stage by stage.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050430", "text": "That is possible because winter will benefit the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050431", "text": "The factor at the moment is making sure that we can get enough vaccine where we want it fast enough.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050432", "text": "On vaccine supply, as you know, on the 8th of December we were able to provide the first COVID vaccination approved by an independent regulator here in this country to Margaret Keenan in Coventry.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000050433", "text": "And even if these vaccines cannot make us invulnerable and no vaccine has ever given 100% protection to everybody.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050434", "text": "I think that the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is obviously very important for our country and for the world.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050435", "text": "But face coverings do make it harder for the virus to spread, so please wear one to protect others.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050436", "text": "Since the pandemic began, we've asked you to reduce your social contact and limit your interactions with friends and family.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050437", "text": "The measures I've set out today will help us control the virus but won't on their own be enough to allow a more significant return to normality.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050438", "text": "And so please, if the NHS contacts you, then get your vaccine and join the 350, 000 people across the UK who have already had their first dose.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050439", "text": "This virus has taken off, it's moving fast, and it's leading inevitably to a sharp increase in hospital admissions.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050440", "text": "There's no evidence it causes a more severe disease, causes more hospitalization, causes more trouble than the other virus.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050441", "text": "We have a vaccine already being rolled out, as the prime minister said, and therefore there is a prospect relatively in the sort of medium term future where things could be quite a lot better.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050442", "text": "We think it probably is based mainly, we think there's a large outbreak in the UK.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000050443", "text": "It's going to be an important part of surveillance going forward.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000050444", "text": "As to the details of the changes implied by the South African variant, its resistance to the vaccine or otherwise, I'm going to ask Patrick to comment.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050445", "text": "I think the amount we invested in the NHS, even before the pandemic began, was more than any time in modern memory, 34 billion pound package of investment, and that will continue under this government.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050446", "text": "They're sufficient to continue driving the virus downwards, but it's important to recognize they're less intrusive than the current national measures.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050447", "text": "Alas, it does mean bearing down on the virus across lots of other bits of society, but schools really are a priority.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050448", "text": "So I think headline results, this vaccine works and that's very exciting, and it's going to be put forward for approval.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050449", "text": "Vaccination greatly reduces transmission and two doses provide a very high degree of protection against serious illness and death.", "issue": "Vaccination"}
{"id": "0000050450", "text": "It's unmistakably clear the vaccines are working and the sheer scale of the vaccine rollout has made our position incomparably better than in previous waves.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050451", "text": "That's why the second part of the vaccination, which is stopping or reducing the chance of spreading, is an important part of this.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000050452", "text": "But, in this game, fighting this virus, you've got to learn to be cautious.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050453", "text": "Because of that act of generosity by AstraZeneca, who, just to reiterate, are making zero profit on the production of that vaccine, millions more vaccines have been rolled out to the poorest countries in the world.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050454", "text": "The former prime minister Gordon Brown has described the billion doses of vaccine as a moral failure.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050455", "text": "On the general criticism of the summit that you relay from sources unknown, I mean, $2.5 billion pledged for girls' education already.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050456", "text": "You said last year that pangolin scales being used in demented Chinese medicine, may be the cause of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050457", "text": "For the first time since this wretched virus took hold, we can see a route out of the pandemic.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050458", "text": "From what you've just said, prime minister, it sounds like your number one priority for Afghanistan is making sure it doesn't become a breeding ground for terrorism.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000050459", "text": "And of course, the vast bulk of the embassy staff and the officials there are already now outside Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000050460", "text": "One of the biggest economic challenges facing the country now is going to be jobs, unemployment, and of course, furlough is coming to an end at the end of October.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050461", "text": "The service charity sector is suffering immensely due to the pandemic, unable to raise critical funds to look after our brave veterans.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050462", "text": "You said we're not at war and absolutely that's correct.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050463", "text": "I simply ask that you recognize the importance of investment in our land warfare in Challenger, Warrior, Ajax, Boxer, for example, and also increasing the surface fleet too.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050464", "text": "Let's stop trying to fight this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050465", "text": "We're making progress in fighting this disease, and we will continue to make progress.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050466", "text": "Science will support us from many different directions.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000050467", "text": "And I'm afraid, at this stage, it's simply a consequence of living with COVID and when cases are high in the way we are.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050468", "text": "So this again confirms the crucial importance of vaccination in protecting against the effects of the infection, as well as reducing amongst the population, the chance of becoming infected.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000050469", "text": "It is critical people get their second vaccine, but it is not a complete wall.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050470", "text": "On the first point about the policing, the police has done an absolutely outstanding job throughout this pandemic, and I think they've handed out about 70, 000 fines, at least, for various breaches of one kind or another.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050471", "text": "Though, as I've explained to people, there is the issue that our trade in medicines and food does depend very much on those short straight.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000050472", "text": "Vaccination is one of those issues, and so it is important that people view it both for themselves, for their families, but also take their professional responsibility seriously.", "issue": "Vaccination"}
{"id": "0000050473", "text": "And as the extra vaccine comes available, we'll be able to turn on more of those GP led clinics.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050474", "text": "Number one, we have one authorized vaccine but we need more.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050475", "text": "And Prime Minister, this vaccine has been approved in the UK faster than in EU countries.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050476", "text": "And as JVT said, we don't at this point, know whether this vaccine will have that effect, but that's obviously one of the great benefits that you get from the winter flu vab jab.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050477", "text": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, in Cleveland and across the country, the pandemic has left many people without the certainty of work, but in particular, those disabled and differently abled people who already feel disadvantaged in the jobs market.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050478", "text": "Speaker, we saw what happened during the pandemic and particularly he talks about the September lockdown and my approach to it, and the very, very difficult decision that the country faced.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050479", "text": "Now during the pandemic, community spirit's been really important to all of us keeping going.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050480", "text": "In the autumn when the Scots government has dealt with the health effects of the pandemic, the economic part will require independence as Norway and Ireland prove.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050481", "text": "I know we have the summit in China, but for the protection of habitats and ecosystems around the world is so much an important part of dealing with climate change.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050482", "text": "And yet we are continuing to support international vaccination, a 1.6 billion pounds this country has contributed to Gavi.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000050483", "text": "As eloquently highlighted by my Right Honorable friend the leader of the opposition, recent reports have revealed that during the pandemic, the loss of learning has being absolutely catastrophic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050484", "text": "It doesn't mean that COVID is over.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050485", "text": "Because this government is not just committed to defeating coronavirus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050486", "text": "We believe in that investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050487", "text": "But on the other hand, I do want to see our critical national infrastructure properly protected from hostile state vandals.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050488", "text": "And new advances are making renewable energy ever cheaper, aiding our common struggle against climate change.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050489", "text": "Frontline care workers battled against a new disease, selflessly risking their lives, sacrificing their lives.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050490", "text": "Science, innovation, capitalism is vital now for the challenge that we face.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000050491", "text": "Every Labour government has left office with unemployment higher than when it came in, every single one, ever since the party was invented.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050492", "text": "And as the prime minister said, our response from the outset to the virus has been guided by scientific evidence.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050493", "text": "So we definitely would like that, not to fight the disease, but to support the NHS.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050494", "text": "But that's the sort of technology that's quite close, and it's being evaluated this week, but there.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050495", "text": "Clearly the demand is going to go up from the coronavirus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050496", "text": "This week, the government has taken unprecedented steps to fight the coronavirus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050497", "text": "And what that showed is that at 21 days, the vaccine led to a 72% reduction in the number of people who developed an infection, even a mild infection at 21 days after just one dose of the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050498", "text": "So very important people get their vaccination.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000050499", "text": "As people are invited for vaccination, please do go.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000050500", "text": "We have an incomplete protection from the vaccine at the moment and that would lead inevitably to deaths.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050501", "text": "Actually in most and social care settings that I've seen, and the data would back this up, people are really keen to get the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050502", "text": "The U.K. is leading international efforts to find a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050503", "text": "But we've only just passed the peak of the virus and it's vital R stays below one.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050504", "text": "In fact, one of our senior members of our team has asked for his resignation, because it's a big error.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000050505", "text": "Nearly four years later, she's the woman known as executive assistant #1 in the New York Attorney General's report into allegations of sexual harassment by the governor.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000050506", "text": "A lone gunman, armed with weapons of war and hate filled soul shot and killed 10 innocence people in cold blood at a grocery store on Saturday afternoon.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050507", "text": "We are making the investment that is long overdue in our infrastructure in order to maintain safety, just as we are working to maintain safety in the aviation system.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050508", "text": "And the extent that someone does resign, we accept that resignation if we feel it appropriate.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000050509", "text": "I'm very grateful of legislative support for this effort, eliminated that $800 minimum franchise tax for all new startups here in the state of California.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000050510", "text": "So that franchise tax no longer applies for businesses who want to start here in the state of California.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000050511", "text": "One of the most important things we could do clarity in terms of common ground with the legislature is accelerating state-funded infrastructure investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050512", "text": "As the Governor says, we need federal support to support building that infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050513", "text": "Our default remains in person education for all of the reasons that we've stated and all the reasons I know that the leadership of that school believes in.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050514", "text": "From indoors to outdoors as a significant contributor to mitigating the spread of this virus, the importance of face coverings, the importance of masks, physical distancing, avoiding out of your household cohort, the kind of mixing, all of those things.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050515", "text": "There is a concern around access to food for those that cannot prepare their own food.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000050516", "text": "Mar 23, 2020 California Governor Gavin Newsom gave an update on COVID-19 for the state March 23.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000050517", "text": "Remember what they did in China that make what we're doing pale in comparison.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050518", "text": "We have programs and procedures around infectious disease that have more broadly defined around isolation and testing protocols and the like.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050519", "text": "We've been working collaboratively with the superintendent of public education, Tony Thurman and Linda Darlene Hammond.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050520", "text": "Just to reiterate as well from an evidence perspective, our best defense against this virus is the types of interventions that we currently are putting in place, and we must continue to reinforce.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050521", "text": "We certainly are being benefited modestly by the federal stimulus in terms of the state block grants.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000050522", "text": "People who would not have typically been covered under unemployment, for example, wanting an extra 13 weeks of benefits or the self-employed.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050523", "text": "One thing I just think is incredibly important to remind all of you is that this virus is not going away anytime soon.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050524", "text": "The impact of the spread of the virus outside we believe is more favorable than mixing with individuals for an extended period of time, cohorts for an extended period of time inside where you don't have the air circulation.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050525", "text": "Remember public education, education broadly is absolutely about our kids, but we cannot deny the fact that we have hundreds of thousands of adults that are responsible to taking care and educating our kids as well.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050526", "text": "We do have an infrastructure where the county offices has worked directly with the districts in their counties and they're getting a lot of support from both of those agencies at the state level.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050527", "text": "As a consequence conditions, dynamics related to the spread of this disease in different parts of the state distinguish themselves from other parts of the state.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050528", "text": "The purpose of advancing the presentation today with that cause of concern is also highlighted by the nature of this virus now reaching North of 400, 000 positive cases that we've collected here in the state of California.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050529", "text": "It is an interesting fact, you don't have a requirement as an employer to connect to your local health officer if you've had an outbreak in your business, often that comes circuitously.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000050530", "text": "We were in the middle of this pandemic with certain emergency orders that we needed to advance in real time.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050531", "text": "So another critical component of mitigating the spread of this virus is also reminding people and you know we're educating.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050532", "text": "So I think it's just about education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050533", "text": "And they must in order to mitigate the spread of this virus, we're seeing increased mixing within households.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050534", "text": "So it gives again a relative sense of total healthcare, licensed bed capacity, and percentage of those that we have identified as COVID positive.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050535", "text": "One of the most important though investments we made was an $85.6 million investment to provide a new permanent workforce for Cal Fire.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050536", "text": "I of course will be doing an update on COVID, but there is a COVID connection to the announcements we're making here today as well.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050537", "text": "COVID might infect firefighters and or hand crews and keep them out of the firefight for a quarantine period or longer.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050538", "text": "The biggest concern remains San Quentin prison.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000050539", "text": "Housing and supportive services solve homelessness, and that's the framework of what we now refer to no longer as Project Room Key, which was our emergency frame, but now Home Key.", "issue": "Housing"}
{"id": "0000050540", "text": "One of the areas of biggest concern as it relates to the spread of COVID-19 in this state remains family gatherings, not just bars, not just out in streets where people are protesting, and the like.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000050541", "text": "Even before the pandemic, your budget cut funding in about half, and this was as the state had a surplus.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050542", "text": "What Loris just referenced though is not just the issues of housing, she also referenced the issue of homelessness.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000050543", "text": "As we battle COVID, we have not taken our eye off the ball in terms of our responsibility to address the issue of homelessness.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050544", "text": "Issue of healthcare foundationally, we'll continue to focus on and continue to lead on.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050545", "text": "Governor, my colleagues at NBC News reported that the pandemic is a perfect storm We're listening in here as the governor is giving his daily noontime briefing.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050546", "text": "In a worldwide pandemic, there are multiple states and countries that are demanding the same materials at the same time.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050547", "text": "Stanford's partnership is critical in looking at that innovative technology to scale up testing across the state.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050548", "text": "After 10 months of a defensive battle against this deadly virus, today we're taking the first step to protect people proactively.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050549", "text": "The most important pharmaceutical intervention is getting a vaccine when it's available, when your number proverbially is up.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050550", "text": "Well, the virus will make that determination.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050551", "text": "Again, similar to what they did with the Pfizer vaccine, they unanimously approved the safety and the efficacy of the Moderna vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050552", "text": "The issues related to food scarcity, food security, food assistance, agricultural assistance, nutrition assistance.", "issue": "scarcity"}
{"id": "0000050553", "text": "Indeed, as you said, the concern over the past many days is this new strain of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050554", "text": "I mean, some just don't necessarily believe this is a serious pandemic still, which is remarkable.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050555", "text": "A number of other states have done the same, but here in California, the scale and scope, the number of individuals, obviously that could avail themselves to this technology, this holds a lot of promise.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050556", "text": "FDA approval of Pfizer vaccine we expect this week as early as the 10th, and we expect the Moderna FDA approval, at least the discussion around that, to occur a week or so later.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050557", "text": "Many other states are using similar technology but they have had relatively few people use it and that limits how effective it can be.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050558", "text": "And second, as we all know you've emphasized equity as governor but the pandemic has exacerbated school in equity with low-income families having some of the worst access to education.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050559", "text": "Another important point is at the peak of the summer, some of the regions dealing with COVID had roughly 35% of their ICU capacity filled with COVID positive patients.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050560", "text": "So even if you were running at 50 or 60% capacity before COVID, you might be running close to 90, 95%.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050561", "text": "Some 6.3 million doses of the vaccine have now been administered here in the state of California.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050562", "text": "And as somebody who's been fighting this issue since the beginning of the pandemic, I can tell you for certain that it's a huge difference when you have a President in the White House that cares about equity.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050563", "text": "But this pandemic must be tackled by not just the federal government, but by the state leadership.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050564", "text": "So it's 21 days for the vaccine that's being administered here, Pfizer, 28 for Moderna.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050565", "text": "So the areas that have the highest prevalence of vaccine, we are prioritizing those members of our education workforce first, and then moving out from there.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050566", "text": "Also, being a husband to a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and being able to see firsthand the mental health issues that the pandemic has caused our youth, I'm a big advocate for getting youth sports back.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050567", "text": "But tougher yet is when we have plenty of vaccine, but people, not because they're anti-vaxxers, but because gee, they heard something on the radio or the TV that makes them reluctant.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050568", "text": "Primarily an issue with Moderna vaccine, doses have been impacted by inclement weather.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050569", "text": "And make no mistake, we're still in the fight against COVID, but with cases down and vaccinations up, we are cautiously optimistic that we're turning a corner and that better days are ahead.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050570", "text": "So far in the State of California, 4.65 million people, just shy of 4.7 million people, have been administered a dose of the vaccine, either Moderna or Pfizer.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050571", "text": "What we're doing at least in San Diego County is for seniors who don't have access to the Zoom technology, they can 211 and they can help make the appointment.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050572", "text": "Look, the issue of scarcity is the issue that we are all mindful of.", "issue": "scarcity"}
{"id": "0000050573", "text": "We have tripled our rate of administration of the vaccine, and I'll show you a chart that- ... of administration of the vaccine and I'll show you a chart that marks the period of time.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050574", "text": "Dental administration, so dentists administering the vaccine, the pharmacy techs, National Guard, more of our National Guard deployed to begin the distribution administration.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050575", "text": "So it's really built upon not a state infrastructure, but that public Sorry, that healthcare delivery infrastructure throughout the state.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050576", "text": "But it ends up turning out that they transmit COVID to many members of their family.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050577", "text": "And so when that happens, you pay the price, but you also own the mistake and you don't ever make it again.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000050578", "text": "Back to the mythology that somehow this disease separates itself exclusively by age or vulnerabilities that are defined by preexisting conditions and the like.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050579", "text": "Testing has improved substantially since the beginning of this pandemic, represented in those 198, 000 tests that we have improved upon recently.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050580", "text": "Well, we know with Pfizer, that means that the vaccine that they have requires these ultra low temperatures, these temperatures that make distribution, transportation of the vaccine, particularly challenging.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050581", "text": "I'm wondering if you can expand upon the science of the curfew decision and that concern that it might lead to other worst behavior.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000050582", "text": "We have waived the franchise tax in the state of California for new business startups.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000050583", "text": "And with that hope of the news of the vaccine, I think California can do it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050584", "text": "Early in the pandemic, you issued a number of executive orders related to the state's healthcare workforce.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050585", "text": "And frankly, COVID has made their life worse.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050586", "text": "The ones who are worried about healthcare and making sure that they can cover those costs.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050587", "text": "Two-thirds of all Californians will benefit from this stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000050588", "text": "So, first piece is there's no shortage of proposals for Democrats in the legislature for ways to spend this windfall, everything from more coverage for undocumented immigrants to more wildfire preparedness.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000050589", "text": "Amidst the pandemic and the economic slowdown, it is homelessness and housing affordability that San Diegans talk to myself and the Chairman about, demanding answers, demanding action.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050590", "text": "At that time, that was announced as an historic investment in the issue of housing and homelessness.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050591", "text": "Housing and supportive services solve homelessness.", "issue": "Housing"}
{"id": "0000050592", "text": "And the issue that housing and health are inextricably linked.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000050593", "text": "Someone that doesn't believe in a corporate tax, should be zero.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000050594", "text": "And vigilance demands considerations and reconsiderations.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000050595", "text": "We believe in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000050596", "text": "You said making it easier to build more housing in California would be at the top of your agenda this year, yet several high profile housing bills have died in recent weeks.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000050597", "text": "To the extent you asked has COVID had an impact.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050598", "text": "In Sacramento, police have been focusing on the root causes of crime and finding ways to work with communities to keep you safe.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050599", "text": "Let me tell you some of the things we do with President Biden, vice president Harris in a democratic majority, we will make healthcare affordable for all.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050600", "text": "We will protect voting rights, fight systemic racism in the criminal justice system and in our economy, and restore a Supreme court that looks out for people, not corporations.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000050601", "text": "We'll rebuild our infrastructure and make sure every home from inner city to rural America has broadband.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050602", "text": "But compounding the injury once the loved one passes away, many of these families, because of COVID, don't have money for a proper funeral and a proper burial.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050603", "text": "To try and decide this at this last time, at this late moment, is despicable and wrong and against democracy, Sen. Chuck Schumer said.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050604", "text": "To try and decide this at this last time, at this late moment, is despicable and wrong and against democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050605", "text": "It restores your faith in democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050606", "text": "Today, the threat to our democracy from the presidency itself has ended.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050607", "text": "Our democracy has long endured because leaders of good faith, even if they disagreed even at political cost, shared a fidelity to the truth.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050608", "text": "This bill, what we are proposing is proof to people who have lost faith in democracy, your vote matters.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050609", "text": "That's going to mean funding to get this vaccine out.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050610", "text": "Within six months of Barack Obama taking the oath of office North Korea had rattled its sabers twice, launching a rocket over the Pacific, and then conducting a nuclear test.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050611", "text": "Senator Schumer, knowing how critical you've been of the Trump Administration for its entire handling of the coronavirus, we now have two highly effective vaccines right on the horizon.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050612", "text": "From Louisiana to Missouri to Texas, Republican legislatures are waging a war on women, all women, and they're taking away fundamental rights.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050613", "text": "As we know, the pandemic has really set women, in particular women of color, back even further and made clear just how urgent it is for us to act.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050614", "text": "If you think about the economies of the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, the European Union joined together in common pursuit, that's a major challenge to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050615", "text": "Look, the bottom line, as I said, the S is very, very important to our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050616", "text": "And people across the country who have struggled the most with the economic consequences of this pandemic will get direct payments, tax relief, and unemployment benefits to ease these impossibly tough times.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050617", "text": "Too often during this pandemic, the message people have gotten from the federal government is you're on your own.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050618", "text": "When we're now in the same position, our priority is to cut child poverty in half with a different kind of tax cut.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000050619", "text": "Without help from the federal government, Kentucky's governor admits that the recession will be longer and unemployment will be greater.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000050620", "text": "We have to confront the devastating unrelenting epidemic of gun violence that steals thousands of innocent lives across this country.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000050621", "text": "That anyone, much less than an elected official would be willing to tarnish our democracy in order to burnish their personal political fortunes.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050622", "text": "Sadly, a small band of Republican objectors may darken the view of our democracy today, but a larger group of senators and house members from both sides of the aisle, can send a message too.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050623", "text": "The precise words of that oath were shortly written after the civil war, when the idea of true faith and allegiance to this country and its constitution took on enormous meaning.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050624", "text": "Madame President, the fight to protect our democracy is far from over in the United States Senate.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050625", "text": "But when Jason Crow said during his presentation that as a veteran having fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, what it felt like to search for a scrap metal.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000050626", "text": "They made energy so high and energy is all invasive.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050627", "text": "And we had inflation, the likes of which I guess we haven't, as a said, for 52 years, but I think more than that.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000050628", "text": "Our southern border and now our northern border are experiencing record migration.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000050629", "text": "If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050630", "text": "And within 24 hours, that war will be settled.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050631", "text": "The number of people being killed in that war is far greater than you're hearing.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050632", "text": "Hundreds and thousands of people are being killed and we have to get that war settled.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050633", "text": "In addition, we will make sure that there's unemployment that was added by $600.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050634", "text": "If you're experiencing flu-like symptoms, the folks we're testing, about 15% or so ... 15% have coronavirus, the other 85% have other ailments.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050635", "text": "So if you're experiencing flu-like symptoms, if you have not directly been exposed to somebody who has corona virus, there's probably about an 80, 85% chance you have something else, about a 15% chance you have corona virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050636", "text": "That routine that education gives them is such an important part of that normalcy that occurs in our households every day.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050637", "text": "I talk regularly with the commissioner of education, Katie Anthis, who's doing a good job.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050638", "text": "But as you know, COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything and impacted every one of us, including faith communities.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050639", "text": "The virus has spread less in areas that have had mask wearing orders by a statistically significant amount.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050640", "text": "The virus doesn't care what political party you're in, the virus doesn't care what belief system you have, the virus doesn't care what your ideology is.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050641", "text": "When we instituted mandatory face coverings in Denver, more about two months ago, it was a decision based on science as you just alluded to.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000050642", "text": "And because of the inner jurisdictional nature of the virus, it caused for a statewide response.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050643", "text": "We should be bombing the Mexican cartels and defending our border, not funding a war in Ukraine, defending their border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000050644", "text": "When a company has leases, the government can't take those away without compensation of some kind.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000050645", "text": "Your child's teacher, your nurse, or the person serving your food could be one of these at risk tenants, who is forced to inadvertently threaten the health and safety of the entire population.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000050646", "text": "So she lost her job during the pandemic and that grandmother was struggling to make the case for why she should be eligible for the Emergency Rental Assistance Fund.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050647", "text": "China wants to make sure that things work very well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050648", "text": "We have to win this war and ideally quickly, quickly.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050649", "text": "I mean, I don't think in terms of recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000050650", "text": "I don't think in terms of recession, not recession, it's words.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000050651", "text": "China and others have criticized you for using the phrase Chinese virus.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050652", "text": "Then one day we hear about this rumor in China and then we find out it's much more than a rumor and then all of a sudden we make a great decision to close it up early.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050653", "text": "And that's particularly important now during the virus is because it looks like right now, we won't convene a grand jury in Fulton County until October.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050654", "text": "The man who drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin last year now faces life in prison.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000050655", "text": "As a black woman, I find myself at a crucial intersection in American politics.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000050656", "text": "He understands and respects our democracy, the rule of law, and the US Constitution.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050657", "text": "With President Biden, Vice President Harris, and a Democratic majority, we will make healthcare affordable for all.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050658", "text": "We will protect voting rights, fight systemic racism in the criminal justice system and in our economy, and restore a Supreme Court that looks out for people, not corporations.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000050659", "text": "We'll rebuild our infrastructure and make sure every home, from inner city to rural America, has broadband.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050660", "text": "The grassroots energy of his supporters has amended important advances in our platform.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050661", "text": "He led the recovery effort after the last recession, and delivered on a promise to make our healthcare system fairer and stronger.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000050662", "text": "Han and I grew up in poverty as immigrants, but we've been able to make a decent living.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000050663", "text": "Here in Boise, we know that clean energy doesn't just mean a healthier planet.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050664", "text": "This pandemic has revealed just how important it is to protect and improve it.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050665", "text": "Again and again, they were told to give up on affordable healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050666", "text": "Joe Biden knows what affordable healthcare means to American families, because of what it's meant to his.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050667", "text": "After I was diagnosed, the president passed a tax bill that put my healthcare at risk.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050668", "text": "Out of the ashes of that war we made peace and rebuilt the world.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050669", "text": "In the Situation Room, presidents make decisions of war and peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050670", "text": "Having sent his son to war, I don't think anyone can be more ready than vice president Biden.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050671", "text": "Marley, so many young people are struggling with the changes due to COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050672", "text": "Getting back to the business side of it, the trade war was it was a real stressful and truly a devastating effect on the farm.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050673", "text": "Most probably what people can relate to mostly in agriculture is the soybean , and then whenever you compound the effects of the COVID-19 virus, nobody could have prevented that.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000050674", "text": "It's easy to lose faith in humanity, especially today, there's a lot of polarization.", "issue": "polarization"}
{"id": "0000050675", "text": "A virus attacks when the body is weak and when it cannot defend itself.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050676", "text": "Only a strong body can fight off the virus, and America's divisions weakened it.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050677", "text": "It couldn't fight off the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050678", "text": "The coronavirus has made it clear that there are two Americas, the America that Donald Trump lives in, and the America that my father died in.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050679", "text": "Donald Trump may not have caused the coronavirus, but his dishonesty and his irresponsible actions made it so much worse.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050680", "text": "We are confronting systemic racism and the enormous threat to our planet of climate change.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000050681", "text": "This president is not just a threat to our democracy, but by rejecting science, he has put our lives and health in jeopardy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050682", "text": "Joe will rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and fight the threat of climate change by transitioning us to 100% clean electricity over the next 15 years.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050683", "text": "He will tell the truth and trust science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000050684", "text": "The first 15 words of our constitution are, we the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, we say, more perfect, because our union is not without flaws.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000050685", "text": "Here in Detroit, in our communities for such a long time have faced the burden of pollution.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000050686", "text": "Many of them union like mine invest in critical infrastructure, upgrade millions of buildings, invest in micro mobility and precision agriculture.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050687", "text": "Joe's America will lead the world on clean energy, will lead on job creation and America will lead the world again on climate.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050688", "text": "Switching to renewable energy would mean cleaner air, better health, and a steady income for folks in neighborhoods like mine because solar PV installers and wind turbine are some of the fastest growing jobs in the country.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050689", "text": "Leaders who will fight against systemic racism and inequality.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000050690", "text": "She represents her views on education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050691", "text": "She represents her concerns about healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050692", "text": "From the fight for healthcare to offering the violence against women's act.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050693", "text": "Committed to our constitution, brilliant in defending it and a witness to the women of this nation that our voices will be heard.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000050694", "text": "Unemployment has skyrocketed and families are fighting to keep their jobs.", "issue": "Unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050695", "text": "For every farm there's a fight to stay whole.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000050696", "text": "Part of the language in the trade deal said that China does not have to buy unless the price is to their advantage.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050697", "text": "Through civil war and bitter struggles, we improved this constitution to include the voices of those who'd once been left out and gradually we made this country more just and more equal and more free.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050698", "text": "They believe that in a democracy, the right to vote is sacred and we should be making it easier for people to cast their ballots, not harder.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050699", "text": "That our ability to work together to solve big problems like a pandemic, depend on a fidelity to facts and science and logic and not just making stuff up.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050700", "text": "Last month, we lost a giant of American democracy in John Lewis, and some years ago, I sat down with John and a few remaining leaders of the early civil rights movement.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050701", "text": "So that no child in this country feels the continuing sting of racism", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000050702", "text": "This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes for them to win.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050703", "text": "Joe Biden has chosen an extraordinary woman to be his running mate.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000050704", "text": "Joe will bring us together to end this pandemic and make sure that we are prepared for the next one.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050705", "text": "Well, now we know, our healthcare, our jobs, our loved ones, our leadership in the world and even our post office.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050706", "text": "Every Democrat running for president has a plan to expand healthcare for all Americans.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050707", "text": "It's pretty simple, Democrats are trying to make your healthcare better, Republicans in Washington are trying to take it away.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050708", "text": "And we rank number one in parental involvement in education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050709", "text": "They have harmed education by subordinating the interests of students and parents to partisan interest groups.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050710", "text": "But we want to make sure that the infrastructure gets back up.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050711", "text": "And so the briefing I received is that the actual infrastructure in Hardee that is owned, run by the utilities or the co-ops, actually did pretty good.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050712", "text": "So, one of the things that we've done since I've been governor is set a goal of improving workforce education in the State of Florida, as proud as we are of having good universities that are affordable.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050713", "text": "So we have with us, our friends in education, the superintendents from Duval and Nassau county, Dr. Diana Green and Dr. Kathy Burns.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050714", "text": "The governor today is about celebrating your commitment to workforce education, and in particular, in the acceleration of workforce education throughout our state.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050715", "text": "As the governor mentioned, Florida's leading the way in civics education with almost 70% of our students achieving civics proficiency, with African-American, Hispanics and students from economically disadvantaged families leading those performance gains in our state.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050716", "text": "It's just when you're cranking the printing presses, you're making energy more expensive, that creates an upward pressure on all of this stuff.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050717", "text": "In the state of Florida, parents have a fundamental role in the education, healthcare, and wellbeing of their children.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050718", "text": "No ESG in the pension, no social credit scores, and no woke banking to discriminate against conservatives, not in the state of Florida", "issue": "pension"}
{"id": "0000050719", "text": "Parents have a fundamental right to direct the education and upbringing of their children.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050720", "text": "As president, I recognize that the woke mind virus represents a war on the truth.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050721", "text": "So we will wage a war on the woke.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050722", "text": "We will fight the woke in education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050723", "text": "The constitution of Florida has vested the veto power in the governor, not an individual state attorney. ... and that no individual prosecutor puts himself above the law.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000050724", "text": "Like law enforcement throughout the county, our criminal justice partners also take an oath to uphold the constitution, the dually enacted laws of this state and to be the voice for victims and the protectors of public interest.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000050725", "text": "At the same time, if the criminals commit a crime, there will be consequences for their actions.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050726", "text": "When you have this many people, mass migration at this scale represents a huge burden on communities.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000050727", "text": "It represents a burden on medical, on education, on criminal justice.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050728", "text": "First, we are going to declare this issue of the border to be a national emergency on day one.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000050729", "text": "And I would remind everyone that during that time, the first administration to express concern about Hunter Biden and his relationship with Burisma, and what was going on in the Ukraine was the Obama administration, it wasn't the Trump administration.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000050730", "text": "And, as a result, one person has already pled guilty and will go to jail.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000050731", "text": "The only thing that stood between the enemy and a deadly strike at the heart of American democracy was the courage and resolve of 40 men and women.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050732", "text": "Washington insiders asked me not to stand up to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050733", "text": "ISIS was rampaging, Iran was on the rise, and the war in Afghanistan had no end in sight.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050734", "text": "That is why China supports Joe Biden, and desperately wants him to win.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050735", "text": "Last year, over 1000 African-Americans were murdered as a result of violent crime in just four Democrat-run cities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050736", "text": "But the most important thing is prior to the virus, the greatest job numbers in the history of the African American community, the Hispanic community and the Asian, as I said.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050737", "text": "General Billy Mitchell saw the promise of this technology and risked court martial in his quest for an independent air force.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000050738", "text": "Ever since, Marines have fought in every American war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050739", "text": "The army brought America's righteous fury down to Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and cleared the bloodthirsty killers from their caves.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000050740", "text": "If you want to know the truth, the previous administration would have taken perhaps years to have a vaccine because of the FDA and all the approvals.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050741", "text": "I want to ask you about China though, because at that time you were actually praising President Xi.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050742", "text": "They said, This war is going to be tough.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050743", "text": "But with the vaccine, I think it will go away very quickly.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050744", "text": "I think you're going to have a GDP that's mid 20s and may be much higher.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000050745", "text": "I think maybe a great healthcare for less money.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050746", "text": "If Joe Biden ever got in, I think you'd have a depression, the likes of which we've never seen in this country.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000050747", "text": "He wanted to go to war with everybody.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050748", "text": "That was supposed to be a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050749", "text": "We would have a war, probably a nuclear war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050750", "text": "And I made a great trade deal with China,", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050751", "text": "Instead of waging war on the American Energy, we unleashed American Energy to make the United States the number one producer of oil and natural gas on earth.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050752", "text": "China unleashed the virus onto the world, and only a Trump administration will hold them accountable.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050753", "text": "In year one of my new term, I will stop Joe Biden's war on lawful gun owners.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050754", "text": "The pandemic has made it a very, very difficult year for our country and virtually every country all over the world.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050755", "text": "But on the other side in Mexico, they're suffering greatly with the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050756", "text": "As the world witness during our battle against the China virus, America has the greatest medical professionals anywhere on earth.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050757", "text": "On top of it all, former Vice President Joe Biden promised to give free federal healthcare to anyone in the world who illegally crosses our border.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050758", "text": "Under Operation Warp Speed, my administration is developing a vaccine in record time.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050759", "text": "In our all-out war against the virus, we've lifted bureaucratic barriers and marshaled America's scientific, industrial and technical brilliance.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050760", "text": "He says, Ethnicity does not cause the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050761", "text": "But it could be that China will ask for a suspension or something.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050762", "text": "In talking about China, you've been very clear about who you think is to blame or where the origin to blame for this virus is.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050763", "text": "In terms of our capacities in our healthcare system, any pandemic like this runs the risk of exceeding our healthcare system capacity, and we must acknowledge that.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050764", "text": "Well, I think ultimately, Iran maybe will become a member of this whole thing, if you want to really know the truth.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050765", "text": "I think if you're soft on Iran, you're not going to get peace with Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050766", "text": "A great people of Sudan are in charge and new democracy is taking root.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050767", "text": "They have been in a state of war and boycotted Israeli goods, there was no relationship whatsoever.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050768", "text": "And we haven't had a combat death in Afghanistan since February.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000050769", "text": "In Afghanistan, we have not had a combat death since February.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000050770", "text": "And also in Bahrain and seeing the region under your leadership united against the terrorists act from Iran and the issues in Iran, you have brought peace and stability to the region and security.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050771", "text": "That's bringing down the price, the cost of living for the citizens of Israel right away.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000050772", "text": "Well, I think ultimately Iran maybe will become a member of this whole thing, if you want to really know the truth.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050773", "text": "From an infrastructure standpoint, I know firsthand that improvements in our infrastructure will be a tremendous benefit to not only our customers, but also the communities that we serve.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050774", "text": "We were unfairly treated by China because they could have stopped it.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050775", "text": "But before I discuss a very historic breakthrough in our fight against the China virus, I'd like to provide an update on the recent wildfires in California and the storms in the Gulf of Mexico.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050776", "text": "From the beginning of this pandemic, the President has asked FDA to cut back red tape to try to speed medical products into the hands of providers, patients, and American consumers.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050777", "text": "As we continue to battle the virus, my administration is sheltering those at highest risk while rapidly developing treatments.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050778", "text": "We will crush the virus, our opponents will crush the black middle-class.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050779", "text": "The Democrat Party's war on cops has caused black owned businesses to be burned and black homes and churches to be totally destroyed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050780", "text": "Every year thousands of African-Americans are murdered as a result of violent crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050781", "text": "The way they run them, it's worse than Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000050782", "text": "They support the unlimited abortion of black children right up until the ninth month of pregnancy.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000050783", "text": "We've done South Korea, which is a fantastic deal for us.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050784", "text": "By the way, the deal with China is coming along very well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050785", "text": "The other region where we've been asked by Israel and Jordan to leave a small number of troops is a totally different section of Syria, near Jordan and close to Israel.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000050786", "text": "EPA and the Department of Army are implementing your WOTUS executive order in a two step process.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000050787", "text": "Deregulation is a key part of that great healthcare that you promised the American people, this vision of a personalized, affordable, patient centered system that puts you, the patient, in the center, and in control.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050788", "text": "But as the trade deals start kicking in with China, especially phase one with the farmers, and with the banks, the banking system, financial services.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050789", "text": "Right now I'm fighting to eradicate the virus and we're doing really a good job.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050790", "text": "At the same time, I have made it so great for energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000050791", "text": "You would've have been in a war without me, because North Korea, we were going to have a nice nuclear war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050792", "text": "Kim Jong-un, whatever happened to the war we were supposed to be in with Kim Jong-un.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050793", "text": "And on top of everything else, the Democrat Party declared war on our great police and law enforcement.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050794", "text": "And outside of poorly run Democrat states and cities, you don't have crime in this country.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050795", "text": "And then we're supposed to protect Germany from Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050796", "text": "Millions of phone calls made not one to Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050797", "text": "They believe in the constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000050798", "text": "Between a governor and a mayor, the crime is through the roof, the corruption is incredible, it's a sad thing that's happened to New York.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000050799", "text": "But the Democrats really waged war on the American workers for half a century.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050800", "text": "So I said, Angela, so we defend you against Russia and you pay billions of dollars to Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050801", "text": "Like the military with what he said, I think it's a disgrace and he should apologize.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050802", "text": "Our vet just got a 91% approval rating, the highest in the history of the V.A., our vets.", "issue": "vet"}
{"id": "0000050803", "text": "I think we should go to war with them.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050804", "text": "We were supposed to be at war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050805", "text": "No, we're supposed to be at war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050806", "text": "But to me, the most important thing has always been the military, our defense and our offense if needed.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050807", "text": "And in order to avoid the tariff, they're building plants in the United States and that's okay and that's what we should be doing.", "issue": "tariff"}
{"id": "0000050808", "text": "But once again, Joe Biden has sided with China over America.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050809", "text": "To protect our workers during the pandemic, I suspended the entry of new foreign workers who threatened American jobs.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050810", "text": "Joe Biden and the Democrat party, they've waged a war on police and cops and inciting riots.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050811", "text": "He'll wage war on Catholic organizations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050812", "text": "He'll wage war on Catholic organizations, like the Little Sisters of the Poor, which we defend, ban charter schools, bankrupt Catholic schools We help the Catholic church very much with our schools.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050813", "text": "And bringing investment to distressed communities across our country through opportunity zones, including 135 right here in South Carolina.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050814", "text": "Every Democrat running for president supports free federal welfare for illegal aliens funded by you, the American taxpayer.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000050815", "text": "We're making healthcare better and much cheaper.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050816", "text": "You get to use that drug, and the results have been unbelievable.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000050817", "text": "We support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000050818", "text": "The job of the American military is to secure and defend our country.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050819", "text": "Washington Democrats are trying to politicize the coronavirus, denigrating the noble work of our public health professionals.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050820", "text": "Very important to me, African American youth unemployment has reached an all time low.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050821", "text": "Every Democrat running for president supports free federal welfare for illegal aliens, on your tax.", "issue": "welfare"}
{"id": "0000050822", "text": "We're making healthcare better and much cheaper while premiums more than doubled in the last five years before I took office.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050823", "text": "Meanwhile, the George Floyd murder has re-ignited the issue of racism in policing in this country.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000050824", "text": "And on the issues, people trust Biden more to handle the coronavirus by 17 points, on race relations by 21 points.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050825", "text": "I think Russia must look at us, they say, These people are stone cold crazy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050826", "text": "Favored nations means you'll pay the lowest price anywhere in the world.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000050827", "text": "After the virus hit, we've recovered faster than any major nation on earth.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050828", "text": "And we have ended the war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050829", "text": "I'll tell you what, China came to the table, and we made a deal that's great for us and hopefully it's great for them.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050830", "text": "New Mexico is going to be a great, great state for the Republican party, and Arizona, what we're doing on the border in Arizona, they want us to do it badly.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000050831", "text": "We've done more to secure the border than any administration in the history of our country.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000050832", "text": "We're making healthcare better and much cheaper while premiums more than doubled in the five years before I took office.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050833", "text": "In so doing, I was fighting to defend American democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000050834", "text": "The virus has just stopped demand of everything, including oil.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050835", "text": "Previous administrations gave us very little ammunition for the military and very little shelf space.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050836", "text": "We also put a call directly out to the military because of the Roosevelt to really test all of the sailors on the Roosevelt with an antibody test to get to this critical issue of asymptomatic and already preexisting antibody.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050837", "text": "I think infrastructure for this country, we have an old broken infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050838", "text": "A few years after Iwo Jima, the soldiers of the United States Eighth Army defended the Pusan Perimeter, and Marines fought through and out of the chosen reservoir.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000050839", "text": "President, you have said that China is doing everything they can to make sure you don't get reelected.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050840", "text": "And whether it was Biden in charge of China, which was a joke because they ripped off our country for eight years.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050841", "text": "Just to help us out on this, to follow up on Jordan's question, you praised China in the past.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050842", "text": "So recently, we signed a trade deal with China, a number of months ago.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050843", "text": "And that will determine a lot how I feel about China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050844", "text": "You often describe this fight against the virus as a war.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050845", "text": "So it is a war and I define victory when it's gone and we opened successfully.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050846", "text": "Well, I'm making a trade deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050847", "text": "The United States is continuing to make substantial progress in our war against the virus.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050848", "text": "With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have deep concerns whether America's generosity has been put to the best use possible.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000050849", "text": "As we continue our medical war against the virus, the FDA has now authorized the first test developed by researchers from Rutgers University that can use saliva from patients.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050850", "text": "President, you were just criticizing the W.H.O. for praising China is transparent, but you were saying many of the same things about China just a couple of months ago.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050851", "text": "Well, I did a trade deal with China, where China is supposed to be spending $250 billion in our country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050852", "text": "My question, you are criticizing the W.H.O. for praising China for being transparent, but you also praised China for being transparent- I don't talk about China's transparency.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050853", "text": "Well, if I'm so good to China, how come I was the only person, the only leader of a country that closed our borders tightly against China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050854", "text": "A big day today in the White House, all of American society is engaged and mobilized in the war against the invisible enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050855", "text": "So you've been waiting for what are the most important positions as secretary of agriculture, is the position, it's distribution.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000050856", "text": "I think Russia is going to need ventilators.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050857", "text": "The new guidelines for opening up America again are a product of the best science and the best common sense that the president has marshaled on this team, and from a broad range of advisors from all across the nation.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000050858", "text": "When we talked with all of the states that had not had a major metro outbreak, their Sentinel Surveillances picked up always the first cases in nursing homes.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000050859", "text": "America is continuing to make critical progress at our war against the virus.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050860", "text": "We brought in the Comfort, and the Comfort was originally not supposed to be for this at all, the coronavirus, was not supposed to be for that at all.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050861", "text": "Some people have a rather broad view of what COVID related is because it has impacted almost every single business.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000050862", "text": "From China, why are there no consequences for China for the misinformation that they shared-", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050863", "text": "You can look back through times of war and other national emergencies.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050864", "text": "China deployed an aircraft carrier to the South China Sea this weekend amid claims by Chinese state media that COVID has reduced U.S. military readiness in the region.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050865", "text": "America agriculture has been hard hit like most of America with the Coronavirus, and President Trump is standing with our farmers and all Americans to make sure we all get through this national emergency.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000050866", "text": "Ultimate victory in this war will be made possible by America's scientific brilliance.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050867", "text": "So, in evaluating an outbreak and really to get control of this outbreak, they did about 27 tests per 1000.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000050868", "text": "President, some of your allies are calling for China to be stripped as host of the 2022 Olympics.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050869", "text": "So I just made a deal with China, where they're going to put in $250 billion of product.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050870", "text": "Look, if I wasn't elected, you would right now be at war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050871", "text": "If I wasn't elected, you would right now, maybe the war would be over, hopefully with a victory.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050872", "text": "Not a good way to fight a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050873", "text": "No, I think right now you'd be at war, essentially in some form, be over, it would be raging with North Korea, if I weren't president.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050874", "text": "China devalued their currency in order to pay these.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050875", "text": "Go back two months, we had by far, China was supposed to catch us.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050876", "text": "America continues to make steady progress in our war against the virus.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050877", "text": "And we ended up making an incredible deal with China for tens of billions of dollars of product, 40 to $50 billion to the farmers.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050878", "text": "This is not a good thing that happened, came out of China, so we're not in a position where we're going to say much yet, but the deal itself is great.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050879", "text": "So we're going to continue to fight the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050880", "text": "With China, we made the deal and we became friendly.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050881", "text": "Today we hit the grim milestone of more than 40, 000 Americans now having died from the coronavirus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050882", "text": "But I want the men and women of this country that are in danger, the admirals and the generals that have done a job like they've never done before, they're in war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050883", "text": "On President Xi, you now talk about the missteps that China made early on in this crisis and how it put the United States-", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050884", "text": "You, and the Obama administration were duped for years because China was ripping off this country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050885", "text": "At a time when millions of American workers and families are struggling with the financial consequences of the virus, it's critical to continue the medical war while reopening the economy in a safe and responsible fashion.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050886", "text": "The General's in charge of the wall on the Southern border, and we want to build 450 miles of wall and it's very much under construction.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000050887", "text": "This pandemic has reaffirmed the importance of keeping vital supply chains at home.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050888", "text": "And part of our process, and I don't know when the governor placed the order from South Korea, wouldn't begrudge him or his health officials for ordering tests.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000050889", "text": "But on the military, I mean, we're paying for the military to defend another nation that's 8, 500 miles away.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050890", "text": "In many cases, we didn't have a contract, like we didn't have a contract, we didn't have a trade deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050891", "text": "The New York metropolitan area has been the epicenter of the outbreak here in America, and the federal government has spared no expense or resource to get New Yorkers the care they need and the care they deserve.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000050892", "text": "We continue to gain ground in the war against the unseen enemy, and I see light at the end of the tunnel.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050893", "text": "This will be absolutely critical, and there's surveillance that we called for that was to find asymptomatics before people get sick, as an early warning signal.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000050894", "text": "The headline says CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050895", "text": "In our all out war against the virus, we continue to make great strides on testing, famous testing, doing more than anybody else anywhere in the world.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050896", "text": "As I'VE said before here, when you look at an outbreak, it's two dynamic forces opposing each other.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000050897", "text": "And from our point of view, at preventing you from catching coronavirus in a significant way.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050898", "text": "Yesterday, 1, 013 medical professionals in our military were actually deployed to 19 hospitals in seven states to support those amazing healthcare workers.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050899", "text": "The virus does not survive as well in droplets of saliva, and that's important because a lot of testing being done is not necessarily being done, number one, with the COVID-19 virus and number two, in saliva or respiratory fluids.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050900", "text": "As we continue to characterize this virus and integrate our findings into practical applications to mitigate exposure and transmission.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050901", "text": "You would have been in a war with North Korea if I didn't get elected President.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050902", "text": "We ask every American to maintain vigilance and hygiene, social distancing and voluntary use of face coverings.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000050903", "text": "They've taken a very big hit and medical providers in areas less effected by the virus, hospitals and doctors should work with their state and local health officials on ways to safely resume elective medical treatments and care.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050904", "text": "And they're part of this army of healthcare professionals and front store and first line supervisors and workers that are doing terrific things to bring our country together.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000050905", "text": "We put a ban on China other than our citizens coming in.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050906", "text": "I mean, you can look at China, you can look at numerous countries where I don't think those are right numbers.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050907", "text": "A majority of polls show that Americans blame China for the spread of the coronavirus and yet they're taking advantage of the crisis to make the world more dependent on their supply chains.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050908", "text": "If you look prior to this virus, the deficit was coming way down under my administration because I put massive tariffs on China.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050909", "text": "Germany sent a bill to China for 130 billion Euros for the damages caused by the coronavirus.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050910", "text": "The big decision was closing the border or doing the ban, people coming in from China.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000050911", "text": "And now those workers, all of which have some form of disability are able to bring cheer and bring comfort to your clients as you're serving them.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000050912", "text": "This order continues my administration's focus on rural healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050913", "text": "What the price is, the United States should get a very large percentage of that price because we're making it possible.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000050914", "text": "I think our attitude on China has changed greatly since the China virus hit us.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050915", "text": "Today, only 6% of the current hospitalizations in the state are related to the China virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050916", "text": "As it has worked to contain its outbreak, Arizona has also been formulating a plan to get children safely back to school as soon as possible.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000050917", "text": "Thanks to the robust federal action in partnership with state and local leaders, new cases of the virus are declining in 80% of the jurisdictions, which is an incredible number.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050918", "text": "And also, survivors who have faced heightened dangers during the pandemic, it's actually increased during the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050919", "text": "The China virus is a vicious and dangerous illness, but we've learned a great deal about it and who it targets.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050920", "text": "As far as the coronavirus, as you say, I think we've done some amazing things.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050921", "text": "I have a question on crime, but first I don't think we've really got an explanation yesterday on why the health experts are no longer joining you at these briefings.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000050922", "text": "China, speaking about China, the trade deal means less to me now than it did when I made it.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050923", "text": "But I said, I think a payroll tax would be good.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000050924", "text": "By the end of this year, we're going to, in terms of the vaccine, I think in terms of therapeutics, even sooner than that.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000050925", "text": "But these states have also seen the virus substantially rebound and again, no one is immune.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050926", "text": "We now know a great deal about the virus and how to treat it and who it targets.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050927", "text": "More than 2 million Americans have recovered from the virus and today we're asking them to visit Coronavirus.gov, Coronavirus.gov, and volunteer to donate plasma.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050928", "text": "This pandemic has underscored the importance of economic policies that put American families and workers first.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050929", "text": "We also reached an agreement yesterday on a new legislative package that will provide strong support for American families and communities in dealing with the coronavirus, so it was done very, very bipartisan.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050930", "text": "Things have switched over now to outside of China, which has actually triggered our decision, the decision of the President to do the travel restrictions in other areas besides China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050931", "text": "You're saying the risk of a serious illness remains low.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000050932", "text": "I've talked before about the extensive surveillance that CDC has made available to this country.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000050933", "text": "This is their influenza like illness surveillance system that has been up and running for more than a decade now.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000050934", "text": "So there is still significant virus circulating here that is followed by Nebraska, Illinois, because of Chicago and what we've talked about before, about Minnesota.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050935", "text": "The president's talked about the issue of infrastructure since the campaign.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050936", "text": "So unemployment is intended for those people that are some of the mid-size or larger businesses and we're very sympathetic to this, that these companies can't afford, and for those people, the enhanced unemployment will be a significant benefit.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000050937", "text": "So if we spend a trillion to support 10 trillion or 11 trillion, I think that's a significant investment and that's what we're focused on.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000050938", "text": "They were doing real estate deals in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000050939", "text": "We're not looking for government takeover.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000050940", "text": "I think infrastructure would be a fantastic thing to do.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050941", "text": "But as we wage medical war on the virus, we're also speeding economic relief to our people.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050942", "text": "If we do a bond issue to do infrastructure, everybody wants a piece of that issue, even at zero interest.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050943", "text": "So, at the time, though, when Peter Navarro did circulate those memos, you were still downplaying the threat of coronavirus in the US.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050944", "text": "But it's been these heroic Americans from the farm to the fork that have made it possible for Americans to have one less worry and they are truly inspiring heroes.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000050945", "text": "And we'll continue to do that as the coronavirus makes its way through these communities and through communities that are very much on our watch list today.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050946", "text": "And I think this kind of education and dialogue is always critical when you want communities.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050947", "text": "But the most important thing we can do is put this epidemic behind us as quickly as possible.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000050948", "text": "And Saudi Arabia and as you know Russia, it's well known that we're producing a lot and they were perhaps fighting with each other over the production and the amount of oil being produced.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000050949", "text": "Because what you're not seeing in spectrum of disease is people who never even think that this is something significant, what they have.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050950", "text": "Hydroxy chloroquine, which I think is, you know, it's a great malaria drug.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000050951", "text": "We're tracing and tracking not only the epidemic at the state level but understanding what's happening in county by county with new cases, and of course also the deaths.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000050952", "text": "This week, America continues our aggressive effort to defeat the virus as we enter a crucial and difficult phase of the battle.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050953", "text": "To fight the medical war, we've mobilized the unbeatable and it just It is unbeatable strength of American determination, ingenuity and compassion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050954", "text": "I think that when you add the tremendous stimulus that we're giving, like for instance, deductibility for restaurant expenses, for restaurants and entertainment.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000050955", "text": "Now China has agreed to spend $250 billion, many billions of dollars in our country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050956", "text": "We're going to be very careful to make sure that when we tell you you're likely immune from the disease, that test really said that.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050957", "text": "It would be very important to know if the virus is still circulating here, whether for example a healthcare worker, or a longterm care nursing home worker is immune from the virus and can't carry it.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050958", "text": "I mean the truth is the threat of serious illness for most Americans is relatively low.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000050959", "text": "Because Bernie and I agree on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000050960", "text": "But China has to spend almost $250 billion on purchasing our products, $40 to $50 billion with our farmers, and the Bernie Sanders people are big believers on what I'm saying on trade.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050961", "text": "Tomorrow with the surgeon general and others on the White House team, we'll be speaking with leaders in the African American community and as Dr Fauci will reflect, there have been historic challenges in the healthcare of the African African American communities.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050962", "text": "So, there is still a significant amount of disease there and everyone needs to continue to follow the guidelines.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050963", "text": "So we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states ...", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000050964", "text": "But we're doing the right thing, we have to get rid of, and our big war, it's not a financial war, it's a war ...", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050965", "text": "An important part of that work is expanding the potential therapeutic options associated with coronavirus, and we've learned from our colleagues across the globe about this.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050966", "text": "If there's an experimental drug that's potentially available, a doctor could ask for that drug to be used in a patient.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000050967", "text": "These two members of Congress that have tested positive for coronavirus, these will be votes that you need to pass this $1 trillion stimulus package for the economy.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050968", "text": "I mean, they are siding with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050969", "text": "We want to win the war was with his few, if you look at it, just deaths as possible.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050970", "text": "And some of them are still suffering the wounds of war from many years ago.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050971", "text": "Also, your administration eliminated a key position in China in July, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China's disease control agency.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050972", "text": "This is a war, different kind of a war that we've ever had.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050973", "text": "Now, we are running the bad healthcare much better than it was ever run and we're making it better.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000050974", "text": "That doesn't mean that individuals won't have severe disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000050975", "text": "Obviously, Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for coronavirus, but he was not in contact with anybody who was a known positive and he didn't have any major symptoms.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050976", "text": "And so, when you are doing all of your flu surveillance, you could, had small cases of these pneumonias and flu-like illnesses characterized as a flu-like illness for the last four to six weeks.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000050977", "text": "I spoke to the secretary of education today and we're going to have her at the podium very soon.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050978", "text": "The secretary of education at the president's urging has loosened the rules around distance learning.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050979", "text": "But also the department of education is setting up a website and best practices information for K through 12 distance learning and she actually told me that the state of Florida and New Hampshire are really setting the pace on distance learning for K-12.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050980", "text": "But the department of education is determined to continue to make those best practices available.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000050981", "text": "We're specifically looking at people that work in critical infrastructure, people in law enforcement, people in critical transportation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000050982", "text": "And decide that further stimulus is needed.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000050983", "text": "President some states are reporting a shortage of materials needed to actually process the tests.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000050984", "text": "But the truth is it makes certain things like trade much tougher.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000050985", "text": "Which again, makes that trading more difficult.", "issue": "trading"}
{"id": "0000050986", "text": "In order to defeat the virus, we must continue to be very strong.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050987", "text": "America's bravely battling this pandemic through cutting edge science and medical innovation and rational, deliberate and determined vigilance.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000050988", "text": "They're talking about... the only one I've heard that from, like as an example, China pays 25% interest on $250 billion worth of product that they send in.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050989", "text": "They want to win the battle against the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050990", "text": "We made a deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050991", "text": "I made a decision to stop China from coming in.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000050992", "text": "So America continues to wage all out war to defeat the virus, this horrible, horrible virus.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050993", "text": "We're attacking the virus in every front with social distancing, economic support for our workers, rapid medical intervention, and very serious innovation and banning dangerous foreign travel that threatens the health of our people.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000050994", "text": "We must not let the drug cartels exploit the pandemic to threaten American lives.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000050995", "text": "At a time when the nation and the Department of Defense are focused on protecting the American people from the spread of the coronavirus, we also remain vigilant to the many other threats our country faces.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050996", "text": "While the men and women of the United States military work hard here at home to fight the coronavirus, we continue to take action around the world to defend our great country.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000050997", "text": "We're the United States military and we will defend our country, regardless of the cost.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000050998", "text": "You know, this drug war has gone on for many decades and at times in the past we've had great success and great results and at times we've taken our eye off the ball.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000050999", "text": "It was led by Iran, not necessarily Iran, but by groups supported by Iran, but that to me is Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051000", "text": "So your administration is not- I would love China and other countries if they have additional supplies, medical supplies to give to other countries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051001", "text": "In order to stop the spread of the virus, some of these families have delayed planned moves to their next duty station and in other cases, military families are also waiting longer to welcome home the heroes from deployment.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051002", "text": "Iran is struggling with the virus ...", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051003", "text": "We don't want hostility, but if they are hostile to us, they're going to regret it like they've never regretted anything before, as per today's statement.", "issue": "hostility"}
{"id": "0000051004", "text": "He angrily defended his handling of the virus, and promoted the drug hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051005", "text": "These new rules and procedures will not impede lawful trade and commerce.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051006", "text": "Those include reducing risk to America from Afghanistan, holding the Iranian regime accountable for its activity, and our counter terrorism efforts against ISIS remain a priority for our team.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051007", "text": "It's also important to note that the outbreak on our Southern border would likely increase the strain on health systems in our border communities, taking away important and life saving resources from American citizens.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000051008", "text": "Then over time as the outbreak evolved, the President restricted travel from China, Iran and Europe.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000051009", "text": "This is not a drug that, obviously, I think I can speak from a lot of experience, because it's been out there for over 20 years.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000051010", "text": "Secretary, question on Iran again, is there any considerations to relax some sanctions in Iran during the Coronavirus crisis hard hit.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051011", "text": "Once that virus is defeated, Steve, I think everything else falls in place very rapidly.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051012", "text": "And combine that with strategic surveillance so that we're testing symptomatic people and their contacts very quickly to go back to contract tracing, utilizing our complete strategy.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000051013", "text": "I think our country, with the stimulus, with all that we've been through, we've learned a lot.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000051014", "text": "I think the stimulus is very important to what we're doing.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000051015", "text": "China has taken advantage of us through that and using rules that are unfair to the United States and they should have never been allowed.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051016", "text": "I said to them, representatives of China, at the top level...", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051017", "text": "We fight on the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051018", "text": "Nobody has done to China or treated China as strongly as I have, used the word strongly.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051019", "text": "With where I'm coming from, because they see my attitude, my attitude toward China is not friendly, but they have gone into orders that are extremely large, extremely large.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051020", "text": "There is a company but it's a company within China, that means China, and the deal will have to be substantially beneficial to the United States and we need total security.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051021", "text": "The payroll tax is very important and a very big benefit to people as you know.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000051022", "text": "America continues to gain ground in the war against the virus.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051023", "text": "They've been collecting supplies, distributing food, supporting healthcare workers, caring for vulnerable workers and families", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000051024", "text": "Hopefully this war will be won quicker, but we expect that this is a significant amount of money if needed to cover the economy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051025", "text": "It's been very, very much sided with China and a lot of people are not happy about it.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051026", "text": "Remember that the risk of serious illness to the average American remains low.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000051027", "text": "If you go to cdc.gov and go to flu surveillance, you can see state by state and you can be looking at those curves with us.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000051028", "text": "But as I told Governor Whitmer today, who's leading her state through all of this with great energy, we want to partner with her.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051029", "text": "And we don't like steel coming through our border that's been dumped in Canada so they could avoid the tariff.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051030", "text": "And we just signed a very big deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051031", "text": "But we just made a great deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051032", "text": "But we've made a deal with China and we're going to do another one it looks like.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051033", "text": "So, we do have states that have been doing surveillance all along, who have been doing contact tracing all along.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000051034", "text": "Every citizen, family, and business can make the difference in stopping the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051035", "text": "Today we reached a historic milestone in our war against the coronavirus.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051036", "text": "It was a different war than anybody has ever fought before, but it's a war that we're uniquely qualified to help.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051037", "text": "As one of the world's largest defense contractors and some of the best technology, we're using that technology to try and solve some real world problems.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000051038", "text": "All of the people at UTC and Raytheon are focused on this war and winning it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051039", "text": "They're going into war, they're going into a battle that they've never really trained for.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051040", "text": "I got approval from Ukraine, because I didn't want to do it without their approval.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051041", "text": "President, last week, the last couple days, you've been really optimistic about Russia and Saudi Arabia coming together on the deal on oil, but in the last 24 hours, the OPEC-Plus has been pushed back.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051042", "text": "There's a tremendous energy, there's a tremendous demand and, some good things have happened.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051043", "text": "We heard about reports from China that something was happening and all of a sudden we did make a good decision.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051044", "text": "If you have coronavirus, it is less how you feel than whether or not you're still shedding virus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051045", "text": "A surgeon in Fresno, California says, We are at war with no ammo.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051046", "text": "I think the people of China are incredible.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051047", "text": "I consulted with Mike, but we made a decision, I made a decision to close off to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051048", "text": "I took a lot of heat from China, they weren't happy with it.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051049", "text": "I mean this pandemic, but we've had bad epidemics.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051050", "text": "What we're trying to figure out in this whole scenario here is how deadly the virus is, and so far it is highly contagious, but not very deadly.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051051", "text": "Since the early stages of the foreign outbreak, my administration is taking the most aggressive action in modern history to confront the spread of this disease.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000051052", "text": "I want to say that China seems to be making tremendous progress.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051053", "text": "Experts now agree that the decision to move so quickly despite a lot of opposition on that decision was a wise one, it greatly slowed the spread of the virus to the United States.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051054", "text": "From the moment that this country learned of the spread of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump took decisive action, established the White House Coronavirus Task Force.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051055", "text": "And they're making a lot of progress in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051056", "text": "Well I think our relationship with China is very good.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051057", "text": "We're starting on another trade deal with China, a very big one and we've been working very closely.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051058", "text": "When he was governor of Indiana, the Vice President allowed an HIV outbreak to spiral out of control because he did not heed the advice of his public health professional advisors who said that needle exchange was necessary at the beginning of the outbreak.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000051059", "text": "The Biden administration is actually bragging about the classroom education they are providing to migrant children on the border.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051060", "text": "At the same time, the new administration unilaterally withdrew our crippling sanctions on Iran, foolishly giving away all of America's leveraged before negotiations have even begun.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051061", "text": "So we could have made the same deal that China had 39 million.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051062", "text": "And in one of his first official acts, which was incredible, because again, he talked about energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051063", "text": "We believe in patriotic education and strongly oppose the radical indoctrination of America's youth.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051064", "text": "But in all fairness to China, we made a trade deal with them.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051065", "text": "Now take 504 million and make it $504 billion, we had deficits with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051066", "text": "The Democrats used the China virus as an excuse to change all of the election rules without the approval of their state legislatures, making it therefore illegal and had a massive impact on the election.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051067", "text": "Instead of attacking me and more importantly the voters of our movement, top establishment Republicans in Washington should be spending their energy in opposing Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and the Democrats.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051068", "text": "Now the Biden administration has turned the border into the single greatest disaster in American history, and perhaps in world history.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051069", "text": "In addition to their malicious attacks on free speech, these Silicon Valley tyrants are also attacking our democracy itself.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000051070", "text": "They fight against the military, always fighting budgets, military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051071", "text": "The crime was opposing the radical left Democrat party.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051072", "text": "Against the howls and cries of the corporate interests and the Washington lobbyists, we demanded fair trade for the American workers and we did a great job on that.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051073", "text": "We made a great deal with China, which has immeasurably helped our farmers and manufacturers, and we put the Chinese Communist Party on defense for the first time ever in our history of our country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051074", "text": "But now China is totally on the offense, making Joe Biden and our country look week, and pathetic.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051075", "text": "We will hold China accountable for the damage and suffering they have caused, and make them pay trillions of dollars in reparations to us and to the world.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051076", "text": "We believe in patriotic education for our children, and we strongly oppose the radical indoctrination of America's youth.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051077", "text": "Biden has obliterated our border, given up our energy independence, caused soaring inflation.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051078", "text": "And you're going to continue fighting your civil war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051079", "text": "But since my administration began the negotiations on the peace deal last year, not a single American service member has been killed in combat in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051080", "text": "I could just see this, the leadership of the Taliban standing there, somebody walking up, Sir, the soldiers have left Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051081", "text": "The issue here is not about whether to leave Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051082", "text": "And I just heard, they made a deal with South Korea to pay a cost of living adjustment.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051083", "text": "When I left office we handed the new administration the most secure border in US history and they turned it into the greatest border disaster in American history, probably anywhere in the world.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051084", "text": "We just met such a great deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051085", "text": "Tonight we forcefully condemn the blatant corruption of the Democrat party and nobody ever pays the price with the Democrats.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051086", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late-term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up until the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051087", "text": "There'll be more death, but the virus will pass with or without a vaccine and I think we're doing very well in vaccines.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051088", "text": "And the other thing I wanted to check very carefully and it's very important is corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051089", "text": "Initially, you said repeatedly to Americans that after Iran retaliated for the Soleimani strike, no Americans were injured.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051090", "text": "I took it out of the military because I consider it to be defense of our country.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051091", "text": "We believe those people belong in jail.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000051092", "text": "The drug cartels are waging war in America, and it's time that America wage war on the cartels.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051093", "text": "We'll end Joe Biden's war on American energy and restore American energy independence as we had it just two years ago.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051094", "text": "And I will force China to sell any current holdings in the United States that puts our national security at risk.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051095", "text": "He's going to cause a war in his first week in office, because they think that's my personality type.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051096", "text": "But, if I were president, you would have zero chance that that war would've happened.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051097", "text": "And with their monstrous invasion of Ukraine, Russia showed just how weak they think our leaders are.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051098", "text": "The reason we were keeping Bagram is because of China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051099", "text": "So we're defending Europe, at the same time, they rip us off on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051100", "text": "But I put more sanctions on Russia than anyone else.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051101", "text": "We have Russia and China representing us on a certain deal.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051102", "text": "It's causing cost of food, cars, housing, and raising a family to absolutely skyrocket.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000051103", "text": "That includes winning the war to restore free speech in America.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051104", "text": "The most important job of any president when it comes to democracy is safeguarding our democracy at home, which we are losing to collusion between big government and big business.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000051105", "text": "The Democrat bill will also admit every foreign national previously denied under my national security travel ban.", "issue": "national security"}
{"id": "0000051106", "text": "They used COVID in order to cheat and rig.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051107", "text": "I think to me, Afghanistan is the most embarrassing event in the history of our country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051108", "text": "Again, they used COVID in order to cheat, with all of these ballots and all of this early voting and late voting.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051109", "text": "I then signed a trade deal with China that made so much sense because they were taking such advantage of our country, but the farmers were the biggest beneficiary, and manufacturers too.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051110", "text": "We will hold China accountable for unleashing the virus and charge them trillions of dollars for the unbelievable suffering they have caused to our country and all around the world.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051111", "text": "Our opponents will send your jobs to China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051112", "text": "A critical issue because they were targeted by China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051113", "text": "On November 3rd, Minnesota will decide whether we end this pandemic, defeat the virus, and return to record prosperity.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051114", "text": "Iran should never have the nuclear weapon, and its situation should not threaten the stability of the region.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051115", "text": "The idea is to make sure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon and have more disability in the long term.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051116", "text": "We have international rules that govern international trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051117", "text": "On this digital tax, we've worked a lot bilaterally as well and we have reached an agreement to overcome the hurdles.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000051118", "text": "There is also the agreement with China, and we're going to work hand-in-hand on all of the different issues.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051119", "text": "For me, the most effective way forward, and the most strategic way forward, in settling our trade relations with China is to develop trade, but also to ensure that that trade is part of international trade rules.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051120", "text": "A major economy where there's been lots of investment from the United States, European countries, Canada and Japan.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051121", "text": "The vice chairman of China came out that he wants to see a deal made.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051122", "text": "And frankly, I think that China cannot, I don't know, but maybe they can, maybe they can't.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051123", "text": "Every one of them was backed by Iran or in some cases, actually using Iranian soldiers, but at a minimum Iranian wealth.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051124", "text": "With that being said, I think that Iran is a country of tremendous potential.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051125", "text": "I think Iran wants to get this situation straightened out.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051126", "text": "I think it would be better to have Russia inside the tent than outside the tent.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051127", "text": "I think it's a positive for Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051128", "text": "I think it's a big positive for Russia and it's something the group is discussing.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051129", "text": "I feel that the United States has tremendous wealth.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000051130", "text": "I've made that wealth come alive.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000051131", "text": "I was able to get An war in Alaska, could be the largest site in the world for oil and gas.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051132", "text": "I was able to get An war approved.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051133", "text": "NATO has made a lot of progress over the last three years, and the word flexibility is very important.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000051134", "text": "I think without us, NATO certainly is not the same thing as we discussed, and discuss it at length.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000051135", "text": "Maybe, as I said, we'll deal with them on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051136", "text": "So, they decided not to be compliant with NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000051137", "text": "And I think the situation in Ukraine is very important.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051138", "text": "So, we're going to be dealing with Russia on a treaty where we really...", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051139", "text": "Under my leadership we achieved the most secure border, Southern border in US history.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051140", "text": "The incredible people of Pennsylvania, we have made America powerful again, our military had never been like this.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051141", "text": "This president has made the vaccine widely available.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051142", "text": "And then when you look at Afghanistan, you talk to military families and they say, We don't trust this administration.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051143", "text": "And don't think that China and Russia and North Korea and Iran weren't watching, because that was the greatest embarrassment in the history of our country, in my opinion.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051144", "text": "We just signed a deal with South Korea a tremendous deal.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051145", "text": "We're making tremendous deals, but you have to understand, these deals with China, they've been taking advantage of us for 25 years.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051146", "text": "What's happening on the border is one of the great embarrassments for our country also.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051147", "text": "And I think Afghanistan was a disaster.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051148", "text": "Well, I think the military is largely discredited.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051149", "text": "Now, when you talk about inflation, the biggest factor in my opinion is no energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051150", "text": "The most important thing you have to do, I say, is the military, but a lot of people say it's judges and justices of the Supreme Court.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051151", "text": "There's been no war and we're respected again.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051152", "text": "If the other side got in, you would right now be in a big war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051153", "text": "We're getting sanctions and we're not in war with North Korea, which is not bad.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051154", "text": "We could win that war very easily but I don't feel like killing millions of people in order to do it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051155", "text": "Turkey is big, Syria is fine, let them fight their own battles.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051156", "text": "Biden is waging war against the American middle class.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051157", "text": "Before the virus, my administration added over 200 new auto and auto parts plants.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051158", "text": "Biden has vowed to remove these tariffs and allow China to resume its pillaging.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051159", "text": "Even though we made a trade deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051160", "text": "But when I made the deal with China, I left the tariffs on 25% and some different amounts.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051161", "text": "They were going to be at war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051162", "text": "All I know is, we're not in war and that's okay.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051163", "text": "And this is said by one of the guy's that got us into the war in Iraq, got us into the Middle East.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051164", "text": "He supported the Defense Sequester that gutted our military, destroyed our military, set us back so many years.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051165", "text": "So, he wants to belittle the vaccine because he doesn't want us to get credit.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051166", "text": "And they said, He was asking Russia for help.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051167", "text": "Now, we're doing outdoor because of COVID, sometimes referred to as the China Virus, which I think is a far more accurate word.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051168", "text": "The ink hadn't even dried on our trade deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051169", "text": "This was caused by Russia, Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051170", "text": "Russia caused this.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051171", "text": "It was meant to take away our wealth.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000051172", "text": "The battle of the China virus, we launched the largest mobilization since World War II.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051173", "text": "When the virus hit, we experienced the smallest contraction of any major country anywhere in the world.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051174", "text": "He also voted for the war in Iraq, terrible decision.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051175", "text": "Under my leadership we achieved the most secure border in US history by far.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051176", "text": "Together with the incredible people of North Carolina, we have made America powerful again, our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051177", "text": "When you talk about no criminality, I think it's very dangerous for you to say that.", "issue": "criminality"}
{"id": "0000051178", "text": "They'll wage war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051179", "text": "We agree with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051180", "text": "He wants to do a total government takeover of healthcare that will destroy your doctor's offices and rural hospitals.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000051181", "text": "We want to defend our border if it's okay.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051182", "text": "We ended the war on American energy and the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere on earth.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051183", "text": "Remember I came in, it was going to be war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051184", "text": "It was going to be war with everybody.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051185", "text": "You will never try and bribe a dictator like Clinton did with North Korea and like Biden, Obama did with the mullahs.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051186", "text": "Well, I think that in the case of Iran, they know that better than even you do and probably even stronger than you said it.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051187", "text": "Had Hillary Clinton won this election, you'd be at war right now with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051188", "text": "I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize true and international pressure, isolated punish China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051189", "text": "Our high crime, which is all of them, Democrat run cities are also being ravaged by the scorge of violent crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051190", "text": "They see a controlling authoritarian surveillance state of China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051191", "text": "I ended the war on Pennsylvania oil and gas and I ended the war on clean, beautiful coal.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051192", "text": "And today, we're begging for energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051193", "text": "We're begging enemies for energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051194", "text": "It's where the army weathered its brutal winter at Valley Forge, where General George Washington led his men in a daring mission across the Delaware, and where our union was saved by the immortal heroes at Gettysburg.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000051195", "text": "The radical left in America is waging open war on law enforcement.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051196", "text": "My administration has achieved the most secure border in American history.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051197", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late-term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb, right up until the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051198", "text": "We just finished a deal with South Korea, a great new trade deal.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051199", "text": "China was ripping us off, making 600 billion dollars a year.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051200", "text": "They treat us horribly on trade and I'm watching these different deals that they're announcing.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051201", "text": "I promised to rebuild our military, withdraw from the ridiculous Iran Nuclear Deal.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051202", "text": "And before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051203", "text": "He restricted energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051204", "text": "We are a nation that has the highest inflation in 50 years, where banks are collapsing and interest rates are far too high.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000051205", "text": "This war would be World War III and far more devastating than any of the previous world wars because of the weaponry that no one even wants to think about or discuss.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051206", "text": "Before this pandemic and after this pandemic, our economy has been booming in the state of Arizona.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051207", "text": "And I think the cost of energy has a big part of what's going to impact families and businesses in the future.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051208", "text": "I think that the vaccine was our goal.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051209", "text": "That vaccine is likely to complete its efficacy trial in terms of assessing efficacy of the vaccine probably early in the month of January and hopefully would file for emergency use authorization either late in January or early in February.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051210", "text": "First, the Pfizer vaccine is depicted up front, top half of the chart.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051211", "text": "Pfizer has chosen to do their own delivery of vaccine in collaboration with us and then our priorities to distribution capabilities, FedEx and UPS.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051212", "text": "We will understand how the vaccine is being administered in arms.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051213", "text": "And we will continue to flow vaccine to support the use at the administration sites.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051214", "text": "Every day, every week that vaccine becomes available, allocations will be provided to the states and we will start and we will execute a predictable and consistent cadence of vaccine delivery.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051215", "text": "In fact, we have made significant investments in our facilities in Asheville, North Carolina, Marietta, Ohio, adding American jobs, millions and millions of dollars of investment to be ready for this day.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051216", "text": "I think the point about we're building on a foundation, we're the beneficiaries of investment in innovation that's taken place for many decades with the best transport and package delivery companies in the world.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051217", "text": "So just trust that we have the infrastructure and we are here and we will support this process going forward.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000051218", "text": "With the approval of first coronavirus vaccine, we believe it is likely within days.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051219", "text": "Those that'll have opportunities in this initial phase to take the vaccine can be confident that the approval is ensured that this vaccine is not just effective, but is safe.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051220", "text": "To protect our country and our agents during the pandemic, my administration took immediate action to ensure the safe and rapid return of all illegal aliens.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051221", "text": "So they made sure our democracy had the tool of impeachment to stop that kind of abuse of power.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000051222", "text": "While ignoring a conflict of interest is not a crime, it is surely very wrong.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051223", "text": "The President delayed funds for an American ally at war with Russian invaders.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051224", "text": "The principle reason our constitution created a United States Senate is so that one body of Congress can pause and resist the excesses of the executive or popular passions that can run through the House of Representatives like a freight train.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051225", "text": "And who can trust our democracy anyway, they say.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000051226", "text": "All these things, Mr. President, all these things, a toxic temptation to stop debating policy within our great American governing traditions, and instead declare a war on the traditions themselves.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051227", "text": "If the founders believe that, even when a president is guilty of an impeachable offense, that the next election should decide his fate, they never would have included an impeachment clause in the constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051228", "text": "We were beating them on trade, we were making progress like nobody's ever made progress.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051229", "text": "Well, we sold them weapons when they were fighting Russia too.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051230", "text": "And now because of the China virus, we're supposed to stay home, send millions of ballots all over the country, millions and millions.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051231", "text": "We made a trade deal with China, and it was a great deal, but it means much less to me now than it did then, because I'm not happy with what they've done to the world.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051232", "text": "Just recently, Soleimani led the brutal repression of protesters in Iran, where more than a thousand innocent civilians were tortured and killed by their own government.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051233", "text": "Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism, and their pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051234", "text": "These powerful sanctions will remain until Iran changes it's behavior.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051235", "text": "Today, I am going to ask NATO to become much more involved in the Middle East process.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000051236", "text": "The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration at a cost of two point $5 trillion.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051237", "text": "Finally, to the people and leaders of Iran, we want you to have a future and a great future, one that you deserve.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051238", "text": "The Democrat party's war on cops is putting the lives of innocent police officers in danger, but my father had great respect, always had great respect for law enforcement, for the police.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051239", "text": "And by the way, in terms of the whole notion of a vaccine, we're for a vaccine, but I don't trust him at all.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051240", "text": "President, you said, I don't think the science knows.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000051241", "text": "And we will begin with the fight against the coronavirus.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051242", "text": "He was told this was a serious virus that spread in the air, and it was much worse, much worse, than the flu.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051243", "text": "Just last night, top intelligence officials confirmed again that both Russia and Iran are working to influence this election.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051244", "text": "Joe got $3.5 million from Russia and it came through Putin, because he was very friendly with the former mayor of Moscow and it was the mayor of Moscow's wife.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051245", "text": "I prepaid my tax, over the last number of years, tens of millions of dollars, I prepaid, because at some point, they think it's an estimate.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000051246", "text": "They think I may have to pay tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000051247", "text": "What I'd make China do is play by the international rules, not like he has done.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051248", "text": "He has caused the deficit of the China to go up, not down, with China, up, not down.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051249", "text": "Number two, we're in a situation where China would have to play by the rules internationally as well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051250", "text": "He indicated we will be in a war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051251", "text": "Look, instead of being in a war where millions of people, Seoul is 25 miles away, millions and millions, 32 million people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051252", "text": "We don't have a war and I have a good relationship.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051253", "text": "One of the issues that's most important to them is healthcare, as you both know.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051254", "text": "I think healthcare is not a privilege, it's a right.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051255", "text": "President, your administration separated children from their parents at the border, at least 4, 000 kids.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051256", "text": "They separated them at the border to make it a disincentive to come to begin with.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051257", "text": "So they don't leak as much energy saving hundreds of millions of barrels of oil in the process and creating significant number of jobs.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051258", "text": "Beijing Biden is so weak on China that the intelligence community recently assessed that the Chinese Communist Party favors Biden.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051259", "text": "Guys, I'm sure he's making billions in China right now.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051260", "text": "The vaccine itself, I mean it could come out in October, but whether it's October, November, December, it's going to come out very soon.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051261", "text": "That's causing much more damage than the virus itself.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051262", "text": "There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051263", "text": "Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, your administration had already put a major focus on keeping our older Americans healthy and safe, and that focus has continued during the current pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051264", "text": "We're supporting our police, we're rebuilding our military, we're defeating radical Islamic terrorists like never before.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051265", "text": "With last week's vote, the far left has declared war on American democracy itself.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051266", "text": "We ended the war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051267", "text": "And we ended the war on beautiful clean coal.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051268", "text": "Past administrations did nothing as China looted our factories, and stole up to $500 billion of American dollars.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051269", "text": "China wants to make a deal so badly.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051270", "text": "They deployed our military to protect immensely wealthy nations, subsidizing their welfare states with your money.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051271", "text": "Then they demanded that America accept unlimited migration from those terror afflicted regions.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000051272", "text": "They want to give illegal aliens free healthcare, free education, more advantages than our own citizens have and more benefits than our own military gets.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051273", "text": "The Democrat's planned government takeover of healthcare would obliterate Medicare.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000051274", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion, ripping babies straight from their mother's womb right up until the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051275", "text": "We support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051276", "text": "In terms of being a pediatrician, I just think the science is so clear that the risk of death or hospitalization for children with this virus is so, so low.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000051277", "text": "And to deny a child that kind of education, you're robbing them of a lifetime, not just of earnings, a lifetime of who they are as human beings.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051278", "text": "Under my leadership we'll produce a vaccine in record time.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051279", "text": "China is purchasing more corn than they've ever done, record purchase of corn and soybeans, beef because they know I'm not happy with them.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051280", "text": "China is treated as a developing nation, developing nation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051281", "text": "I made a great trade deal with China, great, and they're buying.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051282", "text": "But right after that I signed an order saying you go to prison for 10 years.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000051283", "text": "But we're standing up for the defense of our constitution, for our freedom, and democracy itself.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051284", "text": "We've ended the war on American energy, lowering utility bills, reducing prices at the pump, reducing your prices.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051285", "text": "Probably the biggest agreement of any kind ever signed with China that will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property and boost American exports by a lot.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051286", "text": "We've done more to secure the border than any administration in history.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051287", "text": "I think he might've even gone to jail for a period of time for doing something that was really very understandable.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000051288", "text": "We're going to make healthcare a big part of this campaign.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051289", "text": "I have to say also that as Colombian, I am American Columbian citizen, I was deputy secretary of energy in Colombia, and I had the privilege to work directly with the president , that he's unfairly under house arrest.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051290", "text": "One young woman who I think is there, one young woman is smiling, Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000051291", "text": "Under my administration we achieved the most secure border in American history.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051292", "text": "I think it's a sickness, actually.", "issue": "sickness"}
{"id": "0000051293", "text": "The domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring our constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, with their allies in the Congress of the United States.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051294", "text": "I think we're going to have a vaccine very soon.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051295", "text": "There was also a study out of China, , that came out today but didn't find a statistical significance with the treatment.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051296", "text": "Do you think that China has.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051297", "text": "So Russia, the mayor of Moscow's wife, who's a very wealthy man, she's a very wealthy woman, retired, gave him three and a half million dollars.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000051298", "text": "He has even pledged free healthcare for illegal aliens, putting you in jeopardy because the country doesn't have the money.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051299", "text": "We invested $2.5 trillion in the U.S. military, and maybe almost as important, defense spending in North Carolina, as you know very well.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051300", "text": "Came from China and we did a hell of a job and those farmers are all happy today, but they were targeted by China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051301", "text": "To defend our constitution from this badness, I proudly nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, to the united states Supreme court.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051302", "text": "You will have a depression the likes of which this country has never seen before if these crazy rules get in with a Green New Deal.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000051303", "text": "But the vaccine is going to make it go quicker.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051304", "text": "By the way, my first phone call, if we win, will be from the head of Iran saying, Let's make a deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051305", "text": "We've taken historic action to fight the opioid epidemic, what a problem, and just today it was just announced before I came in, that drug overdose deaths...", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000051306", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up until the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051307", "text": "Because together, we will make America wealthy again, of course, we did just hit the highest price in the history of the market.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000051308", "text": "He voted for the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051309", "text": "What's happened to New York is so sad with the crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051310", "text": "Biden also pledged to eliminate our tariffs on China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051311", "text": "China was supposed to overtake us 10 years ago.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051312", "text": "After the virus hit, we recovered faster than any major nation in the world.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051313", "text": "A big vet, he headed up some groups, and he was telling me how badly the vets were treated.", "issue": "vet"}
{"id": "0000051314", "text": "And by the way, the first call I get if we win, will be from the leaders of Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051315", "text": "One of the reasons UK basically has been, it's got the border, it's got very strong borders and they're doing a very good job.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051316", "text": "Education is not a one size fit all representative, so career and technical centers in HBCUs and educating our young people for generations to come is so important to us.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000051317", "text": "From the beginning of the pandemic, we've always had the focus of making sure that our patients are cared for and our staff were cared for.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051318", "text": "One of the things to his point is that the pandemic has certainly just brought to light some of the disparities that have already existed.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051319", "text": "But the disease itself, was it a rough bout or was it made much easier", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000051320", "text": "So when you look at Spain and Italy, our attack rates to this virus are identical to other countries that have experienced the type of epidemic that we have experienced.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051321", "text": "And so when you look at Spain and Italy, our attack rates to this virus are identical to other countries that have experienced the type of epidemic that we have experienced.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051322", "text": "So we're doing 14, Germany's doing three, South Korea's doing three, and I think they're number two and three.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051323", "text": "Their GDP is down 27% because of the sanctions and all of the other things and I don't want that to happen.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000051324", "text": "So this is critical infrastructure, it's an essential workforce, and the team and the effort and the executive order, I think, has really maybe prevented what could have been a really serious situation.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000051325", "text": "I view the invisible enemy as a war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051326", "text": "As you know, in Syria, we're down to almost nothing, except we kept the oil, but we'll work out some kind of a deal with the Kurds on that.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051327", "text": "So as a result of the outrageous attacks on law enforcement, violent crime has surged in certain Democrat run cities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051328", "text": "China must be very happy about it because they hit us with a virus and now they screw up an election like you will never see.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051329", "text": "We are battling a global pandemic that has affected all of us.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051330", "text": "Tens of thousands of service members and National Guardsmen are on the front lines of our war against this terrible virus, caring for patients, delivering critical supplies, and working night and day to safeguard our citizens.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051331", "text": "We had just signed the deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051332", "text": "And this country, the deals we made, we did a deal with South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051333", "text": "We think we're going into a recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000051334", "text": "They were willing to lose their wealth.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000051335", "text": "You're declaring open war on American democracy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051336", "text": "Because it's known for major corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051337", "text": "I say defense is the most, the military is the most.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051338", "text": "But once you're beyond the military, I mean to me defense is the most important.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051339", "text": "We've ended the war on American energy, and the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas on planet earth.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051340", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb, right up until the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051341", "text": "We support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051342", "text": "The inner cities of our country have been run by the democratic party for more than 50 years, their policies have produced only poverty, joblessness, failing schools, and broken homes.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000051343", "text": "They fought and died in every war since the revolution, they've lifted up the conscience of our nation in the long march towards civil rights.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051344", "text": "Syria is in the midst of a disastrous civil war and a refugee crisis now threatens Europe and the United States, where we're taking in thousands and thousands and thousands of people.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051345", "text": "If you're ready to vote for honest government and the honest government that you deserve, a Trump administration will end the corruption and restore integrity to government service.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051346", "text": "So to have it free, we have to be at war with Israel and he said it very, very powerfully.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051347", "text": "In fact, it's been in this false war that Israel really the enemies of peace have used it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051348", "text": "Now Biden is pledging to give federal healthcare to illegal aliens, which is decimating.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051349", "text": "He asked Russia to please get her emails.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051350", "text": "To fight the China virus, we launched the largest national mobilization since World War II.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051351", "text": "On November 3rd, Pennsylvania will decide whether we end the pandemic, defeat the virus and return to record prosperity.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051352", "text": "The Democrat party's war on cops is putting our police officers at risk.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051353", "text": "To protect American workers during the pandemic, I suspended the entry of foreign workers who threatened U.S. jobs, and we will always care for our citizens first.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051354", "text": "Biden's pledge to terminate these protections and give away your jobs, under my administration, we've achieved the most secure border in U.S. history.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051355", "text": "In fact, as I stand before you today, the risk of contracting the coronavirus to the American public remains low, and the risk of serious disease among the American public also remains low.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051356", "text": "First of all, we couldn't be more pleased that coming into the situation with the coronavirus, the U S has the most resilient economy in the world.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051357", "text": "The president's decision to suspend all travel from China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051358", "text": "We're setting records on the southern border in terms of allowing the people that are supposed to be here in but not allowing others in.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051359", "text": "In fact, one of whom is the highest ranking combat veteran ever to serve in the Congress of the United States.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000051360", "text": "And when it comes to trade, so important to what we make and what we grow.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051361", "text": "We ended the war on coal.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051362", "text": "This president signed the largest investment in our national defense since the days of Ronald Reagan.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051363", "text": "And for our national defense to support our veterans for peace through strength, it's just one more reason why we need a combat veteran in the United States Senate.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000051364", "text": "He said closing off travel during a global pandemic would actually make things worse.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051365", "text": "All the corruption and they refuse to even talk about it.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051366", "text": "You know, the greatest investors don't make that deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051367", "text": "But the vaccine will make it go a lot quicker.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051368", "text": "Joe Biden is promising to delay the vaccine and turn America into a prison state.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051369", "text": "We've never allowed any crisis from the civil war straight through to the pandemic of '17 all the way around we have never, never let our democracy take second fiddle.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051370", "text": "Tomorrow we'll also be signing our phase one trade deal with China, massively boosting exports of products made and produced right here in the great state of Wisconsin.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051371", "text": "But at this very moment, the good people of Iran are taking to the streets in numbers like nobody's seen before, and they're really protesting the repressive regime and demanding a better future.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051372", "text": "And you know, Iran's caused us problems for 40 years.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051373", "text": "But I've warned the Ayatollah and the government of Iran that they must not harm, hurt, or kill any protesters.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051374", "text": "I told Turkey, you got to defend your own border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051375", "text": "We're not going to defend your border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051376", "text": "We ended the war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051377", "text": "But taking their cues from socialist Bernie Sanders, AOC, all these people, liberal lawmakers are pushing a government takeover of healthcare that would strip 180 million Americans of their private health insurance.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000051378", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb the moment of.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051379", "text": "As we continue rebuilding our military, workers are building brand new Humvee replacements ... you know about that ... in Oshkosh and magnificent new little old combat ships in Marinette.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051380", "text": "I thought we was going to war with Kim Jong-un.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051381", "text": "Trump is going to be a war at within the first week after he wins.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051382", "text": "South Korea did very well with that deal, but I changed that deal a lot.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051383", "text": "And this president promised to secure our border, we made historic investments in border security.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051384", "text": "And while you're bringing all that energy and enthusiasm, bring your faith too.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051385", "text": "So the president of Ukraine reiterated today at a major news conference, on other subjects, that he was under absolutely no pressure.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051386", "text": "Got the approval from Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051387", "text": "My administration is taking historic action to secure the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051388", "text": "We were supposed to be in Syria for 30 days.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051389", "text": "We were supposed to be in Afghanistan for a short period of time.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051390", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb, right up to the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051391", "text": "They deployed our military to protect ... think of this ... immensely wealthy nations, subsidizing their welfare states with your money.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051392", "text": "Then they demanded that American citizens accept unlimited migration from those terror-afflicted nations and regions.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000051393", "text": "To protect our communities, my administration restricted migration from terror-prone nations and implemented the toughest ever vetting procedures.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000051394", "text": "They want open borders, which mean crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051395", "text": "Virtually every Democrat also now supports late-term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up until the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051396", "text": "Instead of standing up for America, Joe Biden and the Democrats, they condemn America and war is always waged on our great law enforcement.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051397", "text": "She accused him of MeToo, she accused him of everything.", "issue": "MeToo"}
{"id": "0000051398", "text": "The Democrat party's war on cops has already led to surging homicides in Democrat controlled cities.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051399", "text": "Biden has vowed to remove those tariffs and allow China to resume its pillaging.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051400", "text": "He voted for the Iraq War, he supported the defense sequester that gutted our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051401", "text": "And, you remember with me, they thought because of my personality, they said, He'll be in war the first week.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051402", "text": "Remember, we were going to be in war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051403", "text": "Unemployment in Texas is currently at the lowest rate ever recorded in the history of our country, and unemployment in the United States has just reached the lowest level in over 51 years and very soon we think that will be broken to be a historic number.", "issue": "Unemployment"}
{"id": "0000051404", "text": "And then made the deal with China, $50 billion worth of purchases for the farmer.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051405", "text": "We have successfully renegotiated new trade deals with South Korea and Japan, who were really ripping us.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051406", "text": "My administration is also reshaping our nation's approach to mental illness.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000051407", "text": "And at the end of last year, a record 39 states had unemployment below 4%.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000051408", "text": "President, what do you feel like your infrastructure, you got a budget coming out, I think, today.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000051409", "text": "The Republicans will approve a stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000051410", "text": "Nancy Pelosi, we are ready to sign and pass stimulus, but she's got to approve it.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000051411", "text": "And especially during the pandemic, I think even you, Savannah, will be very impressed with what we've done.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051412", "text": "But as far as what we're doing with the new virus, I think that we're doing a great job.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051413", "text": "We discussed it at great length, terrorism, and I think we have some very good ideas.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000051414", "text": "He's very, very struggling against terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000051415", "text": "I made a deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051416", "text": "I said, Get me the woman from Michigan to head up the RNC!", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000051417", "text": "We've ended the war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051418", "text": "But our trade agreement with China will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property, and substantially boost exports of American made goods.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051419", "text": "And we have done more to secure the border of our country than any administration in history.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051420", "text": "The Democrat party wants to run your healthcare, but they can't even run a caucus in Iowa.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051421", "text": "We are making healthcare better and much, much cheaper.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051422", "text": "The reason they didn't fight back too much, they don't want to lose their pension.", "issue": "pension"}
{"id": "0000051423", "text": "They want to give illegal aliens government healthcare and taxpayer funded lawyers.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051424", "text": "We are doing very well with China despite the fact that they want to have you believe in the contrary.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051425", "text": "You have the best unemployment, you have the most successful state in the history of your state, and in the history of our country.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000051426", "text": "We ended the last administration's cruel war on American energy and we are delivering a policy of American energy independence like you've never seen before.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051427", "text": "We are fighting to reduce violent crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051428", "text": "One of the most powerful promises I made to the people of this state was to confront the opioid and drug epidemic.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000051429", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mothers womb.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051430", "text": "Weeks ago we also signed a fantastic new trade agreement with China that will boost New Jersey exports and defend New Jersey jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051431", "text": "After years of devastating defense cuts we have fully rebuilt the United States military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051432", "text": "Left-wing lawmakers are pushing a government takeover of health care that would strip 180 million Americans of their private health care plans, which many people like.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000051433", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051434", "text": "What you see is so sad with the homeless and the way they don't take care of the homeless.", "issue": "homeless"}
{"id": "0000051435", "text": "As we rebuild our military, we have authorized over $160 million to support our warriors at a place called, huh, McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051436", "text": "Finding new cures for childhood cancer and ending the AIDS epidemic, can you believe this, in America in 10 years or less.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000051437", "text": "Crucially for your state, we have ended the last administration's war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051438", "text": "Past leaders invited China to freely loot and pillage the United States economy.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051439", "text": "Every major Democrat running for president supports a massive government takeover of healthcare that would destroyed Medicare as we know it today.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000051440", "text": "Unfortunately, the shutdowns caused by the China virus have led to a recent rise in overdose deaths, still below the level that they were at, but nevertheless went up a little bit.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051441", "text": "In other words after arresting illegal aliens for crimes, the police are ordered to release those criminals back onto the streets to continue their crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051442", "text": "If we come up with a vaccine, I think they probably will.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051443", "text": "The President promised to rebuild our military, support all the men and women like those who serve at Fort Bragg with such distinction.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051444", "text": "We're rebuilding our military, defending our sovereignty and reclaiming our dignity as a nation.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051445", "text": "We ended the last administrations cruel war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051446", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051447", "text": "What you've done in Iran is more important than both of them.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051448", "text": "After years and years of devastating defense cuts, we have fully rebuilt the United States military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051449", "text": "By subsidizing Iran's malign conduct, the last administration was leading the world down the path of war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051450", "text": "We ended the last administration's war on American energy and we ended the war on clean, beautiful coal.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051451", "text": "China is deciding not to buy anymore of this.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051452", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb, right up until the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051453", "text": "The previous administration tried to shut down American energy and close up, totally, close it up.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051454", "text": "We've ended the war on American energy and we're putting our coal miners back to work and our steelworkers back to work, and our auto companies back to work.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051455", "text": "Liberal politicians want to eliminate private healthcare and force everyone onto the government plan.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051456", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051457", "text": "And then you'll have like a governor of Virginia, it's not only late term abortion, it's killing the baby after the baby is born.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051458", "text": "We support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051459", "text": "The audio also includes Trump asking how long Ukraine would last in a fight with Russia without US aide.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051460", "text": "Everyone says China doesn't import a lot of steel.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051461", "text": "How we ended up in a Korean war, fighting a Korean war to keep these two places from.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051462", "text": "We're supposed to be fighting Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051463", "text": "They're supporting Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051464", "text": "The head guy in Ukraine, and some of the Rabbis in Israel- They want everybody- ... in the Hebrew religion, they're waiting for the Messiah to come.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051465", "text": "It's the largest investment in the history of Pennsylvania, in the history of our country, the money that's being invested in your state right now.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051466", "text": "But on my first day in office, I ended the war on American energy, and that's common sense, I think.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051467", "text": "Two more companies have recently proposed a $10 billion investment in the great state of Ohio, incredible state.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051468", "text": "They watch what happened in Afghanistan, and they think we're weak and stupid.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051469", "text": "Afghanistan was the single most embarrassing event in my opinion that's ever happened to our country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051470", "text": "We will hold China accountable for unleashing the virus and for the unfathomable suffering they have caused and charge them trillions of dollars in reparations.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051471", "text": "We will defend our constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051472", "text": "We will end Joe Biden's war on American energy and ensure that the United States remains the dominant energy superpower on earth.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051473", "text": "So many of our state and local offices have been overtaken by corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051474", "text": "We believe in fair trade for the American worker.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051475", "text": "We're taking in billions and billions of dollars from China in tariffs and what was happening, our farmers with the trade deal that I made with China were doing phenomenal.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051476", "text": "We believe in patriotic education for our children.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051477", "text": "We've ended the war on American energy, lowering utility bills, reducing prices at the pump, and eliminating our reliance on hostile foreign suppliers.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051478", "text": "Last month, we signed a groundbreaking trade agreement with China that will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property, and boost American exports.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051479", "text": "We've done more to secure the border than any administration in history.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051480", "text": "I stood up to China like no other administration in history.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051481", "text": "Yet liberal lawmakers and Democrat politicians condemned this policy to left rejected science in favor of their fanatical devotion to open borders.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000051482", "text": "Think of that, tougher than Afghanistan, all run by Democrats while their movement is based on hate.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051483", "text": "Because nobody has been tougher on trade or making our country great again.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051484", "text": "As the radical left inflict violence on American streets, they're also waging war on timeless American values like freedom of speech, which is what we're just talking about.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051485", "text": "To protect our democracy I signed an executive order to remove legal protections for social media companies that unjustly censor American citizens.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000051486", "text": "It's like we're talking about a war, which it is a war in a certain sense, and we're going to end it fast, so be.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051487", "text": "They're testing for coronavirus, defending our city.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051488", "text": "In just three and a half years we've secured America's borders, which makes them very unhappy, rebuilt the awesome power of the US military, we built the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051489", "text": "We saved 1.4 million jobs in Pennsylvania alone and to fight the China virus, it's the China virus, not the coronavirus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051490", "text": "To fight the China virus we launched the largest national mobilization since World War II.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051491", "text": "So we'll crush the virus and our opponents will, with him, they will crush America.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051492", "text": "The problem is when you promise free education, free healthcare, all this up and free healthcare.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051493", "text": "During the pandemic, I've suspended the entry of foreign workers who threatened American jobs.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051494", "text": "Our nations have also collaborated on protecting our critical infrastructure and technology.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000051495", "text": "A very big part of our discussions today with Mr. President and our collaborators, were dedicated to the coronavirus, to what the situation looks like in Europe, and on the global stage as concerns the fight against the coronavirus, also in the United States.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051496", "text": "In recent days, I also talked to secretary general of NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000051497", "text": "Also about the second world war about who started the war, about the course of the war is incredibly important to us.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051498", "text": "So they're spending billions of dollars to buy Russian energy and then we're supposed to defend them from Russia.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051499", "text": "You know, the United States is a very, is the major participant in NATO.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000051500", "text": "In a great battle in 1920, we defeated the army Bolsheviks and we drove them back to the east.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000051501", "text": "In 2010, during a deployment in Afghanistan, his leg was severely wounded by an enemy grenade.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051502", "text": "Each of us was elected on the pledge to fight corruption, return power to the people, and put the interest of our countries first.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051503", "text": "Our countries are linked by trade and travel, by history and culture, by faith and family.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051504", "text": "We made a big one with China too, but this is the largest trade deal ever made.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051505", "text": "We've also worked in the battle against the coronavirus together, saving countless, thousands of lives.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051506", "text": "So many things could have been different, but big tech happened to choose the wrong side and they banned the right side.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000051507", "text": "There's no war that we lost that many and for a long time and many people died, young people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051508", "text": "To battle the virus, my administration marshaled every resource at our nation's disposal, public, private, military, economic, scientific and industrial all at your disposal.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051509", "text": "This major investment will ensure that America continues to conduct more tests than any country on earth by far.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051510", "text": "The South China Morning Post, the Beijing newspaper, says that China would like to reopen negotiations on the trade deal to make the terms more favorable to them.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051511", "text": "Food is supposed to be fantastic.", "issue": "Food"}
{"id": "0000051512", "text": "My brother is a combat veteran and a paramedic in Tucson and my daughter has decided that she too is going to carry forward the family tradition of serving.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000051513", "text": "This pandemic has underscored the vital importance of reshoring our supply chains and constructing a powerful domestic manufacturing base.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051514", "text": "I think we'll have a vaccine before the end of the year, very substantially.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051515", "text": "So a capital gains tax is going to be a lot of people put to work and it would be a cut in the capital gains tax and also a cut in the middle income income tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000051516", "text": "We want to discuss, if we might, the China virus and the world continues its fight against this horrible plague.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051517", "text": "I have a question about the coronavirus, but I wanted to just ask you to be clear on the incident outside.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051518", "text": "China's treated much differently than we are.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051519", "text": "And I can tell you that China would not be happy at all.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051520", "text": "But because of the fake news, they seem to think Russia plays the best.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051521", "text": "I think it's a political crime of the century and they've been caught.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051522", "text": "They're ready to deliver a vaccine to Americans as soon as one is fully approved by the FDA.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051523", "text": "As we continue to confront the global pandemic, the United States economy is rebounding with strength like nobody thought possible.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051524", "text": "The police commissioner seems like a very good woman.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000051525", "text": "Far more important is who the virus is infecting.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051526", "text": "Are you going to take action against Iran on the basis of the US Intelligence request that they- We're going to see.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051527", "text": "And the shut down thing is causing tremendous depression for those places that are still shut down.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000051528", "text": "There's just a war on law enforcement in this country, and without law enforcement, we wouldn't have a country.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051529", "text": "The left's war on police, faith, history, and American values is tearing our country apart, which is what they want.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051530", "text": "I'll appoint more tough on crime prosecutors, supports different penalties and longer jail terms for rioters, and support effective policing methods that are proven to be great crime reducers.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051531", "text": "And the head person not controlled by government, but it's sort of, semi-public in a sense, gets paid the highest salary in the world of government.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000051532", "text": "The illness took a devastating toll on both states as you know.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000051533", "text": "In the midst of the China virus pandemic, we also keep fighting to end the opioid epidemic, and we've done very well.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000051534", "text": "I think that the last person Russia wants to see in office is Donald Trump, because nobody's been tougher on Russia than I have, ever.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051535", "text": "And I'll make the statement, if and when we win, we will make deals with Iran very quickly, we'll make deals with North Korea very quickly.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051536", "text": "If I didn't win the election in 2016, our country would now be, maybe it would be over by now, but in war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051537", "text": "So North Korea, whether you look at Iran, every one of them will make a deal with us very quickly.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051538", "text": "And we were having the best year we've ever had, with big tax cuts, with big regulation cuts, we've rebuilt our military, we became independent in terms of energy, we're the energy leader of the world.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051539", "text": "The orders extend unemployment & provide $400 benefits for Americans out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000051540", "text": "We're doing very well with the virus because all of those states that everybody thought would be in a bad position for a long time, they're all coming down.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051541", "text": "Okay, so this is for the authorization of other needs assistance program, major disasters declaration related to the coronavirus disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000051542", "text": "The authority invested in me, this is the payment relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051543", "text": "China has also unlawfully claimed territory in the Pacific Ocean, threatening freedom of navigation and international trade.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051544", "text": "The United States wants an open and constructive relationship with China, but achieving that relationship requires us to vigorously defend our national interests.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051545", "text": "This pandemic has underscored the crucial importance of building up America's economic independence, reassuring our critical supply chains and protecting America's scientific and technological advances.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051546", "text": "For years, the government of China has conducted elicit espionage to steal our industrial secrets of which there are many.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051547", "text": "China has replaced its promise formula of one country, two systems, with one country, one system.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051548", "text": "So Senator Chris Murphy literally threatened the President of Ukraine that if he doesn't do things right, they won't have Democrat support in Congress.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051549", "text": "That will make a tremendous difference at our southern border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051550", "text": "As Secretary Pompeo said on Iran, we had very good discussions with all of our allies about the sanctions program, which is the maximum pressure and unity on the sanctions program.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051551", "text": "Before we knew about the disease and had anything to fight the disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000051552", "text": "The outbreak was so rampant that the Obama administration told States to stop testing.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000051553", "text": "As soon as a vaccine is approved, the administration will deliver it to the American people immediately.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051554", "text": "I think we have a bigger problem with China than we have with Russia.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051555", "text": "I think China is a far bigger problem.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051556", "text": "In order to keep making progress against the virus, we ask all Americans to remain vigilant especially over Labor Day.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051557", "text": "And then we're supposed to protect Germany from Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051558", "text": "It's actually more stimulus than we're asking for in terms of pure stimulus, this would be pure stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000051559", "text": "They've done a big number on Russia, and were over there fighting ISIS but they're over there fighting ISIS too.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051560", "text": "The trade deal with China, just having to do with what we've done with the financial services, with banks, with the farmers has been incredible.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051561", "text": "If my opponent would have won, China would right now be the most powerful nation economically in the world, and right now they're not even close.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051562", "text": "One of our major challenges and the challenge facing NATO today is instability in the Mediterranean, North Africa areas, and much of the volatility in that region stems from the violence in Libya, which is very close to Italy's borders.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000051563", "text": "We talked about our relationships with China together with President Trump and through an open dialogue with China, we want to defend the world order based on clear rules with the UN at the center of the world order and an open and fair market.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051564", "text": "They fight and they fight long and they fight hard and they've been fighting Syria for a long time and on the border, that's the border with Syria.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051565", "text": "But it would be led by Syria and Syria doesn't want Turkey to take its land.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051566", "text": "We have a great modern military, but that doesn't mean we're going to waste it.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051567", "text": "The people of South Carolina don't want us to get into a war with Turkey, a NATO member, or with Syria.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051568", "text": "I'm not going to get involved in a war between Turkey and Syria, especially when, if you look at the Kurds ...", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051569", "text": "I mean, we're fighting a war for Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051570", "text": "We're fighting a war for Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051571", "text": "We were supposed to be in Syria for one month.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051572", "text": "And our position is what I mentioned earlier on Syria, on the fact that we condemn what Turkey decided to do in recent days with no possible ambiguity.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051573", "text": "We cannot lose a war of tariffs because the imbalance is so great between the United States, and in this case, the European Union, also true with China.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051574", "text": "But we have to be treated fairly on NATO and we have to be treated fairly on trade with the European Union.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000051575", "text": "Russia treated us great.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051576", "text": "We defend them and then they rip us off in trade, they're always asking for money.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051577", "text": "To defend our rights in our constitution, I nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051578", "text": "And I have to tell you this, he represented us great with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051579", "text": "As I mentioned, one of the things that was very important to me was to eliminate the very unfair estate tax or death tax on small businesses and farms.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000051580", "text": "They rip us on trade and there was supposed to protect them, the European Union.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051581", "text": "Such stupid decisions are being made, including the border, including Afghanistan.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051582", "text": "Unlike Chicago and these democrat run cities, we didn't lose one soldier in Afghanistan until this tragedy of the way they left.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051583", "text": "Although, I think the deal I made with China is even better, if you want to know the truth.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051584", "text": "China made the biggest deal after we waited and we had a year and a half negotiation.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051585", "text": "They declared war in American energy and now the middle class is being crushed by the highest gas and food prices in the history of our country.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051586", "text": "There's never been anything like the crime that we're witnessing in the Democrat run cities, while radical left judges persecute Republicans and whole political prisoners without trial.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051587", "text": "Now Biden is continuing a surrender parade, begging Iran to reenter the disastrous nuclear deal that I terminated very proudly and very powerfully.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051588", "text": "Had the election not been rigged, we would've had a deal with Iran within one week from the election.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051589", "text": "And then they say Trump treated Russia so nicely.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051590", "text": "The Republican Congress will end the woke war on women and children.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051591", "text": "These rogue Democrat prosecutors should stop the crime and the bloodshed that is raging uncontrollably in Democrat run cities and states.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051592", "text": "Right now I'm fighting to eradicate the virus, rebuild the economy and save our country from the radical left.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051593", "text": "To defend our constitution from this madness, I proudly nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the United States Supreme Court and to the court.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051594", "text": "To fight the China virus, we launched the largest mobilization since World War II.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051595", "text": "Biden Harris and the Democrat party declared war on our police.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051596", "text": "It's really what made China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051597", "text": "When the China virus arrived, we moved heaven and earth to fight the disease.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051598", "text": "In fact, Sleepy Joe said, we made it good deal with China, unfortunately the ink wasn't dry before the plague came in.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051599", "text": "The first call I get when we win will be from the head of Iran, let's make a deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051600", "text": "Together with the incredible people of Pennsylvania, we have made America powerful again, our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051601", "text": "They're totally joined with the big tech.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000051602", "text": "Honestly, I don't think they want energy period, close down every factory.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051603", "text": "Our military was totally depleted from years of endless wars that just kept going on and on.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051604", "text": "Biden will plunge us into one ridiculous foreign war after another.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051605", "text": "They'll resume the war on Christians and attack Catholic organizations like Little Sisters of the Poor.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051606", "text": "He will support the socialist takeover of American healthcare, which will lead to rationing poverty and death.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000051607", "text": "You didn't cause this problem, this problem was caused by China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051608", "text": "We've been in Afghanistan for 19 years, I think that's enough.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051609", "text": "I think I'm the only president in many, many decades that didn't get into a war, right.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051610", "text": "He comes out and he said, I think the laptop was developed by Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051611", "text": "The Biden Harris plan would outlaw American energy, would unleash economic misery for Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and every other state in America.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051612", "text": "This is some serious energy and a little bit of cold, but you all warm up the room.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051613", "text": "I think he used COVID, there's about 29 different names we can use, the China plague.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051614", "text": "I think he used COVID, He tested for COVID, and I go, Wow, that's bad, that's not good.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051615", "text": "Biden's energy ban will send every state into crushing poverty from North Carolina to Michigan, to Pennsylvania.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000051616", "text": "Big tech refuses to put anything in.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000051617", "text": "Joe Biden is promising to delay the vaccine and turn America into a prison state.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051618", "text": "And instead of endless war in the Middle East we're forging peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051619", "text": "President Trump signed the largest investment in our national defense since the days of Ronald Reagan.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051620", "text": "We signed a great trade deal with China, but it doesn't mean so ...", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051621", "text": "And then the last one is he asked China for $10 million here.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051622", "text": "Joe Biden is promising to delay the vaccine and turn America into a prison state.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051623", "text": "We've never allowed any crisis from the civil war straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way round 16, we have never, never let our democracy second fiddle.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000051624", "text": "By the way, if you see any crime, because it we're supposed to ... we have a crime because it's a lot of corruption there, Please report it to the Attorney General of the United States.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051625", "text": "The vaccine, by the way, with or without the vaccine, we're rounding the turn, but the vaccine makes it go faster.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051626", "text": "Those steps allowed China to take advantage of the United States by using our own open trade deals against us.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051627", "text": "I believe that Russia caused his problem.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051628", "text": "We invested $2.5 trillion in the US military, including nearly $6 billion to save the historic shipyard, Marinette Marine, And even more money for combat vehicle manufacturing in Oshkosh.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051629", "text": "I think I'll go to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051630", "text": "And big tech will refuse to put it on and then they'll terminate the New York Post if they put it up, New York Post", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000051631", "text": "Joe Biden is promising to delay the vaccine and turn America into a prison state while letting rioters roam fee.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051632", "text": "It is in our self interest that China continue to prosper.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051633", "text": "I believe in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000051634", "text": "I believe in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000051635", "text": "You're going to be attacked by Russia or somebody, we're supposed to protect you.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051636", "text": "His running mate sponsored the socialist takeover of healthcare.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000051637", "text": "Biden's energy ban will send every state into crushing poverty from Wisconsin to Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000051638", "text": "But they're waging war on our police.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051639", "text": "And because of the microphone, we are giving you back half of your admission price.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000051640", "text": "You know, we made a great trade deal with China as you know very well.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051641", "text": "Remember, we're going to be in a war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051642", "text": "And together, with the incredible people of Michigan, we have made America powerful again, our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051643", "text": "You know, I signed a great trade deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051644", "text": "He asked China to pay him $10 million a year because he wants to do introductions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051645", "text": "The corruption of politicians like Biden and it is corruption, is exactly why I ran for president.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051646", "text": "Those steps allowed China to take advantage of the United States by using our own open trade deals against us.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051647", "text": "But the vaccine is going to make it quicker.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051648", "text": "When the China virus arrived, we moved heaven and earth to fight the disease.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051649", "text": "That was a very hostile attack by a woman that do nothing.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000051650", "text": "Our opponents do not believe in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000051651", "text": "The so-called experts advising Joe Biden have called for slowing down the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051652", "text": "It's the state where the American constitution was signed.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051653", "text": "The corrupt Washington class launched an economic war against this state.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051654", "text": "And worst of all, the suppressed media and big tech refuses to cover the crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051655", "text": "My plan will destroy the virus and make America greater than it's ever been.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051656", "text": "And I will always defend and promote Pennsylvania energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051657", "text": "Towns will be ordered to abolish zoning for single family housing, because single family homes, needless to say are racist.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000051658", "text": "My plan will crush the virus and you will see economic benefits like we've never seen in our country before.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051659", "text": "When the China plague arrived, we moved heaven and earth to fight the disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000051660", "text": "And, by the way, making our military stronger by far than ever before.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051661", "text": "I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize depression.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000051662", "text": "We signed a great trade deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051663", "text": "This corruption is exactly why I decided to run for President in the first place, one of the reasons.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051664", "text": "We're going to go into war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051665", "text": "They refuse to talk about the corruption in Biden's family.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051666", "text": "We were treated horribly on trade and we were treated horribly on the military.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051667", "text": "First of all, the first call I'm going to get are the people, the leaders in Iran, let's make a deal.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051668", "text": "We will finish and win the war against MS-13 killers.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051669", "text": "China was dumping steel all over the place.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051670", "text": "It was the other side that dealt with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051671", "text": "But the big one was a request to China to pay them $10 million a year for recommendation services, for services.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051672", "text": "Things change I think with big tech.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000051673", "text": "Healthcare for every citizen remains a priority for him.", "issue": "Healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051674", "text": "In early 2020, our nation began feeling the effects of a global pandemic, a virus that invaded our nation.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051675", "text": "If you are not supporting the safe production of a vaccine, you're not supporting the health and safety of the American people.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051676", "text": "I think Russia's looking at us, they're saying, Those people are stone cold crazy.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051677", "text": "We made a great deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051678", "text": "Iran will make another crazy deal where they give them 150 billion or 1.8 billion in cash.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051679", "text": "He then goes to Russia, he got three and a half million from the mayor of Moscow's wife, three and a half million dollars.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051680", "text": "And then the guy has the deal in China where he wants to get $10 million a year, 10 million a year for introductory purposes.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051681", "text": "I'd signed a great trade deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051682", "text": "And when the virus hit, we experienced the smallest contraction, think of that, the smallest of any major country and the fastest recovery of any country in the world.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051683", "text": "Support our great police, support our military, defend our borders, protect the second amendment, which is under siege.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051684", "text": "I think it's depression.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000051685", "text": "I will eradicate the virus and make the economy better than it's ever been.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051686", "text": "We have great energy and we believe in all forms of energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051687", "text": "Biden has not only declared war on police.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051688", "text": "So like I said, he declared war on the cops, and it's not working out too well.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051689", "text": "But sleepy Joe declared war on American workers and Biden spent the last 47 years outsourcing your jobs.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051690", "text": "They're moving to Mexico, they're making it in China, they're doing all these things.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051691", "text": "These people don't believe in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000051692", "text": "We will crush the virus and make our success, make this country more successful than it's ever been.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051693", "text": "When the China plague arrived we moved heaven and earth to fight the disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000051694", "text": "Father becomes vice-president, he becomes in charge of Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051695", "text": "We have a great young Congress woman, hopefully running in Baltimore.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000051696", "text": "We've rebuilt our military, we've cut more regulation than any other administration by a factor of a lot.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051697", "text": "The Democrat party's war on cops is driving police officers to leave their jobs in record numbers.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051698", "text": "Last year, in just four Democrat-run cities, over 1000 African-Americans were murdered as a result of violent crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051699", "text": "But now what he's doing on, he's the chairman of Homeland security, what he's doing on corruption is unbelievable.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051700", "text": "You'll have a depression the likes of which we've never seen, with the possible exception of 1929, because I don't think it gets much worse than that.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000051701", "text": "My plan will crush the virus and will make Wisconsin greater than ever before.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051702", "text": "If and when we win, if we win, the first call I'm going to get is from the head of Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051703", "text": "Under my leadership prosperity will surge, patriotism will soar, optimism will boom, the pandemic will soon end.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051704", "text": "They are willing to demean a vaccine for political purposes.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051705", "text": "After the virus left China, we experienced the smallest contraction of any major Western country and the fastest recovery by far of any country.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051706", "text": "He will wage war on Catholic organizations, ban charter schools, bankrupt Catholic schools.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051707", "text": "Fund extreme late-term abortion, and let socialists run wild in our country.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051708", "text": "I feel so sad with New York, crime is up 200, 250%, Cuomo.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051709", "text": "The Democrat party's war on cops is inciting riots and putting police officers and American families in very grave danger.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051710", "text": "After the virus left China, we experienced the smallest contraction of any major Western country and the fastest recovery anywhere in the world, from an economy standpoint.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051711", "text": "He will wage war on Catholic organizations, band charter schools, fund extreme late-term abortion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051712", "text": "Well, I don't think science knows, actually.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000051713", "text": "Well, so we have the leader on charges of terrorism.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000051714", "text": "So if you look at every single state that had an outbreak, their testing is greater than anywhere in the world.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000051715", "text": "But we've been really working with states to do sentinel surveillance and also to reach out to our Native American populations as well as our inner city.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000051716", "text": "He went where the virus could cause the most damage to human beings.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051717", "text": "But in Florida we had such an uneven outbreak, we were doing contact tracing throughout this whole time in parts of the state that the outbreak wasn't as severe.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000051718", "text": "If you look at Florida's outbreak, just think of all the people that were in Florida.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000051719", "text": "But clearly financially it's an issue for Florida because anytime people come, they end up paying tax on that.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000051720", "text": "Our investment will make it possible for the vaccine to be provided by Pfizer free of charge.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051721", "text": "He doesn't trust where the vaccine's coming from.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051722", "text": "And as of the month of February or March, if we have more vaccines approved such as the Live-Vector Vaccine, we may be able to immunize a larger number of Americans on an ongoing basis per month.", "issue": "Vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051723", "text": "Hong Kong will now be treated the same as Mainland China, no special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051724", "text": "Now, the Democrat party is calling for defunding of our military, think of that.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051725", "text": "By contrast, my administration acted very early to ban travel from China, from Europe, saving all of these lives, incredible.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051726", "text": "Joe Biden didn't just side with China on the virus, he did.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051727", "text": "He described the rise of China as a very positive development.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051728", "text": "And he was unemployed as you know, he was unfortunately forced to leave the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051729", "text": "Indeed Biden expressed more fawning praise about China on an ordinary day than about America.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051730", "text": "They want government healthcare for all illegal aliens.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051731", "text": "We made a very fair deal on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051732", "text": "Could have been stopped, it could have been stopped in China, but they decided not to do that.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051733", "text": "Thanks to cooperation with state and local partners we're making progress against the virus, we are and towards a safe reopening.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051734", "text": "Up to 50% of people who have COVID are asymptomatic, so thanks to the hard work of so many healthcare, and public health professionals, and the commitment of the American people.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051735", "text": "Education and workforce development is what leads to real independence for people, and the council supports empowering disadvantaged students with dual enrollment opportunities, the creation of new short term education and career pathways, and increase access to capital for our nations use.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000051736", "text": "And I think the infrastructure that you presented today is going to help a lot of people.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000051737", "text": "American saw historic low unemployment for every community across America under your leadership, including Hispanic and Black Americans, and with God's help and with your leadership we know that the best is yet to come.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000051738", "text": "Migration made us not only fewer, but older.", "issue": "Migration"}
{"id": "0000051739", "text": "President Trump, this dictatorship threaten peace and security of the continent.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000051740", "text": "We've been very tough on Russia with the sanctions and so many other things, including letting people know that we're not so happy about what's going on with NATO and the oil.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051741", "text": "We're doing a immigration plan and we're doing another one that's very important are the drugs, prescription drug prices.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000051742", "text": "I think people realized now in this pandemic, that borders matter.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051743", "text": "You took decisive action, and you held China accountable.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051744", "text": "Our legacy in fighting infectious disease goes back to 1901 with Emil von Behring, who was the first Nobel prize winner in medicine. Who actually utilized plasma as a means to fighting off diptheria.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000051745", "text": "Really important antibodies to fight off this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000051746", "text": "The radical politicians are waging war on innocent Americans.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051747", "text": "They've done a great job with COVID as you know, in the state of Oklahoma.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051748", "text": "As a result of the virus 22% of small businesses were forced to close earlier this year, including 41% of black owned businesses.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051749", "text": "So there's a lot of impact to agriculture and your administration has been great and working with us to be able to help them through it.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000051750", "text": "We do see technology playing some new and important role.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000051751", "text": "We do see technology playing some new and important roles.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000051752", "text": "To meet therapeutically and cure is more important than vaccine because it's immediate.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051753", "text": "David Solomon didn't think I was very good at bond trading.", "issue": "trading"}
{"id": "0000051754", "text": "And we're not treated by world trade, we're not treated right either, the World Trade Organization.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000051755", "text": "And they're willing to give up their wealth in order to see the country go to hell.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000051756", "text": "My question is about healthcare and preexisting conditions, very important to me and a lot of Americans.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051757", "text": "He rebuilt the military through investments in our defense capabilities as well as secured the largest military pay raise in a decade.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051758", "text": "The attorney looking into the coup running against you will not have any announcements, any results before the election.", "issue": "coup"}
{"id": "0000051759", "text": "If I win, we'll have a great deal with Iran within one month.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051760", "text": "For many years a vile group of corrupt power, hungry globalists, socialists and liberal extremists in Washington has been waging war on the hardworking people of Ohio.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051761", "text": "Energy caused it.", "issue": "Energy"}
{"id": "0000051762", "text": "The strategic reserves are meant for military purposes for war, not to keep prices down for an election.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051763", "text": "And I think that's why Russia went in because number one, if I'm not there, if I'm not there, I'll tell you, they figured, This is the time.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051764", "text": "And now we have a war between Russia and Ukraine with potentially hundreds of thousands of people dying that would never have happened if I were your president.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051765", "text": "And I think it's probably the weakest border of any country.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051766", "text": "It's an invasion of crime and remember, much of the crime that we talk about is caused by drugs.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051767", "text": "He said, Sir, South Korea and China are dumping washing machines and dryers and all this stuff.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051768", "text": "Remember, we were supposed to be working with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051769", "text": "We will defend our constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051770", "text": "And crime generally concerns me, any form of crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000051771", "text": "She was a woman of enormous talent and consequence and her life of public service serves as an example to us all.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000051772", "text": "We have great leaders in our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051773", "text": "You could do a strike as retribution, and it could be a big strike, as retribution for the World Trade Center, et cetera, but to get stuck in there, it was like quicksand.", "issue": "retribution"}
{"id": "0000051774", "text": "Now we were supposed to have a war and probably a very big nuclear war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051775", "text": "They're fighting for Russia, they're fighting for China.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051776", "text": "I will say when China watches this, they're so happy and they're laughing at us.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051777", "text": "But China in particular has threatened our military bases, Japan's military bases.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051778", "text": "Today, we're making the most significant investment in our park since the administration of the legendary conservationists President Theodore Roosevelt.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051779", "text": "Under my order these criminals face 10 years in jail, 10 years in prison.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000051780", "text": "Inflation is the highest in 49 years, 9.1% and a lot of people think it's much higher than that.", "issue": "Inflation"}
{"id": "0000051781", "text": "We'd either ideally send them out and in some cases they were so bad and so dangerous, we put them in jail because we didn't trust the other countries to hold them.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000051782", "text": "In California, the governor wants to pay for their education, their medical.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051783", "text": "Singapore, likewise, despite the wealth and all of the other aspects that would normally lead to massive use of drugs, has no drug problem because dealers are given, after a fast trial, the death penalty.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000051784", "text": "These drug dealers, they just don't deal in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051785", "text": "In new Orleans, earlier this year, 73 year old woman was left dead ...", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000051786", "text": "Just like a third world dictatorship Democrats only see the law as a weapon to persecute their political opponents while they let rapists and murderers go free.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000051787", "text": "But the day I took the oath of office, we ended the war on American energy and we stopped the far left assault on American energy workers.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051788", "text": "But the day I took the oath of office, we ended the war on American energy and we stopped the far left assault on American energy workers.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051789", "text": "Brian Welch spent five years in the army, supporting our victory in the Gulf War.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000051790", "text": "There will be no more low income housing forced in to the suburbs.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000051791", "text": "And ended the war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051792", "text": "But most importantly, I opposed historic tariffs on China, and stood up to China's rampant trading abuses.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051793", "text": "Biden and the far left lunatics are waging war on Ohio energy workers.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051794", "text": "Under my leadership, we waged war on the cartels.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051795", "text": "You would've ended up in a nuclear war at that time, believe me.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051796", "text": "That was caused by energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051797", "text": "And now we have a war between Russia and Ukraine with potentially hundreds of thousands of people dying.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051798", "text": "He supported Joe Biden's war in American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051799", "text": "China condemned my travel ban on their country.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051800", "text": "This includes terrorism, the oppression of women, forced labor, drug trafficking, human and sex trafficking, religious persecution, and the ethnic cleansing of religious minorities.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000051801", "text": "As we speak, the United States is also working to end the war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000051802", "text": "In the war against the virus, American truckers are the foot soldiers who are really carrying us to victory, and they are.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051803", "text": "My administration is devoting every ounce of our energy and every fiber in our bodies, to give a tremendous...", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051804", "text": "Because of the virus, Ford was forced to stop automobile production for the first time since World War Two.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051805", "text": "I've been fighting to bring back our jobs from China, and many other countries.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051806", "text": "We made a great deal with South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051807", "text": "We renegotiated the catastrophic deal with South Korea to preserve the protective tariff on foreign made pickup trucks.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051808", "text": "You're a certain age, you have a problem with diabetes, or you have a problem with your heart, you're a prime suspect for this horrible disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000051809", "text": "When I returned from Castro's prison, I joined the United States Army with a presidential officer appointment.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000051810", "text": "I stood up to China like no administration has ever done before.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051811", "text": "But they also made a deal with China, and the deal with China was a phenomenal one by people wanted $15 billion in agricultural purchase.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051812", "text": "Under Joe Biden, it has been a nonstop war on American agriculture, you know that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051813", "text": "Under my administration we've seen a significant drop in air pollution since 2017, a very significant drop for the first time in nearly 30 years.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000051814", "text": "He cleaned up corruption as police commissioner of New York City, then served as the Governor of New York, Vice President, and at 42 years old, became the youngest ever President of the United States.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051815", "text": "When I left office, we gave the new administration the most secure border in US history.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051816", "text": "We fight for other country's borders, but we don't fight for our own border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051817", "text": "Instead the economy is going to Hell and inflation is going to cause a catastrophe in the near future.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000051818", "text": "The evidence demonstrates that the virus originated in a Chinese government lab.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051819", "text": "I think they'd stop building their military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051820", "text": "A trade deal with China didn't mean very much.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051821", "text": "Biden cravenly lifted sanctions on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051822", "text": "We were going to war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051823", "text": "Not only the pipeline, but Russia, look at the sanctions on Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051824", "text": "And I can tell you, China is extremely happy about it.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051825", "text": "We will defend our glorious constitution and we will uphold the Judeo-Christian values and principles of our nation's founding.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051826", "text": "You fight back, you lose your pension, you lose your life.", "issue": "pension"}
{"id": "0000051827", "text": "They put you in jail you fight back.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000051828", "text": "We were going to go to war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051829", "text": "Everybody said, Trump will be in war in the first week.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051830", "text": "They say it's a bigger issue than healthcare itself.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051831", "text": "And I do, I support democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000051832", "text": "It's one thing I've learned, the people heading these other countries, whether it's President Xi of China, Putin of Russia, Erdogan, Turkey, any of them, Kim Jong Un, North Korea.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051833", "text": "No, it would have been a war if you had Hillary Clinton.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051834", "text": "Would've been a war if Obama were allowed to stay any longer.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051835", "text": "Under my administration, we ended the war on American energy and I put the miners back to work.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051836", "text": "When Joe Biden was vice president, the border was an open pipeline for criminals, gang members and cartels, flooding our schools with drugs.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051837", "text": "Joe Biden voted for the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051838", "text": "Right now we are leading a war that's incredible.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051839", "text": "We imposed the toughest ever US sanctions in Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051840", "text": "As long as I am the president of the United States, I will fight with every ounce of energy and strength.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051841", "text": "And it's made people that were looking for food happy and it's made the farmers happy.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000051842", "text": "In our fight against the China virus, we've launched the greatest industrial mobilization.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051843", "text": "And we had just signed an incredible trade deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051844", "text": "In our fight against the virus, we've launched this mobilization.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051845", "text": "On the question of foreign trade, previous leaders were guided by a shameful policy of capitulation, submission and retreat.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051846", "text": "In 2013, the US International Trade Commission found your competitors from Korea and other countries guilty of dumping washers into the US market and ordered them to pay anti-dumping duties as high as 79%.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051847", "text": "They were a joke, and they were perfectly happy to let China win, your jobs disappear and your factory to close.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051848", "text": "Fourth, I promised to label China a currency manipulator, and I did.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051849", "text": "We're attacking the virus from every angle, and through this aggressive strategy, we will win the war and it will happen sooner than people think.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051850", "text": "But we cannot defeat the virus by fighting against each other, just can't.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051851", "text": "One of the key lessons we've learned in this battle against the China virus is that the mighty American economy has a fantastic ability to adapt and repurpose its factories.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051852", "text": "We cannot rely on China and other nations across the globe that could one day deny us products in a time of need.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051853", "text": "That was where China signed that and they went up like a rocket ship and they violated the rules like nobody's ever violated them before.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051854", "text": "As long as I am President of the United States, I will fight for you with every ounce of energy and strength that I have.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051855", "text": "Using federal emergency authorities, the FDA approved a new test for the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051856", "text": "You have mentioned that the number in China has been decreasing, and China has made tremendous progress in the past weeks.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051857", "text": "We have our deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051858", "text": "Big, even by the standards of some of the people here, the deal with China, but I think that they want to get to the bottom of things also.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051859", "text": "They should have approved healthcare last night, but you can't have everything.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051860", "text": "We're restricted by Congress from negotiating the price of drugs.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000051861", "text": "I signed an executive order to fight kidney disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000051862", "text": "We're doing healthcare, but this is more important than anything, the price of drugs.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051863", "text": "Forcing us to beg for energy from foreign suppliers.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051864", "text": "After the plague came in, you know, we made a great deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051865", "text": "We've made a great deal with China, but my view has changed a lot.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051866", "text": "Slow Joe opposed the travel ban on China that I instituted.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051867", "text": "To protect our families and workers during the China pandemic, I sealed our border against illegal immigration, and suspended the entry of foreign workers who threatened American jobs.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051868", "text": "President, your leadership when it comes to job creation, education reform, choice when it comes to education, will allow this country to fulfill its American dream.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051869", "text": "In our battle against the China virus, these actions saved countless lives, speeding up the production of equipment.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051870", "text": "Over 30 states have taken steps to reduce these barriers to unemployment, and to employment, and including a state that I love very much.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000051871", "text": "You fought for free and fair trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051872", "text": "From the earliest days of the pandemic, we have marshaled the genius of American scientists and researchers from all across government and the private sector, from academia, from everywhere to vanquish the virus, and tremendous strides have been made.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051873", "text": "Typically pharmaceutical companies wait to manufacture a vaccine until it has received all of the regulatory approvals necessary.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051874", "text": "And in many cases they don't have vaccines and a virus or a flu comes and you fight through it.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051875", "text": "We think we're going to have a vaccine in the pretty near future.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051876", "text": "It causes massive depression.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000051877", "text": "As I fight to protect our amazing seniors from the China virus, I'm also fighting to protect you from another danger.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051878", "text": "Look at North Korea, they thought would be a war and a war immediately with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051879", "text": "When you look at education, my administration has approved $13 billion for state and local education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051880", "text": "I mean, to me, the therapeutic is even more important than the vaccine at this point, because people will get better.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051881", "text": "And therefore, if we're going to commit longterm to addressing the racial inequities and issues of discrimination in our country, HBCUs have to be a part of that.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000051882", "text": "Today, because of an order I signed, if you demolish a statue without permission, you immediately get 10 years in prison.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000051883", "text": "China devalued their currency in order to pay it.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051884", "text": "But as you know, the virus has forced many of our nation's restaurants to temporarily close.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051885", "text": "This pandemic has made us realize one thing.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051886", "text": "Nearly every top Democrat in Congress now supports taxpayer-funded abortion all the way up until the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000051887", "text": "I did not support the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051888", "text": "If our opponent, if my opponent won, instead of having record stock markets and record employment numbers, you would've been in, in my opinion, a major recession, if not a depression.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000051889", "text": "I said to our secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue, because China, very smart.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000051890", "text": "The hard left is also waging war against freedom of speech.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051891", "text": "You think it's easy beating China on trade, guess what, we're beating them on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051892", "text": "Even when you get into religion, they have not treated us fairly.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000051893", "text": "One board of education member viciously smeared the students as racists, sexists, bullies who are brainwashed by their Republican parents.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000051894", "text": "Nobody ever judged China for doing anything.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051895", "text": "As part of our great rebuilding the U.S. military we also signed a $5.5 billion contract to build combat ships in Marinette, Wisconsin, supporting thousands of jobs.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051896", "text": "By the way, remember, we were going to be in a war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051897", "text": "If we win, and when we win, we are going to have a deal with Iran immediately.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051898", "text": "I said to Secretary Perdue, secretary of agriculture, Sonny, how much they've targeted our farmers.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000051899", "text": "And then we signed a deal with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051900", "text": "China will own the United States if we don't make this deal and we will if we don't get elected, China will own the ... mark by word.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051901", "text": "Iran will insist on an even better deal than they made with Obama.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051902", "text": "In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000051903", "text": "In fact, unfair trade is perhaps the single biggest reason that I decided to run for President.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051904", "text": "With unyielding commitment we are curbing the opioid epidemic.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000051905", "text": "We are working to finally end America's longest war and bring our troops back home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051906", "text": "The Democrat party's war on cops has already led to a surge in vicious murders in Democrat control cities costing countless black lives.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051907", "text": "He claimed victory in Syria, calling the Turkey-Syria border situation a success, despite significant casualties to the Kurds in the region.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051908", "text": "The war was going to be vicious and probably not very long and I'm very happy to have been involved in it as are our vice president, our secretary of state and all of the other people in our team.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051909", "text": "But I did honor my commitments with 58 Tomahawks, eight long years after President Obama's ill-fated push at regime change, US troops are still on the ground in Syria.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051910", "text": "Where our military is depleted, fighting in areas of the world where we shouldn't be.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051911", "text": "From your base in Kuwait, you support our fight against radical Islamic terrorism and help combat Iranian aggression.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000051912", "text": "China expressed their wish, Please get rid of America First, and the Biden administration said, That's okay, we'll get rid of American First.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051913", "text": "But what they did is they used COVID in order to defraud the people of this country.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051914", "text": "There's no state income tax in Florida, but you see New York City, 350% increase.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000051915", "text": "Roger Stone's supposed to report to jail, and the jury foreperson in his case ... Paul Manafort's case was dead.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000051916", "text": "You know, he'll fight Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051917", "text": "Let's fight Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051918", "text": "Let's fight China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051919", "text": "I fight, that's why I'm fighting with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051920", "text": "I think Iran has potential, and I think North Korea, those are two countries we're dealing with right now at a very high level.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051921", "text": "I think Iran has a tremendous, tremendous potential.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051922", "text": "And with respect to Iran, I think they have to do something, because they have potential to have an unbelievably great country.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051923", "text": "We're battling the virus on every front, speeding relief to our work workers and pursuing therapies and vaccines at record speed.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051924", "text": "But very big where you'll be seeing it price transparency, some people think it's bigger than healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000051925", "text": "As you observed early on, we recognized that the coronavirus represented a particular threat to seniors with underlying health conditions and diabetes being among them.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051926", "text": "We're lowering the price of prescription drugs, making our allies pay their fair share.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000051927", "text": "That will make the pandemic look like child's play to the people in energy.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000051928", "text": "That name gets further and further away from China, as opposed to calling it the Chinese virus.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051929", "text": "She said, We have to make this deal with South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051930", "text": "He voted for the war in Iraq.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051931", "text": "On one of the single most important policy decisions of our lifetime, Joe Biden sided with China over America, that's closing the border.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051932", "text": "At my direction early this year, the heroes of the U.S. military took out the world's top terrorist, the savage killer leader of ISIS al-Baghdadi and the number one terrorist, anywhere in the world, Qasem Soleimani.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051933", "text": "I've already made one with China, but I can make even more.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051934", "text": "Iran wants to make a deal so badly.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051935", "text": "And since then countless jobs and $100 billion of new investment, not government investment, have poured into 9, 000 of our most distressed neighborhoods anywhere in the country.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000051936", "text": "I've backed Ukraine from the beginning, but I'm very upset that other countries aren't doing the same.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000051937", "text": "And South Korea thinks we've done an incredible job.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051938", "text": "But I think we'll have a vaccine by the end of the year.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051939", "text": "I think we're going to have a vaccine by the end of the year.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051940", "text": "Yeah, I think we're going to have a vaccine much sooner rather than later.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051941", "text": "President Trump, it's been widely reported that the threat of the Coronavirus was included in your daily intelligence briefings for weeks prior to the first confirmed case in the U.S.", "issue": "Coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000051942", "text": "I think we're going to have a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051943", "text": "I think we're going to have a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051944", "text": "We're facing a shortage of supplies due to the closure of chicken, pork, and beef plants.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000051945", "text": "It probably ended the first world war because the soldiers were all getting sick.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051946", "text": "We had CDC officials in China to detect and contain the outbreaks.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051947", "text": "We redid the deal in South Korea.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000051948", "text": "All they do is they agree with China, whatever China wants to do.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051949", "text": "Well, I think that trade is an important issue.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051950", "text": "The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000051951", "text": "We want to start with a 21st century war happening every day in this country.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051952", "text": "I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051953", "text": "You had supported the war in Iraq before the invasion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051954", "text": "I did not support the war in Iraq-", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051955", "text": "And that was before the war started.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051956", "text": "Then they did an article in a major magazine shortly after the war started, I think in '04.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051957", "text": "I voted for every sanction against Iran when I was in the Senate, but it wasn't enough.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051958", "text": "And when they made that horrible deal with Iran, they should have included the fact that they do something with respect to North Korea.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051959", "text": "The deal with Iran will lead to nuclear problems.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051960", "text": "Trump, this year Secretary Clinton became the first woman nominated for president by a major party.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000051961", "text": "When I look at the Iran deal and how bad a deal it is for us, it's a one-sided transaction where we're giving back $150 billion to a terrorist state.", "issue": "transaction"}
{"id": "0000051962", "text": "Even someone like Captain Khan, the young man who sacrificed himself defending our country in the United States Army, has been subject to attack by Donald.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000051963", "text": "We are not at war with Islam and it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051964", "text": "There are children suffering in this catastrophic war, largely I believe because of Russian aggression.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051965", "text": "The reason they blame Russia is because they think they're trying to tarnish me with Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051966", "text": "I think wherever we can cooperate with Russia, that's fine, and I did as secretary of state.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051967", "text": "It's how we got the sanctions on Iran that put a lid on the Iranian nuclear program without firing a single shot.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051968", "text": "Right now, Syria is fighting ISIS.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051969", "text": "First of all, China is illegally dumping steel in the United States and Donald Trump is buying it to build his buildings.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051970", "text": "I support moving toward more clean, renewable energy as quickly as we can, because I think we can be the 21st century clean energy superpower and create millions of new jobs and businesses.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000051971", "text": "He choked and then got into a Twitter war because the Mexican president said, We're not paying for that wall.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051972", "text": "He'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051973", "text": "The top national security officials of this country do believe that Russia has been behind these hacks.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051974", "text": "Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians continue.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000051975", "text": "And this is what's caused the great migration, where she's taking in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, who probably in many cases ...", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000051976", "text": "And, yes, some of that threat emanates from over in Syria and Iraq, and we've got to keep fighting, and I will defeat ISIS, and some of it is we have to up our game and be much smarter here at home.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000051977", "text": "And this has to do with our border, wasn't meant to be for the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000051978", "text": "Farmers have never done better because China is living up to that trade deal because they really sort of have to.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051979", "text": "We didn't go to war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051980", "text": "And we don't want to go to war with North Korea.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051981", "text": "We were paying, in my opinion, close to a hundred percent of the defense of European nations who, excuse the language, screw us on trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051982", "text": "So they take advantage of us on trade, and we defend them for nothing.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000051983", "text": "And yet, we defend them against Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000051984", "text": "Our military will be incapable of fighting and incapable of taking orders.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000051985", "text": "They used COVID in order to cheat.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051986", "text": "They used COVID in order to rig the election and in order to steal the election.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051987", "text": "We will defend our constitution and we will proudly upheld Judeo Christian values and principles of our nation's founding.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000051988", "text": "Each of you begins your career in the Army at a crucial moment in American history.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000051989", "text": "It's designed to improve trust in the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051990", "text": "We have the vaccine, and then it will be submitted, of course, for approval and authorization sometime in October.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051991", "text": "You're supposed to believe the science and I'm telling you the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000051992", "text": "We'll not allow the corruption to steal such an important election, or any election for that manner.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000051993", "text": "Second, Russia has approved a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000051994", "text": "No, what he did is they made a terrible deal with Iran and the deal was a horror show and I ended it.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000051995", "text": "Nationally people sick with the China virus now make up only 1.5% of all emergency room visits.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000051996", "text": "The left wing war on cops puts our officers in danger and our communities at very grave risk.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000051997", "text": "Assuming that ByteDance is China, which I think it probably is.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000051998", "text": "I think by that time COVID will be even lower.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000051999", "text": "The WTO, as far as I'm concerned, was created to suck money and jobs out of the United States to the benefit of China and other countries, that's what my opinion is.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052000", "text": "I think the vaccine's going to be even better than people thought originally.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052001", "text": "They're basically fighting a major religion in our country.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000052002", "text": "Fighting any religion, fighting Catholicism is just incredible that they can be doing it.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000052003", "text": "And whether it's Dianne Feinstein or anybody else, I think they ought to treat religion with much more respect.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000052004", "text": "They'll abolish America's borders and give government healthcare to illegal aliens, which will destroy our healthcare system because so many people will pour into our country.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052005", "text": "After the war the people of Wilmington organized a massive campaign to save this beautiful ship from the scrapyard.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052006", "text": "We put a ban on China, heavily infected.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052007", "text": "I ended last administration's war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052008", "text": "He wants to give illegal aliens government healthcare and taxpayer funded lawyers, establish a national sanctuary city policy for illegal aliens with criminal records.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052009", "text": "I ran on the issue trade.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000052010", "text": "We've ended the war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052011", "text": "Our new agreement with China will protect our intellectual property and pry open vast new markets for American beef, pork, poultry, seafood, soybeans, rice, dairy, and much, much more.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052012", "text": "We are making healthcare better and cheaper.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052013", "text": "Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late-term abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000052014", "text": "As part of my commitment to rebuild our military we secured an $8.5 million facility to support our Iowa Guardsmen at Camp Dodge, right here in Des Moines, Iowa.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052015", "text": "We support, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052016", "text": "Over the course of his illness, the president has experienced two episodes of transient drops in his oxygen saturation.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000052017", "text": "But let me just say, this pandemic is about the public health of our nation, and thank you for your commitment to hold future hearings on the strategic national stockpile, mental health and racial disparities.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052018", "text": "We are facing a highly transmissible and deadly virus, which not only claims lives but also disrupts the very foundations of our society.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052019", "text": "My concerns around the safety of hydroxychloroquine in people infected with the COVID-19 virus were reflective of the scientific review that we received from an inner agency group of clinicians and regulatory experts and scientists.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052020", "text": "It's my understanding the samples from the virus were made available to the US government and that the CDC expanded the virus stocks between January 29th and February 3rd, and shared the BEI on February 4th to enable broad sharing.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052021", "text": "Since the early days of the outbreak, President encouraged doctors to prescribe chloroquine to suffering Americans, despite a lack of evidence supporting its use.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052022", "text": "And once I confirmed that there was a shortage, it was critical that we find a solution.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000052023", "text": "Despite the lack of data supporting the clinical benefits for the treatment of prevention of COVID-19, the Trump administration promoted the drug's use to the American people because it was seen as a big immediate win.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000052024", "text": "Bright, you understood that America would face this shortage of respirators in January.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000052025", "text": "We understood America would face a shortage of N 95 respirators for pandemic response in 2007.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000052026", "text": "We knew going into this pandemic that critical medical equipment would be in short supply.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052027", "text": "There is still time to put science and reason back into the national strategy for fighting COVID-19.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052028", "text": "I don't think my salary has changed.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000052029", "text": "Doctors described how they can't obtain the drug and don't understand the process for accessing it.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000052030", "text": "I think we're here today because COVID is real.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052031", "text": "And the World Health Organization confirmed your view that the virus was a big problem in a January 20 call to agencies, including HHS.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052032", "text": "Bright, we are currently seeing the number of COVID-19 tests that are being administered increased nationwide.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000052033", "text": "He was unwavering in his defense of our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052034", "text": "You can defend the truth, you can defend democracy, you can lift up others.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052035", "text": "I believe in the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052036", "text": "He's making it easier for Russia to send us gasoline, to be more reliant on Russia and Middle Eastern oil, because he shut off the spickets.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052037", "text": "At home in my district, the Northern border is being impacted because border patrol officers are being transferred from the Northern border to the Southern border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000052038", "text": "Oct 5, 2021 Senator Elizabeth Warren claimed there is a culture of corruption among top Fed officials during a Senate floor speech on October 5, 2021.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000052039", "text": "We fought back against a great depression to rebuild this economy.", "issue": "depression"}
{"id": "0000052040", "text": "I have a plan to outlaw all political gerrymandering nationwide.", "issue": "gerrymandering"}
{"id": "0000052041", "text": "I think it's time for a wealth tax in America.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052042", "text": "I'm in this fight to recover our democracy, to build a democracy that works from the grass roots, up.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052043", "text": "Corruption has put our planet at risk.", "issue": "Corruption"}
{"id": "0000052044", "text": "Corruption has taken over our government and we're running out of time.", "issue": "Corruption"}
{"id": "0000052045", "text": "Let's attack corruption head on.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000052046", "text": "When these agencies are captured, the results are pollution and financial advisers who cheat people, all while regulators look the other way.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000052047", "text": "Corruption in Washington has allowed the rich and the powerful to tilt the rules and grow richer and more powerful.", "issue": "Corruption"}
{"id": "0000052048", "text": "This historic loss of jobs has also led to a historic loss of healthcare and all of this has happened as we've surpassed 512, 000 deaths due to COVID.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052049", "text": "The difference is the congressmen identified, this is a tax that hits only the top one 10th of 1%.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052050", "text": "Our nation's history of racial terrorism demands more seriousness from us than that.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000052051", "text": "While in there, he was accused of flirting with a white woman.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052052", "text": "People were getting the vaccine in record numbers, but you see these mandates and you see them just jamming it on Americans.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052053", "text": "We're committed to following the science and ensuring transparency, and to providing regular updates.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052054", "text": "But the challenges our nation faced only inspired you to fight harder for democracy, universal rights, and the rule of law in all the places you serve.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052055", "text": "Those were also the virtues that inspired the woman who stood by his side that day and who we honor on this day, Nancy Reagan.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052056", "text": "It's a bit ironic that the woman who would never take no for an answer asked an entire nation to Just Say No.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052057", "text": "What they were trying to do is figure out how much is COVID 19 in populations where there are no symptoms.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052058", "text": "And, we're either trying to fight this virus or we're not.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052059", "text": "Biden's also politicized the military and caused recruiting to plummet.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052060", "text": "There's so much of the federal government infrastructure went into suppressing honest scientific discussion during the pandemic.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052061", "text": "So in the same bill that banned critical race theory, we required teaching thoroughly about racial discrimination that occurred in American history.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000052062", "text": "But right now, you clearly have an outbreak in places like Broward and Dade County and Palm Beach now and I think most of those flights are going to that part of the state as well.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052063", "text": "And some of those conditions are enumerated like chronic lung disease, moderate to severe asthma, serious heart conditions, immunocompromisation, including those in cancer treatment, and severe obesity.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052064", "text": "And then for the emergency management, they bring food for the workers and I've said, You better make sure you're helping these local businesses here in Tallahassee.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000052065", "text": "We should all be coming together to fight coronavirus because clearly, this global pandemic has no boundaries.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052066", "text": "So we face this virus and beat it.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052067", "text": "As you look over the next couple of weeks, every day, where you can make progress against this virus is a huge, huge deal.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052068", "text": "We want to make sure that people are getting their compensation for unemployment, it's a top priority of the state of Florida.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052069", "text": "In order to get unemployment, you have to legitimately be out of a job.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052070", "text": "I don't see how, in a time of pandemic where people are on edge already, releasing felons into society would make a whole lot of sense.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052071", "text": "I also think the way unemployment works is you're not usually even eligible to apply for a certain amount of time.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052072", "text": "Now they have not had a significant outbreak compared to other parts of southeast Florida, but it's important to be able to have the access for our folks in northwest Florida.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052073", "text": "Senator Scott, Senator Rubio both have suggested that certain people on unemployment do not want to work because they're making more on unemployment than otherwise.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052074", "text": "I mean, I think the science is pretty clear on that.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052075", "text": "That mean you can't acquire the virus two days from now or three days from now.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052076", "text": "But that is a way to help fight the epidemic and that's a huge, huge thing.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000052077", "text": "This is a virus that if you look in the state of Florida, over 85% of the fatalities are people 65 and up.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052078", "text": "We should not be relying on China for all these important medical supplies, and that includes prescription drugs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052079", "text": "There's definitely a war to try to get staff.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052080", "text": "More recently in November, it didn't get as much play as the vaccine, but when we had EUA approval for the monoclonal antibody for Eli Lilly, a lot of folks were worried about whether hospitals would even want to do it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052081", "text": "Less than a year ago, we were confronted with this awful pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052082", "text": "We have Raphael Martinez, will be administering the vaccine to Vanessa Arroyo.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052083", "text": "We got two members who are working in healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052084", "text": "And as I said, with the Johnson & Johnson, hopefully being approved in January, we're not too far away where you could have a one dose vaccine, that'll be even more broadly available.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052085", "text": "If you're a healthcare worker and you're still unsure about taking the vaccine, talk to one of your team members that's taken the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052086", "text": "There's all types of things we can do, the key issue is getting more vaccine to the states, particularly to the state of Florida.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052087", "text": "But by the time we get down the line with some of these other vaccines, I mean, I think the virus will be receding.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052088", "text": "And we've shipped a lot of vaccine to long-term care facilities, all the major hospitals in the state, county health departments.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052089", "text": "Now, just before Christmas, the state received the first shipment of the Moderna vaccine, which was directed to over 170 hospitals that spanned the entire state.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052090", "text": "Many of the folks that are involved in planning and administering the vaccine are the same individuals that have been caring for patients across this system, whether they're COVID-19 patients or other patients that need care.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052091", "text": "And I think the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a great way to do that.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052092", "text": "This is obviously a much different disease than that, but I think it's a force multiplier for us.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052093", "text": "And I think it followed the appropriate science, and I think that we're better for it.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052094", "text": "Because if we can identify an infection from a staff early, that could make the difference between completely obviating an outbreak in one of these facilities.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052095", "text": "I think the technology and the innovation is moving in that direction, but that would be really good to just be able to periodically do that.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000052096", "text": "We do now have this new FDA approved drug, remdesevir.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000052097", "text": "Sometimes it represents a prison outbreak.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052098", "text": "As of last night, the state of Florida has now paid out $1.8 billion since the pandemic hit.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052099", "text": "Just because you go to phase one, that does not mean the disease is going away.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052100", "text": "But education is distinctly that thing that makes us human beings.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052101", "text": "I think that unemployment's really on the federal government because I think they're the ones that caused it, and so they should do relief.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052102", "text": "The travel restrictions at the front end of a pandemic I think made sense.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052103", "text": "Otherwise, you could potentially face loss of employment or other types of penalties.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000052104", "text": "That was a big investment on the part of the state, but I think that that's an investment that's it's very well served.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052105", "text": "And obviously, while the coronavirus is important thing, it's certainly not the only issue as it relates to people's health, and certainly when you're talking about heart and stroke.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052106", "text": "The science on it, I think is pretty clear about kids being extremely low risks when it comes to this virus and not only that, but they are not considered vectors of transmission.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052107", "text": "When the pandemic hit, obviously there's a lot of concern about what the virus is doing, who's getting infected, hospitalizations, and obviously it's a very critical issue.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052108", "text": "And whether that was out a fear of catching coronavirus, whether it was a belief that there weren't going to be medical services.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052109", "text": "And so, we talked yesterday at the state board of education about the increase in teacher compensation to make us number five in the nation for average minimum salary.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052110", "text": "The federal government passed the law where the pandemic and EBT was authorized.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052111", "text": "And what COVID has done is it's forced us to really jump in and make it a significant part of the delivery.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052112", "text": "There's some big promise on a vaccine that was announced yesterday.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052113", "text": "We obviously have a fight with the virus and its impacts on individuals who were infected.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052114", "text": "So that's an important way to keep COVID from really spreading in the most vulnerable areas.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052115", "text": "Because I think that what we've seen was in March and April obviously there was a lot of focus on COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052116", "text": "As we look at what's going on with the virus, it is an enemy for us for sure, but so too is fear in terms of how we approach this.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052117", "text": "The challenge to COVID is for those that are acutely ill, this a very isolating virus, and we have made concerted efforts to make sure that we engage the family members through technology.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052118", "text": "But they test positive at a higher rate, particularly the 20 to 30, their positivity rate, I think for the whole pandemic is close to 16 or 17%, whereas the senior citizens they're in single digits with that.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052119", "text": "Because for us, it's about really putting resources towards education to the public, to let them know why it is important and how we can make a difference.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052120", "text": "I think the virus has run its course in New York.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052121", "text": "The other thing that a lot of the physicians have asked for and have been using is the prescription drug remdesivir.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000052122", "text": "The surge in the number of people being diagnosed with coronavirus is coupled with the fact that hospitals are providing the convalescent plasma earlier in their treatment which is driving demand to new heights.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052123", "text": "We've been using it since the outbreak of the epidemic and we're finding that we have very positive results from it.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052124", "text": "So for example, like a Jackson healthcare in Miami, obviously they've had the most significant epidemic.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000052125", "text": "As challenging as this pandemic has been, the lives lost that we mourn over, the silver linings of the innovation, the telehealth and the expansion of telehealth and tele-monitoring obviously to support individuals with COVID.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052126", "text": "And as he looked at them, this is heart disease, stroke, and severe diabetic issues of people who put off coming in.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052127", "text": "When I was in med school, back with Hippocrates, we didn't learn much about COVID, but what we've learned is that there's a few things that make a huge difference.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052128", "text": "The rest of the state had a relatively modest outbreak then.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052129", "text": "And so if you want to know where the risk of mortality is from the coronavirus, you've got between 100, 000 and 150, 000 folks in these facilities in Florida, and they represent over half of the fatalities in the state.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052130", "text": "Hispanic immigrant community are upset about accusing them of spreading COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000052131", "text": "But I do think that that infrastructure is very, very important to have, in terms of the testing.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052132", "text": "We throughout the course of the pan ... so before the pandemic began, I think Florida's hospitals were running about 88, 89%.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052133", "text": "Because for us, it's about really putting resources towards education to the public, to let them know why it is important and how we can make a difference.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052134", "text": "I think the virus has run its course in New York.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052135", "text": "Now, the most significant thing, I think, to look at when you're looking at something like the coronavirus is...", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052136", "text": "I could tell you, throughout most of this pandemic, there were states that would kill to have had a 10%.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052137", "text": "This woke ideology represents a war on truth itself.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052138", "text": "When it's not easy and you do it, that's when they go to war for you.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052139", "text": "We need to rebuild critical infrastructure and manufacturing capability in this country.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052140", "text": "Now, Joe Biden has politicized the military and caused recruiting to plummet.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052141", "text": "But I do think their epidemic was different.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000052142", "text": "Now, one of the reasons why we may not have quite as much as demand as you have had a decline in COVID like illness, visits statewide as well as influenza like illness visits statewide.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000052143", "text": "That means that the disease is both more widespread than I think people thought in like January, February, but it also means it's less lethal in terms of hospitalizations and less lethal, obviously in terms of fatalities.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052144", "text": "Yeah, and I feel very bad because the technology is stable, people can file an application.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000052145", "text": "And as we learn more about this virus, I think the guidance that we get from on the experts, I.E. the CDC, the Florida Health Department, governor DeSantis' office.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052146", "text": "Yeah, technically not everyone would need to exhaust the unemployment, maybe they would go back to work sooner, but you remove any of the concerns about any disincentives.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052147", "text": "To support testing and containment, this week CDC put out guidance around testing for higher education, as well as for K-12 students.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052148", "text": "Before a vaccine is ready, we'll be working with states like Florida to plan for what distribution will look like.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052149", "text": "We will not cut corners in our assessment of the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052150", "text": "I think the outbreak in Hillsborough and Tampa Bay is a little different than the outbreak in Dade and Broward.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052151", "text": "The construction trade is critical for rebuilding communities that were devastated by Hurricane Michael.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000052152", "text": "I mean, you look, some of these states still have eight and 9% unemployment, and we have 4.7%.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052153", "text": "But I think what happened was they dropped their price so dramatically that it's not clear to me that at that point they could have been denied it on neutral grounds.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000052154", "text": "As we got into the pandemic, it seemed like concerns for that kind of faded.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052155", "text": "While we, of course, continue to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, we should acknowledge that this pandemic has probably made some of these other issues more challenging.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052156", "text": "I think the pandemic has just set us back.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052157", "text": "We do have a significant investment from the federal government, roughly $5 million, to both get the word out, but also bolster our 2-1-1 network.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052158", "text": "It's supports our opiate epidemic, trying to help those individuals combat that substance abuse problem.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000052159", "text": "And look, I think that you can say that COVID is the most important thing in the world.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052160", "text": "Many states in the union have been engulfed by the tides of the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052161", "text": "And I think in terms of the fatalities, I think passes away with COVID is counted.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052162", "text": "We rank number one for net in-migration.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000052163", "text": "We believe in workforce education and we've expanded opportunities for Floridians to obtain certifications and credentials.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052164", "text": "We also understand that part of fighting crime is to protect Floridians' right to defend themselves.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052165", "text": "And that was a very high demand vaccine prior to that happening.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052166", "text": "With the leadership in Tallahassee through this pandemic it's made St. Pete probably the best place on earth to be doing business.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052167", "text": "And so, I think we conducted three elections under COVID, did it well.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052168", "text": "We will authorize or approve a vaccine solely on the basis of the data that we receive in the determination of safety and efficacy.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052169", "text": "But make no mistake about it, President Trump has made it clear that we want a vaccine available for the American people every bit as soon as it is safely and effectively available.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052170", "text": "Our first objective is to have a vaccine that works, to have tens of millions of doses available and then administer it to the American people.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052171", "text": "It's one of the reasons why President Trump is calling for a new $105 billion from the Congress that we'll make available, 70 billion will be distributed just for K-12 education and the rest for higher education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052172", "text": "We have our commissioner of education, Richard Corcoran.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052173", "text": "We signed an incredible trade deal with China, but once COVID came in, I didn't care about trade deals so much, but it's a tremendous trade deal.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052174", "text": "I will end Joe Biden's war on American energy and immediately begin the process of expediting construction of new natural gas pipelines to New England.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052175", "text": "Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052176", "text": "If I didn't take over from Obama, if he had another year, you would've had a nuclear war with Kim Jong UN of North Korea.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000052177", "text": "The drug cartels are waging war in America.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052178", "text": "We're going to wage war on the cartels.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052179", "text": "And they're made in China, just so you know, and causing a lot of problems.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052180", "text": "And we had the safest border in the history of our country by far, and that means drugs and human trafficking, which is mostly in women I hate to say.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000052181", "text": "I stood up to China like no administration has ever done before, and I made people aware that China was ripping us off.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052182", "text": "This won't be a conventional war with army tanks going back and forth shooting each other.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052183", "text": "We actually made an incredible trade deal with China, I don't even talk about it because COVID was so bad.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052184", "text": "They'll start a war every week.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052185", "text": "And we have to throw off the shackles of globalism, and reassert two very important words.", "issue": "globalism"}
{"id": "0000052186", "text": "The woman brings chaos, and that's exactly what's happening.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052187", "text": "Organized crime today is on the streets, and this administration doesn't want to talk about that crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052188", "text": "And this war will be worse than any war ever because we have weapons the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052189", "text": "But in the years since, democracy has taken a battering in the United States as well as around the world, from attacks on the rule of law and the press to the rise of autocrats.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052190", "text": "I do believe that democracy will win if we fight for it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052191", "text": "I think that there is less tolerance for ideas that don't suit us.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000052192", "text": "The idea of America, the idea of the possibility of a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-religious, large, big, complicated country still being able to function as a democracy, that is an important idea for the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052193", "text": "So President Biden, a man who you know extremely well, has made the defense of democracy the sort of centerpiece of his administration.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052194", "text": "Obama also weighs in on the war in Ukraine, and why the outcome is vital to democracy.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052195", "text": "People have gone through a difficult time because of COVID and the pandemic and lockdowns, because of inflation, primarily the result of both the war in Ukraine and rising energy prices as well as supply chain issues.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052196", "text": "Well, I think the Ukraine of that time is not the Ukraine that we're talking about today.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052197", "text": "And there was some sympathy to the view that Russia was representing its interests.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052198", "text": "And when we returned, the former president discusses one of the greatest threats to democracy, the war on truth.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052199", "text": "But looking out the window, I made a decision as a young girl, I will never, ever get a job in tech.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000052200", "text": "Many people think that because of this, China played a very active role in the 2020 election.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052201", "text": "But after COVID, I don't even bother talking about it because the devastation that caused for the entire world was too much to bear.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052202", "text": "We will end Joe Biden's war on American energy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052203", "text": "We will wage war upon the cartels and stop the fentanyl and deadly drugs from killing 200, 000 Americans per year.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052204", "text": "And we made a deal with China that's so great and with Japan that's so great, with South Korea, all countries that were ripping us off.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052205", "text": "We confronted their sellout to communist China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052206", "text": "I'll tell you, before COVID came in, a gift from China, commonly known as the China virus, I mean to be a COVID.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052207", "text": "What happened in Afghanistan in my opinion was the greatest humiliation that our country has ever seen.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052208", "text": "But if you think about it and we would cut crime in the country because a big part of our crime is drug related crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052209", "text": "I put 50% tariffs, China was dumping steel all over the place.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052210", "text": "We will defend our constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052211", "text": "We have a war Ukraine, with perhaps millions and millions of people dying in the end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052212", "text": "And perhaps it's going to lead to world war 3, because the way we're handling it, we just gave $40 billion on top of another 16 billion, so we're for $56 billion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052213", "text": "The war with Russia going into Ukraine would never have happened.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052214", "text": "And by the way, in Afghanistan, we left, I think it was the lowest day in the history of our country.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052215", "text": "My son Otto was invited to North Korea on an organized tour.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000052216", "text": "She will fight for a strong military because she believes its peace through strength.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052217", "text": "She will fight to support our only democracy in the Middle East, Israel.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052218", "text": "Russia started the biggest war in Europe in 75 years.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052219", "text": "And in communist China, we faced the strongest and most disciplined enemy in history.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052220", "text": "We'll stand with our allies from Israel to Ukraine, and stand up to our enemies in Iran and Russia.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052221", "text": "As the proud wife of a combat veteran, I saw our people's deep love of freedom and the determination to defend it.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000052222", "text": "So what he's accused of doing is taking about $1.9 million in compensation that he did not tell the tax man about.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000052223", "text": "Rather than risk the possibility of 15 years in prison, he has agreed to serve 100 days.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000052224", "text": "There is zero tolerance for individuals who defraud the state and cheat our communities.", "issue": "tolerance"}
{"id": "0000052225", "text": "We agreed in one day, Mexico just moved 6000 people to their southern border, 6000 troops to their southern border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000052226", "text": "I also think that healthcare is going to be very important for me.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052227", "text": "Now, north of 90%, in some regions of the state it's closer to 95, 96% of all healthcare workers got that vaccination before the stated requirement when into effect, midnight last night.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052228", "text": "So we have an infrastructure, a foundation that's already in place, and now we're just amplifying that and we're building that and I'm very pleased that's already underway.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052229", "text": "We believe in science, not anecdote, not opinion.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052230", "text": "We believe in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052231", "text": "Those two studies are backed by $3 million of investment and are being conducted by our own University of California.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052232", "text": "Our team will be working closely with state board of education and president Darlene-Hammond's team and others on strategies to accelerate learning and learning gaps.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052233", "text": "And when it comes to the issue of the vaccine, was curious if the state will proceed in the same way if Joe Biden is elected president.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052234", "text": "Of the duties granted to governors by our state constitution, fewer more consequential than nominating a new justice to the state Supreme Court.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052235", "text": "And states that haven't had to struggle through this pandemic and the economic consequences are beginning to struggle through this pandemic and its economic consequences.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052236", "text": "Throughout the pandemic, Governor Newsom has inspired other leaders, other heads of companies with his values driven decisive actions.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052237", "text": "You example where some of the investment was made, and forgive me but it was six or seven months ago that I believe the issue of homelessness was the top agenda item in the State of California.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052238", "text": "And as we today, talk about this incredible investment in early education, we also talk about it in ways that layer in how we support dual immersion programs for all of our students.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052239", "text": "If you're willing to put in the work, then you can have a college education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052240", "text": "We all certainly in this pandemic want to feel safe, protected.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052241", "text": "North Korea threatens our regional allies and potentially our homeland with the development of nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000052242", "text": "Iran is the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, and they have taken advantage of instability to expand their malign influence and challenge the interests of the United States and our allies and partners in the Middle East.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000052243", "text": "We are still struggling with racism and we have much work to do.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000052244", "text": "Together, our actions and words in the military will demonstrate that our differences do not divide us, but only make us stronger.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052245", "text": "And we stand together to win the war against terrorism.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052246", "text": "As bad as that was, we did so because he abused the office, he breached the vow to the constitution, to the laws of the state, and to our country, and then lied about it under oath.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052247", "text": "The larger challenge we share is to confront an outbreak of fear and loneliness, and it is frustrating that many of the normal tools of compassion, a hug, a touch, can bring the opposite of the good we intend.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052248", "text": "Our second goal is upholding the people's faith in our democracy by demonstrating the integrity of our process.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052249", "text": "The wealthy and the well connected have no shortage of representation in Washington.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000052250", "text": "Let him never deceive you, David Purdue opposed direct stimulus for the people all year long.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000052251", "text": "Look, states have been struggling through this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052252", "text": "I don't think I'd have nearly the energy of the Republican party that we have right now.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052253", "text": "We could win that war if I wanted to kill millions of people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052254", "text": "I could win that war quickly if I wanted to kill millions of people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052255", "text": "And today, I am here with a woman who, according to reports, may be the 10th woman to accuse New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of inappropriate sexual conduct.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052256", "text": "And so he understands the need for a quality education, but he also understands the importance of parental involvement, as everybody here understands.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052257", "text": "The Governor has provided more funds for public education than any governor in history in the state of Texas.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052258", "text": "As we gather here on the wet steps of the Capital grounds, per student funding in public education is at an all time high in the state of Texas.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052259", "text": "You couldn't do a state takeover of the NYPD.", "issue": "takeover"}
{"id": "0000052260", "text": "The NYPD, if they have a serious staff shortage, then I would work with them to figure out how we remedy that.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000052261", "text": "I mean we've paid this price already.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000052262", "text": "The undeniable truth here is that this virus is a deadly enemy and we will lose and we are losing people who are vulnerable to the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052263", "text": "It's not state by state that declares war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052264", "text": "The War Room is fitting because we are at war, a war that began early last year when we were ambushed by the COVID virus, and a war that continues today.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052265", "text": "The artwork in this room reminds us that we have been at war before.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052266", "text": "And as our forebears before us, we will win this war and we will be the stronger for it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052267", "text": "We will win the COVID war and we will learn and grow from the experience.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052268", "text": "We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052269", "text": "Most immediate, until the vaccine reaches critical mass, we must regulate and implore New Yorkers to be diligent.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052270", "text": "If we tire before the enemy tires, we lose the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052271", "text": "While we're continuing to battle COVID and expedite the vaccine, we must also deal with the cost of COVID.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052272", "text": "The federal government thought the virus was still in China, but they were wrong.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052273", "text": "COVID had already traveled to Europe and three million Europeans had already traveled to New York before the federal government ever warned New York or the nation, or enacted a travel ban from the continent.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052274", "text": "They delegated responsibility for COVID to the governors and then failed to provide the resources.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052275", "text": "It is a war and like every war before it must be financed by Washington.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052276", "text": "After four years of Washington's assault on New York, their inaction would compound their crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052277", "text": "We will legalize adult use recreational cannabis, joining 15 other states who've already done so.", "issue": "cannabis"}
{"id": "0000052278", "text": "We're here today because we believe in education, not indoctrination.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052279", "text": "And so, we believe in having that true solid education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052280", "text": "Now, as a contrast to Critical Race Theory, this bill requires the Department of education in the state of Florida to develop a stories of inspiration curriculum, to inspire students with stories from American history that embody the principles of freedom.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052281", "text": "This bill protects these individual freedoms, and prevents discrimination in public schools and the workplace while supporting factual education discussions for our students.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000052282", "text": "Its main tenet is to rid racism with racism.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000052283", "text": "Abrams is the first black woman to run as a US Democrat candidate for governor.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052284", "text": "It mentions racism and discrimination and bias at least eight times as the cause of our economic development of cities.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000052285", "text": "We believe in education, not indoctrination.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052286", "text": "Cabin fever in many ways also threatens the essence of our constitution, which is premised on people ensuring domestic tranquility, and it can be disruptive to tranquility.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052287", "text": "There's an old expression, You go to war with what you have, not with what you need, which is true.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052288", "text": "For us, the war would fully engage if and when we hit that apex, and that's why everything we're doing now is in anticipation of that.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052289", "text": "The virus makes another move, and then we respond.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052290", "text": "New York state receives five billion dollars from the stimulus.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000052291", "text": "The testing is not telling you how many people have the virus, and I think a lot of people conflate the two and that's a mistake.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052292", "text": "At this rate with the spread of the virus, I don't even know that it would be responsible to ask for a convening of the legislature periodically.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052293", "text": "But if were dealing with this illness at home and perhaps they had symptoms that would have been treatable or it would have caused them to go to the hospital.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000052294", "text": "We're dealing with a war we've never dealt with before.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052295", "text": "And you can cause a serious illness or even death for them by your actions.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000052296", "text": "What's happening is China, the orders into China are very slow in coming out, exactly how and why we're not sure.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052297", "text": "You can't accelerate the orders anymore from China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052298", "text": "Unemployment is obviously- We'll deal with that when we get to it.", "issue": "Unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052299", "text": "As testing was ramping up, the priority was given to healthcare and other frontline workers along with people who are sick.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052300", "text": "I have great reverence for their technology, for their innovative spirit, for their leadership and I have great expectations that we can work through, at the county level, the issue with this particular county and this company in the next number of days.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000052301", "text": "You can just see here in this chart, U.S. recession that's been induced because of COVID-19 26.5% decreased just in the spring in the nations output.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000052302", "text": "And when I mean unprecedented, we talk in terms of that great recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000052303", "text": "So, when we talk about values in education, we mean it.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052304", "text": "I care deeply about special education, and I could not, in good conscience, be part of dismantling of a commitment we had made a well over a year ago to substantially improve special education in the state of California.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052305", "text": "Hi governor, public health officials on the frontline of this pandemic say despite the deficit, it's imperative to invest millions more in ongoing public health funding for counties across California.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052306", "text": "So, there's big concern that without a greater investment, the state will be ill prepared, not only in the coming months, but for the next disaster, the next crisis that the state can't anticipate.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052307", "text": "Well, I say there's been a pandemic that has precipitated a 22.3% reduction in revenue in just over 100 days, completely unanticipated.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052308", "text": "So again, all of these things got to address this issue of COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000052309", "text": "That's my intention to shutdown state prison, to continue to invest more and more in education, core value back to that value statement and the value slide that we advanced.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000052310", "text": "Again, the priority in higher education was to preserve the eligibility in the Cal Grant program so that those people who are out of work can go back to college.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052311", "text": "For those that think this emergency is gone, that think there's pandemic is behind us.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052312", "text": "Accordingly, being governor of the most diverse state, in the world's most diverse democracy also affords us the capacity of understanding, and again, strong formal relationships that have been developed over the course of decades.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052313", "text": "The cause of the current outbreak that originated in China is a new member of this family.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052314", "text": "But 5, 000 since this pandemic began, and our heart goes out to every single one of them, every family member that's lost their loved ones.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052315", "text": "Look at the issues of lack of healthcare and health access, mental health, and mental health care and access all as part and parcel of decision making.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052316", "text": "It's about fighting the disease and keeping our families and ourselves safe.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052317", "text": "Even if you don't feel sick, you may be transmitting this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052318", "text": "We are still experiencing the first wave of this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052319", "text": "You may recall a few months ago, I brought up some concerns around Lancaster Prison, Chino Prison, some other prisons in the State of California, where we saw an early outbreak of COVID-19.", "issue": "Prison"}
{"id": "0000052320", "text": "One prison in particular is of concerns generating appropriate level of interest as it should, and that's San Quentin.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000052321", "text": "You saw, for example, in South Korea, some infamous examples of South Korea as they were making real progress.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000052322", "text": "A lot of our American heroes from World War II, not just the Korean War, Vietnam War, or Iraqi freedom, and other wars, that are housed and supported in institutions like this have been immune from the spread of the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052323", "text": "We've got existing army of about 3000 tracers that are already working throughout the state of California.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000052324", "text": "The coronavirus has caused job losses, small business shutdown or otherwise limited operations.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052325", "text": "Over the years, I've witnessed and benefited from Goldman Sachs investment in small businesses.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052326", "text": "I'll add this, Texas has the second most recoveries from COVID-19 of all states in America.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000052327", "text": "I cannot unilaterally address the issue around the education of our kids.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052328", "text": "Because clearly not all the useful services of the state are absolutely necessary for combating the disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052329", "text": "But before that she was a Jersey City police officer; tough and outspoken, a fighter for her community and her city, her life defined the meaning of the words public service and Jersey City has paid a big price in this.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000052330", "text": "That especially makes this illness and these passings so cruel.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000052331", "text": "In Atlantic City, in addition to being cited for an EO violation, a subject was charged with the crime of robbery and possession of a controlled deadly weapon, namely a handgun.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052332", "text": "Cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause at 61.8%.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052333", "text": "We also have to make sure the virus doesn't come in on a plane again.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052334", "text": "Particularly as the three states have really broken the back of this virus, thank you again for everything and for having me today.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052335", "text": "This is a technology that was manufactured by Patel, a defense contracting company in the United States.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000052336", "text": "You go to a hospital, you could be tested for the novel coronavirus and treatment is compensated in those hospital acute care, emergency department settings.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052337", "text": "The results I mentioned in terms of the previous efforts to do what we referred to as community surveillance, and one should know those pilots are taking shape all across state.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000052338", "text": "There's an energy all across this country and there's extraordinary leadership with governors of large states, small states, all across this country.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052339", "text": "We've been having conversations with the superintendent of public education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052340", "text": "Those in-home visits are down as a consequence of the virus but what is not down is our guard and our commitment and resolve to work around that and work through that.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052341", "text": "And he said, please do not be misled by technology and inadequate data collection to make determinations of what's really happening on the ground.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000052342", "text": "We all know that education is fundamental to opportunity.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052343", "text": "One of the big struggles we have had in the last few weeks of this pandemic, is getting to rural and remote parts of this state, and getting up testing sites and making them available.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052344", "text": "I share that energy and share that enthusiasm demonstrably so with the deal we made with Abbott just on the 1.5 million tests with them alone.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052345", "text": "As a reminder, the large increase in the number of persons experiencing homelessness who were residing in a shelter were because of the outbreak that we have at the Union Rescue Mission.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052346", "text": "Number two, I'll just say this, states are laboratories of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052347", "text": "And as I said earlier, if significant sales of food, we'll see sales tax generation at the local level that should more than offset the local costs, if we this program to scale.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000052348", "text": "The National Guard as the original anchor, AmeriCorps, Team Rubicon, and Cal volunteers are really helping support the distribution of food for those most in need.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000052349", "text": "So, one of them, I'll just offer the mic here in a moment, is our secretary of agriculture who has been actually fighting for some of these programs for years.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000052350", "text": "One of the critical indicators that is prevalent in all of our discussions is the number of people whose lives have been lost to this pandemic, a number of people hospitalized, number of people in our ICUs.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052351", "text": "Again, the only thing, I mean it, the only thing that's going to hold us back is a spread of this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052352", "text": "We've been doing tracing as it relates to disease, infectious disease for years and years and years for decades, STDs, issues of HIV and AIDS, going back, TB, measles and other tracing capacity.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052353", "text": "And the economic consequences of this pandemic are such that we can't balance our budgets without substantial cuts unless we get additional federal support.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052354", "text": "Absolutely I will in the May 14th present a vaping tax to the legislature for their consideration, their consent.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052355", "text": "We had the lowest unemployment in modern recorded history in the state of California.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052356", "text": "Those unemployment numbers will translate into economic numbers of unemployment that are more acute than anything we've seen in modern times.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052357", "text": "The challenges of making sure that we're doing appropriate community surveillance so we're tracking spread in real time.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000052358", "text": "That furthermore, we're able to support with temporary housing a good number of those residents in our counties that are experiencing homelessness and may become COVID-19 positive.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000052359", "text": "Then ultimately that final phase, that fourth base, when we have immunity, we have the vaccine and we can go back to festivals and concerts and huge sporting events that define so much of our lives and enjoyment and entertainment before this crisis.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052360", "text": "If you do not believe in science, I hope you believe in observed evidence.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052361", "text": "They're the good for COVID, but they're really good for the crappy air as well, and make sure we're using them.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052362", "text": "He will travel frequently up and down the border as well as around the state as needed.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000052363", "text": "We must fight against Joe Biden's war against oil and gas and keep Texas number one for oil and gas production in the United States of America.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052364", "text": "We must treat it like the crime that it is, and that is murder.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052365", "text": "Texans have demanded a more secure border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000052366", "text": "The war is not over, but there are signs that we are winning this first battle with COVID-19, and we're seeing that in the rates of new infections around the state.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052367", "text": "The deal is it's a fact, it's hard to get rid of this virus because it is so contagious.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052368", "text": "Not also, as explained in the manual, if there is an outbreak of COVID-19, it could cause a County to revert back to a more limited capacity.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052369", "text": "Candidly, what we're dealing with in the panhandle, or certain counties in the panhandle in El Paso, would be either a meaningful outbreak that we are in the process of containing or concerns about hospital capacity.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052370", "text": "They're fearful of deportation and not taking advantage of some of these benefits that they are eligible for.", "issue": "deportation"}
{"id": "0000052371", "text": "But the war is not over, and in fact the battle is still going on.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052372", "text": "Birx was talking about the importance of opening up education in the coming fall year.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052373", "text": "Fewer Texans test positive for COVID-19 than residents of any large state in the United States.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000052374", "text": "So we must bolster civics education in our classrooms and ensure that every child learns the values of freedom, good governance, and patriotism.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052375", "text": "The most pressing health priority is to help Texans recover from the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052376", "text": "Defunding law enforcement invites crime and chaos into communities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052377", "text": "And yet some government officials across the country shut down churches during the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052378", "text": "We must also ensure that in the event another pandemic ever strikes again, families and businesses will never again face the financial consequences they experienced in 2020.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052379", "text": "Now, the pandemic has revealed what makes Texas great as well as ways that we can make it even better.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052380", "text": "One of the most pressing priorities facing Texas, and this pandemic has really exposed it, is lack of access to healthcare for too many Texans.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052381", "text": "As the governor mentioned, we also know this disease is impacting communities of color disproportionately.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052382", "text": "Golf landscaping, and I've heard these seem to be the ones that we hear the most from the legislature, some of the Republican legislators, you know what, it's not critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052383", "text": "This incredible number of 6.6 million people in last week across the country who are trying to file for unemployment has crashed state systems across the nation.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052384", "text": "So there is a shortage of acute care physicians, but I'd say it's certainly nurses.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000052385", "text": "We are definitely having a significant shortage of nurses to be able to take care of COVID-19 patients right now.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000052386", "text": "They told me that the virus impacted each member of the family differently and the outcome could have been different if they didn't have access to medical attention.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052387", "text": "I believe she is the first woman who is Black in our community, and I am so excited to see her enter this realm.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052388", "text": "With that, may I introduce the woman to my right who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the Department Of Health, Judy Persichilli.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052389", "text": "Before we get on to talk about tech, I am pleased to be able to announce today that our tourism numbers for 2022 have come in.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000052390", "text": "Another issue that you see with big tech is your right to privacy.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000052391", "text": "These other countries like Communist Cuba, they're not in the League of China in terms of where they're at with this, but it would apply to all those hostile regimes.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052392", "text": "We're working with lawmakers to tackle surveillance, censorship, engine transparency, protection of your data and protection of your children.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000052393", "text": "My office and I have said for years that we think big tech needs a reboot.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000052394", "text": "As big tech continues to encroach more and more on our daily life from commerce to education to public forums, it is critical for Floridians to be able to trust that their personal information and that of their children is safe from cyber criminals.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052395", "text": "At FDLE, combating cyber crime and protecting our children are key components of our public safety mission.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052396", "text": "Big tech is defending a fantasy world where two and two make five by censoring anyone who's so much as jokes about what reality is actually like, but it's even worse than that.", "issue": "tech"}
{"id": "0000052397", "text": "This is going to be time in jail that our law enforcement officials will help achieve.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000052398", "text": "This all goes back to the border. ... in those communities, as well as a result of that.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000052399", "text": "They think it's a pharmaceutical drug because of these pill presses that they're using.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000052400", "text": "The Mullahs in Iran will benefit by financially and China's going to benefit financially.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000052401", "text": "And number four, all schools in the state of Texas shall be temporarily closed, but this does not mean education stops.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052402", "text": "All critical infrastructure will remain open and operational.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052403", "text": "The more that people do to reduce their public contact, the sooner the COVID-19 disease will be contained and the sooner this executive order will expire ...", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052404", "text": "Every one of us is susceptible and we must fight this virus together.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052405", "text": "I haven't spent a lot of energy on that because frankly, we all have to be focused on fighting COVID-19.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052406", "text": "The enemy is a virus that does not distinguish between party line or state line or any other divide for that matter.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052407", "text": "China has poured billions into infrastructure and development projects across Africa, including a 2 billion dollar deal in Ghana to build roads and bridges.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052408", "text": "They are essential to restoring trust in democracy and preserving accountability in every administration.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052409", "text": "In this pandemic, the IG and HHS will play a critical role in conducting oversight of the government's response to the Coronavirus.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052410", "text": "We are very aware that the pandemic poses challenges for all regions of our country, which vary from state to state, county to county and city to city.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052411", "text": "Well, OIG does recognize that the pandemic presents challenges for all regions, but it does vary from state to state, county to county, and city to city.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052412", "text": "The left has tried to take education out of the hands of parents, local government and the states for too long.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052413", "text": "We know that education is at its best when run locally and when parents have choice, that is what we are fighting for.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052414", "text": "It's past time to support student focused education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052415", "text": "This majority led by Speaker Pelosi has not brought up a bill in over a month to address any of the crisis, families are facing like inflation, like high gas prices, like the border crisis.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000052416", "text": "Crime rising across America for the cities that asked to defund the police based upon democratic policies.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000052417", "text": "Oh, I think education is always a top priority, but I think the one thing you will find is the Republican Party will be the party of education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052418", "text": "It doesn't matter if it's the border, Afghanistan, from China to now the simple funding of government from one year to the next, the Democrats have made everything a crisis.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000052419", "text": "He criticized Democrat leaders for the response in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052420", "text": "Two members have gone to Afghanistan yesterday.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052421", "text": "I think you'd take military away from doing their job of getting as many Americans out we can.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052422", "text": "We support infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052423", "text": "This week, house Republicans will pass a bill that will force the federal government to acknowledge what the American people already know, the pandemic is over.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052424", "text": "We went to a facility for vaccination and Congresswoman Miller-Meeks went right back to being the doctor and the public health officials she always has been.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052425", "text": "To make sure those coming across, especially those children get tested for COVID before they're pushed out through cities across this country.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052426", "text": "They threaten energy independence, limiting domestic energy and mineral production, and underfund the request for our conventional energy development.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052427", "text": "One of the greatest threats we see right now is China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052428", "text": "COVID has now come on stage where it killed thousands of Americans and thousands across this world, but the Democrats refuse to bring anything up about them.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052429", "text": "The president has been describing the coronavirus, he's been calling me the kung flu.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052430", "text": "They want to make sure they see a vaccine for it and that's what we're moving towards.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052431", "text": "In my own district, current behavioral health says since the pandemic started, they have seen an increase in calls for suicidal students.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052432", "text": "But I think I would have followed the science, and the science said you could've gotten back to school already.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052433", "text": "The people feel like they're at war, not only with their own government, but big corporations are trying to kill them as well.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052434", "text": "The refusal to hold China accountable.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052435", "text": "We are seeing many who are going without food, medication, et cetera, so we're taking food to them to hopefully make their lives easier.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000052436", "text": "The first thing you'd have to do is agree on what infrastructure means, roads, bridges, highways, broadband and airports.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052437", "text": "Look, our main focus is making sure that we stop the runaway inflation the Democrats have caused.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000052438", "text": "On vaccines again, there was a meeting or an event with some GOP members earlier this morning, advocating their constituents to take the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052439", "text": "Think when members first got the vaccine, that's what they were doing and showing.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052440", "text": "You've got inflation caused by their spending.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000052441", "text": "Well just last year as he was running for president Joe Biden said, China's not competition for us.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052442", "text": "The way the rules read in the constitution, it comes to the House only if it's a tie.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052443", "text": "While Democrats choose to ignore the threat from China, we will increase American manufacturing and supply chain resilience by ending America's dependence on China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052444", "text": "We also know that we need to confront China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052445", "text": "The war on police must end.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052446", "text": "And mark our words, Republicans will end America's dependence on China for crucial medicines, medical supplies, and technology.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052447", "text": "Have we not learned through this COVID experience the damage of the dependency on China has caused us.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052448", "text": "Now, instead of bolstering our security to counter these serious vulnerabilities, the massive flow of have actually weakened our security along the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000052449", "text": "And Julia Letlow, her husband Luke had won the seat, and caught COVID and passed away before being sworn in.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052450", "text": "When we asked for an apology, an acknowledgement of her racist and blatantly false comments, we were met with even more racism and bigotry.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000052451", "text": "Republicans are pledging to hold more hearings on crime in more cities.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052452", "text": "Greater dependency on China, increasing inflation and threatening Medicare and social security.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000052453", "text": "If the money was authorized to fight the pandemic but was not spent during the pandemic, it should not be spent after the pandemic is over.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052454", "text": "But you mentioned inflation as an important concern that US policy makers have not yet fully addressed, yet alone remedied.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000052455", "text": "He said, Inflation only starts when government spends too much.", "issue": "Inflation"}
{"id": "0000052456", "text": "He also said the only way to curve inflation is the interest rates have to be higher than the inflation rate.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000052457", "text": "Then, think for a moment, the pandemic is over.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052458", "text": "And this time of war at any time, there's no excuse for big oil companies to profiteer, to price gouge, or exploit families.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052459", "text": "But that's simply garbage because the reality is they set the wholesale price and that's what the retailers buy in order to sell gas at the pump.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000052460", "text": "We wouldn't be here if the oil companies were using it to make the American consumers' price cheaper, they're not doing it.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000052461", "text": "Fires now are an issue that relates to infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052462", "text": "We all agreed that infrastructure has always been nonpartisan or bipartisan in our history.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052463", "text": "He knows the importance of infrastructure to commerce, to quality of life, clean air and the rest for our kids, as well as job creation and the rest.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052464", "text": "We are very, very, very densely populated, infrastructure is very, very important to us, and like I said, we have just about every single form of transportation in the district, from ferry to buses.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052465", "text": "When we talk about healthcare we're talking about addressing issues that relate to disability.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052466", "text": "And I'm grateful to the officers who protected us, protected the Senate and the House, the Vice President from violence, but even more important is they protected our democracy from failing that day.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052467", "text": "It issues that relate to home healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052468", "text": "I think I've been to Afghanistan at least nine times.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052469", "text": "At that time, with the American Rescue Plan and President Biden's actions, we had made extraordinary progress in crushing the virus and recovering from the economic crisis.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052470", "text": "The personal infrastructure must be built in order for the physical infrastructure to involve everyone in its success.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052471", "text": "So, again, based on information, facts, data, science, science, science, I think that in the communities we'll see more common grounds than we have seen in the Congress.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052472", "text": "We tell children that education is so important to them, to their own personal aspirations, to their community, to their families, to the competitiveness of America.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052473", "text": "And healthcare benefits from so much of what we want to do in infrastructure in terms of clean air, clean water, broadband, with in terms of how we communicate or medical issues and the rest.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052474", "text": "This is fundamental to our democracy that we respect the sanctity of the vote.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052475", "text": "In order to have the COVID added to omnibus, you have to have an omnibus.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052476", "text": "But it also provides long overdue benefits to veteran area veterans, who were impacted by Agent Orange.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000052477", "text": "Joe Biden committed to ending and crushing the virus and having a build a better America of initiative, big, back, better.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052478", "text": "The president has always said, the challenge we have is democracy versus autocracy, and again, he is making a decision to highlight that at the highest level.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052479", "text": "The PRC, the People's Republic of China, is waging a brutal campaign of oppression against the Uyghur people and other minorities, with mass incarceration, torture, and forced labor.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052480", "text": "Under the leadership of chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, we will be passing legislation to secure our American democracy, the Protecting our Democracy Act.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000052481", "text": "For the people, we will continue to fight for our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052482", "text": "I talked about 10% unemployment as quoted by the chairman of the Fed, Chairman Powell.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052483", "text": "They're not actual, and the vaccination might not make it actual anyway.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052484", "text": "Yes, I've been working on human rights in China for over 30 years since Tienanmen Square, and it's really important for the world to know that human rights are part of our value system as we engage in the world.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052485", "text": "So it's about the constitution and the liberties and the form of government that it contains.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052486", "text": "Recovery bill will be about many other things, including infrastructure and workforce development is very important there.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052487", "text": "And in Russia, they arrested for not reporting to his probation officer or something like that.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052488", "text": "In fact, I wish we were talking about a living wage, but $15 an hour is an important improvement over that.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000052489", "text": "Madam Speaker, since the president has had a meeting with lawmakers from both parties on infrastructure, it seems like that may be the next legislative agenda item for the Biden administration.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052490", "text": "The American Rescue Plan takes bold steps forward, and making healthcare more affordable and accessible, and including for those who have lost coverage through no fault of their own.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052491", "text": "For years in this country, families in Minnesota and across the nation have struggled with the rising costs of healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052492", "text": "The American Rescue Plan takes us one step closer to making healthcare as a right available for every American.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052493", "text": "We think it is the constitution of the United States.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052494", "text": "We think it represents the democracy of our country, by reducing, which is our responsibility, the role of big dark, special interest money in politics, by removing obstacles of participation, to...", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052495", "text": "How we protect ourselves against that makes COVID look almost doable because it is just a matter of money and vaccine, et cetera.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052496", "text": "And a significant part of that is building the infrastructure of our country.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052497", "text": "How you define infrastructure is part of how we go forward.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052498", "text": "And according to the secretary of energy, that things should be normal tomorrow or the next day or the next day, but certainly by the end of the weekend.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052499", "text": "Today, democracy faces a new threat.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052500", "text": "More than 65, 000 Americans are hospitalized with COVID, a new record that threatens to overwhelm our hospitals, and our hospitals in rural areas particularly effected.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052501", "text": "The American people are waiting for relief from the COVID virus, but Republicans refuse to take comprehensive action that meets the needs of the country.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052502", "text": "In order to do that, we must address the COVID pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052503", "text": "Just as the military leaves no soldier on the field in battle, when they come home, our commitment is to leave no veteran behind.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000052504", "text": "At the same time, as you know, earlier in the week, the administration was, instead of crushing the virus, trying to crush the Affordable Care Act.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052505", "text": "More than 67, 000 Americans are hospitalized with COVID, a new record threatening overwhelming our hospitals and our hospitals in our rural areas too.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052506", "text": "And then also, we want to make sure that when the vaccine occurs, there will be sufficient funding and sufficient vaccine to reach everyone in our country, as well as in the world.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052507", "text": "To their healthcare, to their jobs, their wages and the assistance they needed in confronting COVID-19 whether it was on the health side or on the economic side.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052508", "text": "On the economic front, 20 million Americans are on unemployment, with the benefits soon to, set to expire and millions have fallen into poverty and are food insecure and face the threat eviction.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052509", "text": "They will not decide to crush the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052510", "text": "So sadly, instead of crushing the virus, it appears that the Trump administration will use its final moments in office and a desperate last step to destroy every possible protection for American health and wellbeing.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052511", "text": "If you don't crush the virus, we'll still going to have to be dealing with the consequences of the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052512", "text": "We will, let me just say the constitution says that full faith and credit of the United States is not to be in doubt.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052513", "text": "It is a day prescribed in the constitution of the United States for the Congress of the United States to accept the results of the election as put forth by who won the electoral college.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052514", "text": "Throughout the pandemic, we have been so fortunate to have a mayor who believed in medical science, and actually let that direct his policies and the policies of our community.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052515", "text": "Our security experts tell us migration, the drought, rainfall, all different aspects of climate have an impact on access to habitat and resources and the rest, and are cause for conflict.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000052516", "text": "Beau was a war veteran and Delaware attorney general with his sights set on higher office.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000052517", "text": "We've also faced higher rates of joblessness to the coronavirus crisis, while also suffering racialized police brutality and militarization.", "issue": "joblessness"}
{"id": "0000052518", "text": "The fail safe, the final fail safe of our democracy will be rendered moot.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052519", "text": "Both were of great consequence to Ukraine and to our national interest and security, but one looms largest.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052520", "text": "Remarkably, but predictably, Russia too, has sought to support this effort to smear Mr. Biden.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052521", "text": "Such a wholesale obstruction of congressional impeachment has never before occurred in our democracy and it represents one of the most blatant efforts at a coverup in history.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052522", "text": "But not before you decide what kind of democracy that you believe we ought to be.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052523", "text": "Nothing could be more dangerous to a democracy than a commander in chief who believed that he could operate with impunity, free from accountability.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052524", "text": "On July 24 of last year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in a, quote, sweeping and systemic fashion, to benefit Donald Trump's political campaign.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052525", "text": "Ukraine had met all of the critical conditions for anticorruption and defense reforms in order to receive the funds.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052526", "text": "Since Russia's illegal incursion into Ukraine in 2014, the U.S. has maintained a bipartisan policy of delivering hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to Ukraine each year, which several senators here have personally invested significant time and effort to ensure.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052527", "text": "These funds that the president withheld, these funds, they don't just benefit Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052528", "text": "I'm sorry, Security system was so important for Ukraine as well as our own national interest to withhold that assistance for no good reason other than help with the political campaign made no sense.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052529", "text": "Facing significant public pressure on September 11th, the president gave up and released the money to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052530", "text": "Through the impeachment clause, the framers of the constitution empowered Congress to thoroughly investigate presidential malfeasance and to respond, if necessary, by removing the president from office.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052531", "text": "When a president abuses the power of his office to so completely defy House investigators and does so without lawful cause or excuse, he attacks the constitution itself.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052532", "text": "President Trump also sought to pressure the government of Ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official United States government acts of significant value to Ukraine on Ukraine's public announcement of these investigations.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000052533", "text": "If we say that we will align ourselves with that leader, allowing our sense of duty to be usurped by an absolute executive, that is not democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052534", "text": "America and the world are battling a terrible pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052535", "text": "I wish there would be a crowd, the fight energy isn't the same.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052536", "text": "And then to use those to the benefit of Russia against the United States.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052537", "text": "He said, I faced great pressure because of Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052538", "text": "And for the two officials who are still in the Army, they say that they are looking through their records to try to find that.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000052539", "text": "The Fed's response has been guided by our mandate to promote maximum employment and stable prices for the American people, along with our responsibilities to promote the stability of the financial system.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000052540", "text": "So, you have a responsibility to support maximum employment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000052541", "text": "Yet in the midst of a global pandemic, you have been complicit in eliminating over four trillion dollars in potential relief to cities, states and small businesses.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052542", "text": "We're talking of the 10 million people that are currently unemployed as a result of COVID, approximately half are just in one specific sector in the hospitality space.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052543", "text": "And now, COVID threatens all Americans, and particularly those who have chronic health problems or are immunosuppressed like I am.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052544", "text": "People donating food at food banks in order for others to keep safe.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000052545", "text": "There's the issue of accumulation of wealth.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000052546", "text": "You've supported legalizing marijuana.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000052547", "text": "Nobody making less than $400, 000 will pay a penny more in tax under my proposal.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052548", "text": "Secondly, I think that the biggest competitor is China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052549", "text": "Kamala Harris was the first woman and first black person to be district attorney of San Francisco and attorney general of California and she's only the second black woman to serve in the United States Senate.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052550", "text": "President Trump has said he denounces racism and white supremacy after the Black Lives Matter protests that began this summer.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000052551", "text": "It's important to take the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052552", "text": "If you make less than $400, 000, you won't see one single penny in additional federal tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052553", "text": "We know that your administration would follow the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052554", "text": "And we're now learning that children are getting the virus, not with as serious consequences, but there's been no studies done yet on vaccines for children.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052555", "text": "You've often said that more cops clearly mean less crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052556", "text": "Remember the significant rise in violent crime that was occurring in the late '80s into the '90s.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052557", "text": "Or by the way, I'm being sued because a woman has accused me of rape.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052558", "text": "And at the same time provide significant employment and a good union wages, prevailing wages.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000052559", "text": "The new green deal calls for elimination of all non renewable energy by 2030.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052560", "text": "I think you did a service to our democracy tonight.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052561", "text": "The pandemic is only made things worse.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052562", "text": "But he understands, we will respond on Iran and North Korea, nuclear programs that present serious threats to American security and the security of the world.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000052563", "text": "And American leadership means ending the forever war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052564", "text": "Let's end our exhausting war over immigration.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052565", "text": "In our first 100 days together, we've acted to restore people's faith in democracy to deliver.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052566", "text": "People are struggling to put food on the table for their families.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000052567", "text": "That's why we need to invest in infrastructure to make sure that every city, every home, every school has clean water.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052568", "text": "They believe in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052569", "text": "I was making a good salary, $42, 000 a year then.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000052570", "text": "We saw during the early days of the pandemic that the supply chain disruptions can put Americans' lives and livelihoods at risk.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052571", "text": "The president's mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and we're experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country, demanding change.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052572", "text": "We need to fight COVID-19 pandemic everywhere to strengthen global health security for tomorrow so we're ready for the next pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052573", "text": "On the nuclear agreement with Iran, JCPOA, we think that everything ought to be done order to bring this to a successful conclusion, but I think that is something that is also...", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000052574", "text": "Whether we can agree on common norms, particularly as regards to the relationship of us with China, we ought to coordinate our efforts.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052575", "text": "For example, we're going to have the first woman lead the intelligence community, the first Latino and immigrant to lead the Department of Homeland Security, and a groundbreaking diplomat at the United Nations.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052576", "text": "She has spent her career focused on unemployment and the dignity of work, which is really important to me and to all of us.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052577", "text": "And she'll be the first woman of color from South Asia, and I think that, to lead OMB.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052578", "text": "The pandemic and economic fallout fit together have caused so much damage for so many and have had a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable among us.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052579", "text": "My first 100 days won't end the COVID-19 virus, I can't promise that.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052580", "text": "Director of national economic council for President Obama, acting director for the office of management and budget he's there, was there, during the great recession, as he went from crisis to recovery, to resurgence in eight years.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000052581", "text": "Those values and priorities will help us emerge from this pandemic, a stronger, more just, and more equitable nation.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052582", "text": "Opening our schools and economy safely and responsibly, getting this virus under control, all of it starts with listening to experts and leaders like these.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052583", "text": "The best secretary of agriculture I believe this has ever had.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000052584", "text": "Marcia will be the first woman to lead HUD for more than 40 years and just the second black woman ever.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052585", "text": "He knows the cost of war on veterans and their families.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052586", "text": "Trade will be a critical pillar in our ability to build back better and carry out our foreign policy, foreign policy for the middle class.", "issue": "Trade"}
{"id": "0000052587", "text": "The crisis of a pandemic that has threatened their lives.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052588", "text": "We will fight for housing in every community that is affordable, decent, and safe.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000052589", "text": "Our top priorities will be to help end the pandemic and revitalize the economy so that it delivers for all.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052590", "text": "And tonight, I'm calling on all governors to require vaccination for all teachers and staff.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052591", "text": "Right now, local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them, and even threatens their salaries or their jobs.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052592", "text": "And that person who understands this, I'm proud to announce, is former secretary of education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052593", "text": "First official Latino to serve as the education commissioner, I started to call him the secretary of education, education commissioner.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052594", "text": "It shouldn't take a pandemic for us to realize how important teachers are for this country.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052595", "text": "At the same time, this pandemic threatens to widen disparities between students of different races and backgrounds, making it harder for those who already were behind to keep up.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052596", "text": "And when I did first take office as mayor in a city fighting its way out of the teeth of the great recession, infrastructure was at the heart of our vision.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052597", "text": "And he is of course a veteran, and a dedicated public servant who represents the very best of our country, and the next generation of American leadership.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000052598", "text": "And then we fight vaccine this information and exercise transparency to build vital public trust in these saving tools.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052599", "text": "And let me close with what I made clear yesterday at the UN, we can do this.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000052600", "text": "We have enough vaccine for everyone to get vaccinated, and thanks to the American Rescue Plan and the hard work of the American people, we've administered over 325 million vaccination doses in the past six months.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052601", "text": "In the last six months, more than 325 million doses of the vaccine have been administered in the United States, and billions of doses administered around the world.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052602", "text": "The vaccine was developed and authorized under a Republican administration, and has been distributed and administered under a Democratic administration.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052603", "text": "Alabama Republican governor, Kay Ivey recently spoke out to encourage vaccination and even the commentators on facts who've been belittling this for a long time.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052604", "text": "And the rest of America, this is no time to be despondent or let our guard down, we just need to finish the job with science, with facts, with the truth.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052605", "text": "Science hasn't dictated that yet.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000052606", "text": "In May, you made it sound like the vaccine was the ticket to losing the masks forever.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052607", "text": "The science is clear and it's up to the countries assembled here today to lead a decisive global response.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052608", "text": "In fact, with respect to energy and industry, we will closely align our efforts with the work of the forums, like the Clean Energy Ministerial and the Mission Innovation, both of which I'm proud to say the United States will chair next year.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052609", "text": "The fight against COVID today is far different from the fight we were waging last winter.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052610", "text": "They sacrificed so much to defend our nation and in securing our Capitol, they secured our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052611", "text": "Maybe even more importantly, for protecting our constitution in saving the lives of duly elected members of the Senate and the House and their staffs.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000052612", "text": "The strength of the alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea was born out of the courage, determination, sacrifice and of the Korean troops fighting shoulder to shoulder with American troops.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000052613", "text": "Hill 205 was just 60 miles from the border with China and then Lieutenant Puckett and the Rangers had their orders to take that hill.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000052614", "text": "He volunteered to go to Korea instead of the safer posting in Japan.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000052615", "text": "The infrastructure investment will benefit the Port of Baltimore and future generations for many years to come.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052616", "text": "If a factory in Malaysia shuts down due to a COVID outbreak, which they have, it causes ripple effect that can slow down auto manufacturing in Detroit.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052617", "text": "It represents the biggest investment in ports in American history.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052618", "text": "This pandemic has shined a bright light on the inequities that define our system.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052619", "text": "As our country and the world feels the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, we're all looking for hope in leadership to move us forward.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052620", "text": "And now he's accusing doctors of profiting off this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052621", "text": "He's done nothing but wage war on American labor.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052622", "text": "Donald Trump thinks healthcare is a privilege.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052623", "text": "My son, Beau, was a major in the United States Army, gave up the Attorney General's job and petition to be able to go with his unit to Iraq for one solid year.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000052624", "text": "That's why we have to support our military and get rid of Trump.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052625", "text": "It starts with the most significant investment in roads and bridges in America in 70 years.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052626", "text": "It will also include the most significant investment in passenger rail in 50 years, $66 billion for passenger and freight rail.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052627", "text": "Lowering the cost of prescription drug, making sure you're paying no than 35 bucks a month, for instance, not a 100, not a 1, 000 a month.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000052628", "text": "By mobilizing trillions of dollars of investment capital that's sitting on the sidelines, that can multiply the impact of our country investments in a significant way.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052629", "text": "I share your belief in transport infrastructure, particularly trains.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052630", "text": "The FDA gave full approval to the Pfizer vaccine today.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052631", "text": "The Delta variant is dangerous and spreading, causing a pandemic of the unvaccinated.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052632", "text": "And only makes sense to require a vaccine to stop the spread of COVID-19.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052633", "text": "And I decided to end the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052634", "text": "And China has trains to go 230 miles an hour for long distances, and we got money to do that back in the administration of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052635", "text": "We're going to make the largest investment in public transportation in the history of America, replacing transit vehicles that are past their useful life and make the most significant investment in rail since the creation of Amtrak 50 years ago.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052636", "text": "But still, Donald Trump refuses to listen to science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052637", "text": "Donald Trump thinks healthcare is a privilege, I think it's a right.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052638", "text": "That's why we have to support our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052639", "text": "This also a guy you may recall, the stable genius, he said, The problem with the revolutionary war was we didn't have enough airports.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052640", "text": "Donald Trump thinks healthcare is a privilege.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052641", "text": "There's going to be free college education for state universities when I'm your president.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052642", "text": "First and foremost, we need a President who believes in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052643", "text": "Trump and my opponent said that this pandemic would just go away, and cases continue to rise.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052644", "text": "He'll make healthcare available to more Americans than ever before.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052645", "text": "I'll deal with this pandemic responsibly, bringing the country together around testing, tracing, masking.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052646", "text": "Donald Trump thinks healthcare is a privilege.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052647", "text": "That's why we have to support the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052648", "text": "I am described as a woman that wears many hats.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052649", "text": "Right now, the president's refusal to address that virus has left us in public health crisis and severe economic crisis.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052650", "text": "But still Donald Trump refuses to listen to science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052651", "text": "Fact, Donald Trump thinks healthcare is a privilege.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052652", "text": "By the way, the same stable genius who said, the biggest problem we had in the revolutionary war is we didn't have enough airports.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052653", "text": "Early in this pandemic some of you have had to cover me for a long time, Trump called himself a wartime president fighting a war against an invisible enemy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052654", "text": "President, more than 1, 000 healthcare workers have lost their lives fighting COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052655", "text": "The inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic has caused a crisis in our nursing homes and long-term care facilities.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052656", "text": "If we made sure there was a minimum tax at 15%, that would add another $400 billion.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052657", "text": "My plan makes a bold investment so the states can clear the waiting list and also take the pharmaceutical companies.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052658", "text": "They refuse to follow the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052659", "text": "We'll invest to build more resilient infrastructure, roads, bridges, ports, 1.5 million new affordable housing units, high-speed broadband in every American household, more important than ever.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052660", "text": "Over the weekend, his chief of staff of the White House said, I quote, We're not going to control the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052661", "text": "But still Donald Trump refuses to listen to science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052662", "text": "Donald Trump thinks healthcare is a privilege.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052663", "text": "Look, folks, we don't need politics in this battle against COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052664", "text": "You think being tough with China is a trade deal that opens the door to big banks to make money in China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052665", "text": "It started a trade war that farm banker fees and America throws the American manufacturing into a recession.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052666", "text": "He said one of the benefits of this pandemic, cause he doesn't have to shake their hands.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052667", "text": "We need to make healthcare affordable for every American.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052668", "text": "But still Donald Trump refuses to listen to the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052669", "text": "Look, Donald Trump thinks healthcare is a privilege; I think it's a right people should have.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052670", "text": "When the administration was told that there's a thousand people a day dying of COVID, the response was, It is what it is.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052671", "text": "And we'll act to restore our faith in democracy and our faith in one another.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052672", "text": "He was going to wage war on the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052673", "text": "I first put forward a detailed plan on how to deal with this virus back in March, this administration ignored it.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052674", "text": "In a recent encyclical, Pope Francis warns us against this phony populism, that appeals to The basest and most selfish instincts.", "issue": "populism"}
{"id": "0000052675", "text": "We have to elevate the compensation of those providing the care, the benefits and dignity of caregiving workers and early childhood educators.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000052676", "text": "It also makes investments in higher education by increasing Pell grants.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052677", "text": "When Donald Trump thinks about renewable energy, he sees windmills somehow causing cancer.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052678", "text": "We're going to make a major investment to build 1.5 million new energy efficient homes.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052679", "text": "You had to beat the pandemic to bring the economy back.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052680", "text": "From 1948 after the war to 1977, I think it was 1977, '79, productivity in America grew by 100%.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052681", "text": "Acting together, all of us, but like with our federal response to COVID-19, a lack of a national strategy on climate, on climate change overall, leaves us with a patchwork of solutions.", "issue": "climate change"}
{"id": "0000052682", "text": "When Donald Trump thinks about renewable energy, he sees windmills somehow as causing cancer.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052683", "text": "I see farmers making agriculture the first in the world to achieve net zero emissions.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000052684", "text": "Transforming the electrical sector power to produce power without carbon pollution will be the greatest spur to job creation and economic competitiveness in the 21st century, not to mention the positive benefits to our health and our environment.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000052685", "text": "We made solar energy cost competitive with traditional energy and weatherized more than a million homes, which is just the beginning if we get reelected.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052686", "text": "So people say, I'm not taking a drug that was approved so quickly.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000052687", "text": "And one of the big issues was dealing with infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052688", "text": "They never once had included China in any criticism of what was going on.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052689", "text": "My father, who is a veteran, is completely bedridden, and my mom is experiencing issues with walking.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000052690", "text": "You have the vast majority of the 37 major countries in the world, economies, we rank 35 in our investment in education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052691", "text": "And then they said, Maybe we can work out a bipartisan deal on infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052692", "text": "If you pass the stuff I'm talking about, not one single penny in tax would go against anybody making less than 400 grand.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052693", "text": "That's why you hear people saying, Biden wants to start a new cold war with China.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052694", "text": "The pandemic didn't change that, but it made it more important.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052695", "text": "My administration is continuing to safeguard our critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052696", "text": "In America, we've seen critical infrastructure taken offline by floods, fires, storms, and criminal hackers.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052697", "text": "It's going to bring historic investment in clean energy addressing the climate crisis.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052698", "text": "Well, look, first of all, the significant reason why prices are up is because of COVID affecting supply chain.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052699", "text": "My Build Back Better framework will make historic investments in clean energy, the most significant investment to deal with the climate crisis that any advanced nation is made ever.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052700", "text": "We also reconvened the major economies forum on energy and climate to launch transformative actions and to raise ambition.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052701", "text": "I'd urge them to think about the science; not the science of Wall Street, the science of medicine.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052702", "text": "You just said that when it comes to a vaccine, you don't trust Donald Trump.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052703", "text": "It's necessary so people can trust the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052704", "text": "And the process results must also be grounded in science and fully transparent so the American people can have every confidence in any approved vaccine is safe and effective.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052705", "text": "At the same time, it's clear that this vaccine, even if approved will not be widely available for many months yet to come.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052706", "text": "And when it's ready, making sure an approved vaccine is distributed equitably and efficiently and free for every American.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052707", "text": "We can get this virus under control, I promise you.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052708", "text": "Local barbers, stylist, they become key advocates for vaccinations in their communities, offering information to customers, booking appointments for them even using their own businesses as vaccination sites.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052709", "text": "We owe them a commitment to follow the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052710", "text": "But I'm calling on all governors to require vaccination for all teachers and staff.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052711", "text": "And then on Monday after rigorous thorough review, the food and drug administration, the FDA authorized Pfizer vaccine for use in that age category, 12 and up.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052712", "text": "Now that vaccine is authorized for ages 12 and up, and I encourage their parents to make sure they get the shot.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052713", "text": "This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated so we got to make more progress.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052714", "text": "It only makes sense to require a vaccine to stop the spread of COVID-19.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052715", "text": "And the result when you reduce the cost of healthcare, more people can afford to get it.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052716", "text": "No, I don't think COVID is here to stay.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052717", "text": "And for all of you who have deployed family, deployed family members in the military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052718", "text": "And yesterday in an effort to instill some confidence in the vaccine, I had my shot administered in public.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052719", "text": "Trying to have us believe that we cannot trust our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052720", "text": "This president is treating NATO like it's a protection racket.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000052721", "text": "We'll honor our commitment to NATO if you pay me more money.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000052722", "text": "Your leadership through this pandemic has saved countless lives of Michiganders here, Gov.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052723", "text": "Because we refuse to follow the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052724", "text": "To get more information on how you can get your vaccine, go to vaccines.gov, or just go to the description below.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052725", "text": "But still Trump refused to listen to the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052726", "text": "Donald Trump thinks healthcare is a privilege, I think it's a right of every American.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052727", "text": "His own chief of staff said, last week, we're giving up on the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052728", "text": "I think healthcare is a right.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052729", "text": "We must support our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052730", "text": "That's why I've made getting COVID under control my top priority from my first day as president.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052731", "text": "We've made enormous progress against the virus through the summer.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052732", "text": "Yes, the pandemic has caused a lot of economic problems in the country, but the fact is our economy faced challenges long before this pandemic struck.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052733", "text": "Working people were struggling to make it long before the pandemic arrived.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052734", "text": "If you want to know just how much think of this, Chairman Warner wore his honorable service pin from world war two on the lapel of his suit jacket for 30 years as a Senator.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052735", "text": "The war was still raging.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052736", "text": "Those who suggest that compromise is a sign of weakness, misunderstand the fundamental strength of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052737", "text": "The estimates of the cost of this war over the last 20 years range from a minimum $1 trillion to a think tank at one of the universities saying $2 trillion.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052738", "text": "Look, if we had decided 15 years ago to leave Afghanistan, it would have been really difficult.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052739", "text": "But one of those issues will be public health as it relates to COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052740", "text": "Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052741", "text": "We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052742", "text": "We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052743", "text": "We face an attack on our democracy and untruth.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052744", "text": "I'll defend our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052745", "text": "Right now, China is leading in this race.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052746", "text": "It also makes the largest investment in research and development in generations.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052747", "text": "That we are the true engine and making this technology work, grow and power America's middle class.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000052748", "text": "Right now China's leading the race.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052749", "text": "And our Build Back Better Plan makes the largest investment of research and development in generations.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052750", "text": "The disappointment relates to the fact that Russia and including not only Russia, but China, basically didn't show up in terms of any commitments to deal with climate change.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052751", "text": "Critically, G-7 leaders endorsed a global minimum tax of 15%.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052752", "text": "In addition, we also agreed to tackle corruption, which is a threat to societies everywhere.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000052753", "text": "We believe that NATO is vital to our ability to maintain American security for the next remainder of the century and there's a real enthusiasm.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000052754", "text": "We were attacked, immediately NATO supported us.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000052755", "text": "China seems to be doing exactly what it wants to do with regard to Hong Kong, with regard to Jinjiang, with the South China Sea and many other issues despite pressure from you and from allies.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052756", "text": "I think there's plenty of action on China, and there's always something that you can...", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052757", "text": "I think China has to start to act more responsibly in terms of international norms on human rights and transparency.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052758", "text": "About Vladimir Putin and your meeting this week, as you're well aware, the US has been slapping sanctions on Russia for years for its malign activities and Russia has not stopped.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052759", "text": "Number one, my number one priority is getting vaccine in people's arms.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052760", "text": "The war would go on for nearly two more years, but the back of the Confederacy had been broken.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052761", "text": "Testing, tracing, the development and all approval and distribution of a vaccine, isn't a political statement.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052762", "text": "We fought a civil war that would secure a union that would seek to fulfill the promise of equality for all.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052763", "text": "The seriousness of this virus also underscores that we need regular testing with results turned around rapidly and that's available to everyone.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052764", "text": "And in this case, healthcare delayed means healthcare denied.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052765", "text": "Especially now when we're worried about the spread of this dangerous disease it's critical that essential workers can stay home when they get sick and don't spread the disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052766", "text": "Yesterday in California, he said, sitting with a group of scientists, I don't think science knows whether or not climate change is real.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052767", "text": "These are the cost of war that they'll carry and we'll carry as a nation for decades to come.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052768", "text": "Generations of elite sentinels have taken the post pledging their eternal vigilance.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000052769", "text": "President, in similar lines, the most important driving poles in the world today would be that of technology and the technology that is going to be for the service and for the use of humanity.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000052770", "text": "With no formal education, they both struggle with the language of English and literacy skills.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052771", "text": "Now with the financial support, I can pursue my education and focus on the importance of learning.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052772", "text": "As a result, every driver in this state pays a hidden tax about $600 per year in wasted time and wasted fuel because of the nature of the roads and bridges.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052773", "text": "We also need to continue to make healthcare more affordable.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052774", "text": "Up until now, China's been leading in this race, but that's about to change.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052775", "text": "This law makes the most significant investment in roads and bridges in 70 years.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052776", "text": "The law, includes the most significant investment in passenger rail in the past 50 years.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052777", "text": "This landmark piece of legislation represents a substantial investment in infrastructure, increases the investment in transportation significantly.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052778", "text": "That's $476 in hidden tax on New Hampshire drivers as a result of deteriorating infrastructure.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052779", "text": "But thanks to the infrastructure law, we're going to make the most significant investment to modernize our roads and our bridges in 70 years.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052780", "text": "Thanks to the congressional delegation, this law also represents the most significant investment in passenger rail in 50 years in public transit ever.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052781", "text": "During the Civil war, we built the transcontinental railroad, uniting and connecting the East and West coast, uniting America.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052782", "text": "Everyone, wherever there is a significant percentage of people with COVID should be required to keep social distancing and masks.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052783", "text": "What's key to people feeling safe to go back to work and school is a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052784", "text": "The black caucus supported it and violent crime against African Americans, fell by 57%.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000052785", "text": "And he treats NATO like it's a protection racket.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000052786", "text": "As we saw in this morning's job report, restaurants, bars, and hospitality industry have been slammed by this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052787", "text": "Warp Speed, got the vaccine to places that were delivered, but did not get them from those vials into people's arms, and so it is a gigantic logistical concern of how we do that.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052788", "text": "And that is that there will be other committees will be holding hearings on a whole range of issues from my positions on infrastructure, what we should be doing to generate a green economy, and so on.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052789", "text": "Helped end a war and literally bring tens of thousands of troops home safely.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052790", "text": "I believe in the importance of civilian control of the military, so does the Secretary-designate Austin.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052791", "text": "As my son, Beau Biden, who was a major in the military, I said, Now your a field-grade officer.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052792", "text": "A key plank of our Build Back Better economy and economic plan is building a modern, climate-resistant infrastructure and a clean energy future.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052793", "text": "When we think about renewable energy, we see American manufacturers, American workers racing to lead the global market.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052794", "text": "We see farmers making agriculture first in the world to achieve net-zero emissions and gaining new sources of income in the process on the farm.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000052795", "text": "Transforming the American electric sector to produce power without carbon pollution will be the greatest spur to job creation and economic competitiveness in the 21st century, not to mention the benefits to our health and our environment.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000052796", "text": "We made solar cost competitive with traditional energy, weatherized more than a million homes.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052797", "text": "He currently serves as New York deputy secretary of energy and environment and the state's chairman of climate policy and finance.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052798", "text": "My commitment to clean energy was forged in the fire.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052799", "text": "After Trump tweeted his go back , the leading Nazi website, Neo Nazi website said, this is the kind of nationalism we elected him for.", "issue": "nationalism"}
{"id": "0000052800", "text": "Trump readily, eagerly attacks Islamic terrorism, but can barely bring himself to use the words white supremacy.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000052801", "text": "We support strengthening Iraq's democracy and we're anxious to make sure the election goes forward in October.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052802", "text": "We're working very hard with the Iraqi government to make sure the UN and the GCC, we have oversight, that these are full and fair elections.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000052803", "text": "And we're also are going to discuss the threat from Iran and our commitment to ensure Iran never develops a nuclear weapon.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000052804", "text": "As I said, we're also going to be talking about COVID and the Delta variant, which is wreaking havoc across the world.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052805", "text": "We would likely experience a recession.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000052806", "text": "Now this woman in my class, she served as an interpreter for our military in war zones.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052807", "text": "And if you're making less than that, which many people are, you're not paying any federal tax, so you get no benefit.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000052808", "text": "The American Rescue Plan is going to cut poverty across the board in America by about 31, and that's a significant lift up for women.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000052809", "text": "I know, Major Bean, having been deployed in Afghanistan during the pandemic has only made everything much harder during the pandemic.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052810", "text": "After I announced my decision to end the war in Afghanistan, the first thing I did was visit Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052811", "text": "I've spent more time with President Xi of China than any world leader has, for 24 hours of private meetings with him, with just an interpreter.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052812", "text": "It will also help lead a historic reduction in child poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000052813", "text": "Historic reduction in child poverty, which will have long-term benefits for our economy.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000052814", "text": "Look, we were in that war for 20 years, 20 years.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052815", "text": "I am not concerned there's going to be a major outbreak.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000052816", "text": "To all those of you who volunteered and worked the polls in the middle of this pandemic, local elected officials, you deserve a special thanks from the entire nation.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052817", "text": "The battle to restore decency, defend democracy, and give everybody in this country a fair shot.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052818", "text": "Where an employer could refuse to hire you because of a disability.", "issue": "disability"}
{"id": "0000052819", "text": "Many Americans who seemingly recover from the virus, still face lingering challenges like breathing problems, brain fog, chronic pain and fatigue.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052820", "text": "This is a woman who ran the second largest Attorney General's office in America after the United States Attorney General in the State of California, and has done a great deal of human rights, but also fighting organized crime in the process.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052821", "text": "One of the things about the plan, also, is it really is about supporting education after high school, and then the individual can decide what that education will be.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052822", "text": "It's about education after high school, and then all of those tracks being available based on what a student wants to do, but supporting that.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052823", "text": "She taught me to be a woman of faith and love above all.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052824", "text": "His refusal to contain this virus is what has wreaked havoc on our economy.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052825", "text": "And on top of that, she's facing, and I have permission to say this, she's facing a terminal disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052826", "text": "More people trusted Xi Jinping of China and Putin of Russia than the President of the United States.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052827", "text": "We're not able to deal with everything from testing to guidance, to the all important issue of vaccine distribution, and even more importantly, vaccination plan to actually get vaccinations.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052828", "text": "The governors talked about how getting doses of vaccine distributed is just one step.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052829", "text": "It's about making sure China understands they got to play by the rules.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052830", "text": "And as a result, we have lost 230000 lives to COVID, so many people forced to die alone because of the nature of this virus.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052831", "text": "America, our democracy is always going to be as strong as our willingness to fight for it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052832", "text": "Donald Trump, look, folks, being a great consumer of healthcare I feel very strongly about this.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052833", "text": "Donald Trump thinks healthcare is a privilege.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052834", "text": "Folks, we're going to support our military.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052835", "text": "General Richardson and her husband Jim deployed to war together in 2003 as helicopter battalion commanders, flying dangerous missions over Iraq and also Laura's brother and sister were serving there too, making national security something of a family business.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052836", "text": "The U.S. military has defeated American enemies on land and air and at sea and this is not beyond us.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052837", "text": "As difficult as these past years have been, you have remained committed to democracy, to human rights, and the rule of law.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052838", "text": "One of the America's best examples of commitment to science is headquartered right here in Atlanta, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052839", "text": "The fact that your poll workers, your election workers, your volunteers, your local officials, your state officials, your courts stood up to the immense pressure with character, and honesty, and integrity helped save our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052840", "text": "We observed early in the pandemic that racial and ethnic minority populations were experiencing a disproportionate burden of COVID-19, not only infection, but also severe illness and death.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052841", "text": "We will fight to safeguard our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052842", "text": "But as an institutionalist, I believe that the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these Voting Rights Bills.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052843", "text": "The issue is, will we choose democracy over autocracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052844", "text": "We need to address the issues of employment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000052845", "text": "A young woman was killed protesting those folks.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052846", "text": "Even the folks on Wall Street pointed out that will increase the GDP, make it grow.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000052847", "text": "But you don't experience it the same way you do, Portia, because they're not a bright young Black woman with two kids here, is it two or three children that you ...", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052848", "text": "Just in the pandemic, the top 100 billionaires have made an additional $300 billion, top 100.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052849", "text": "You followed science and put public health and safety.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052850", "text": "We're not just going to praise you, we're going to pay you with a good wage.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000052851", "text": "More than 40% fewer families struggled to afford food, rent, utilities, car payments, student loans, and healthcare expenses.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000052852", "text": "And we've recently made significant new investments around vaccine education, including funds to help states and community organizations get the word out on the local level.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052853", "text": "And when I got my vaccine, I was glad I took my friend along, a predecessor of mine, former Republican governor Tim Pawlenty, and we got vaccinated together.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052854", "text": "About 70% of vaccinations at community health centers have been administered to people of color, and that number is 60% for the community vaccination centers.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052855", "text": "From combating COVID, to strengthening global health security, to also discussing our economic cooperation and Ireland's leadership now in the UN Security Council, which were working together.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052856", "text": "And of course, we need to match the miracle of science and the skill of manufacturing with the massive logistical undertaking of vaccinating over 300 million Americans.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052857", "text": "The other concern I would say is that as we go into vaccination, that our workers, our frontline healthcare workers and fire EMS have priority access to a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000052858", "text": "We know the right way to battle this virus, but our employers and our government are not supporting us.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052859", "text": "I think the science has not carried the conversation.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052860", "text": "If we get the science out there, I think the patterns will follow.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052861", "text": "But I think the science has been ignored and I think that's what has caused all the disruption.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052862", "text": "And calling for such today, General John Logan, Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued General Order number 11.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000052863", "text": "These Americans weren't fighting for dictators, they were fighting for democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052864", "text": "Democracy means the rule of the people, the rule of the people, not the rule of monarchs, not the rule of the moneyed, not the rule of the mighty, literally the rule of the people.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000052865", "text": "The struggle for democracy is taking place around the world, democracy and autocracy, struggle for decency and dignity, just simple decency, a struggle for posterity, prosperity and progress and yes, the struggle for the soul of America itself.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052866", "text": "To state the obvious, our democracy is imperfect, it always has been.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052867", "text": "While we've been fighting this pandemic for so long, we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052868", "text": "That's the only way we're going to beat this virus, I promise you.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052869", "text": "The fact there's more political prisoners, the secret police are as brutal as ever, and Russia is once again a major presence in Cuba in Havana...", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052870", "text": "For my entire career, I strived for democracy and human rights, for freedom of the press, assembly and religion against dictators of the left and the right.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052871", "text": "He refused to follow science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052872", "text": "And, during the height of the pandemic, she poured her heart and soul into the work to help patients fight for their lives and to keep her fellow nurses safe.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052873", "text": "I'm not going to second guess his doctors, he has some of the best healthcare in the world and I'm happy it was available to him.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052874", "text": "Number one, the president's own FBI director has said the greatest domestic threat to terrorism are white supremacists.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000052875", "text": "But we were only sitting in America since the civil war occupied by the national guard withdrawn bayonets for 10 months.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052876", "text": "You and I were just discussing privately any amount of climate resiliency infrastructure that Congress can send to your desk for signature, which I know you will support instantly, is a game-changer for our state.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052877", "text": "Her parents grew up with segregation, but it never gave up hope that their children would enjoy the true promise of America.", "issue": "segregation"}
{"id": "0000052878", "text": "Whether it's cases addressing the rights of workers or government service, she cares about making sure that a democracy works for the American people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052879", "text": "Because he refuses to follow the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052880", "text": "And a young woman was killed that was protesting the opposite direction.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052881", "text": "They've given us a mandate for action on COVID, the economy, climate change, systemic racism.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052882", "text": "We have serious problems to deal with from COVID to the economy, to racial justice and climate change.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052883", "text": "India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, who all agreed to join me in releasing additional oil from their reserves, and China.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000052884", "text": "In order to beat COVID, we have to shut it down worldwide.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052885", "text": "If authorized by the FDA, we may soon have pills that may treat the virus of those who become infected.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052886", "text": "And obviously, at this pivotal time, when as we've seen this week, thousands of Americans have lost their lives to COVID, the current president is absent from that conversation.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052887", "text": "To beat the pandemic, we have to vaccinate the world as well, and America's leading that effort.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052888", "text": "My plan and I'm announcing today pulls no punches in the fight against COVID 19, and it's a plan that I think should unite us.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052889", "text": "We're going to fight this variant with science and speed, not chaos and confusion.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052890", "text": "And I was getting a serious salary, $42, 000 a year.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000052891", "text": "This framework also makes the most significant investment to deal with the climate crisis ever, ever happened.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052892", "text": "The bipartisan infrastructure bill was also the most significant investment since we built the interstate highway system and won the space race decades ago.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052893", "text": "This pandemic has made clear the need for affordable and available high-speed internet.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052894", "text": "Yesterday, the head of the White House task force on coronavirus, the vice president, claimed success in the fight because deaths are down to fewer than 750 a day.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052895", "text": "The American people have sacrificed so much to fight this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052896", "text": "As long as the virus rages elsewhere, there is a risk of new mutations that could threaten our people.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052897", "text": "Now, a new generation of American men and women, working with today's latest technology is going to build a new arsenal to defeat the current enemy of world peace, health instability, COVID-19.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000052898", "text": "And the failure to respond to the pandemic, I think the federal government has abdicated any effective leadership role, the white house at least has abdicated that role.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052899", "text": "And they require significant investment.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052900", "text": "As long as this crisis exists, we have to make sure that unemployment is paid.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052901", "text": "The words of a President, no matter how competent or incompetent they are, can send a nation to war, they can bring peace.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052902", "text": "We strive to explore the stars, cure disease, make an imperfect union more perfect than is been.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052903", "text": "I'll deal with the virus, I'll deal with the economic crisis, and I'll work to bring a quality and opportunity to everyone.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052904", "text": "I believe in science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052905", "text": "Unlike Donald Trump, I believe healthcare isn't a privilege, I think it's a right.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052906", "text": "Going forward, drug companies that increase the prices faster than inflation are going to face a steep excise tax.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000052907", "text": "What I'm proposing is that we negotiate a fair price, one that reflects the cost of research and development, a need for significant progress.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000052908", "text": "It's making healthcare more affordable.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052909", "text": "Another letter was from a woman who wanted to tell me about how important the couple that ran the restaurant in her town near her was.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000052910", "text": "If the Supreme Court agrees with the opponents of the act, their decision could take healthcare away from 20 million Americans.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052911", "text": "Now, in the middle of a deadly pandemic that has infected more than 10 million Americans, nearly one in every 32 Americans, often with devastating consequences to their health, these ideologues are once again trying to strip health coverage away from the American people.", "issue": "health coverage"}
{"id": "0000052912", "text": "Now, I'm not naive about the fact that healthcare is an issue that has divided Americans in the past, but the truth is the American people are more united on this issue today than they are divided.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052913", "text": "For millions of survivors who have struggled, won and fought the coronavirus, fought against the loss of their life.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000052914", "text": "As I said, I will protect your healthcare like I protect... as my own family, and we've been unfortunately significant consumers of healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000052915", "text": "Enduring illness is faced with risky choices, losing their employer plans in droves.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000052916", "text": "And we're bolstering our defenses, but this war is far from won.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052917", "text": "We also have so much to be sorrowful about, nearly 1, 000 Americans a day are still dying from COVID-19 as we approach 550, 000 deaths in a single year.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000052918", "text": "I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack period, by cyber or any other means.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052919", "text": "How it is in the interest of both Russia and the United States to ensure that Iran, Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052920", "text": "It's very much in the interest of Russia not to have a resurgence of terrorism in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052921", "text": "US intelligence has said that Russia tried to interfere in the last two presidential elections and that Russia groups are behind hacks like Solar Winds and some of the ransomware attacks you just mentioned.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052922", "text": "I don't think he's looking for a cold war with the United States. ... a cold war with the United States.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052923", "text": "So we are essentially being forced out in Russia, 30 years after President Yeltsin invited us in.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052924", "text": "And based on what I believe Mr. Putin decided was that Russia has always been a major international power when it's been totally United as a Russian state, not based on ideology.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052925", "text": "And Navalny's death would be another indication that Russia has little or no intention abiding by basic fundamental human rights.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000052926", "text": "The leaders I'm dealing with in NATO and the G7 are leaders who know our recent history, know generically the character of the American people and know where the vast center of the public stands, not Democrat, Republican, but who we are.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000052927", "text": "Compared to other major industrial countries in Europe and Asia, during the pandemic, our unemployment rate is still more than double, while other nations have only gone up by half.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052928", "text": "Donald Trump's malpractice during this pandemic has made being a working American a life or death work.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052929", "text": "Like the people here at West End, throughout this pandemic, they found their way to keep the center open safely and provide for critical services.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052930", "text": "The Republic of Korea and the United States are both nations built on innovation, and we must both meet the challenges facing us today and look to what is possible for tomorrow.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000052931", "text": "We'll strengthen our ability to fight the pandemic and respond to future biological threats.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052932", "text": "Today, leaders and delegates of Korea and the United States met each other's eye and had a dialogue.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000052933", "text": "In addition to that, we've talked about the ability to have vaccines produced working with, and this is in the offing, working with one of the major vaccine producers in the United States and where Korea is incredibly sophisticated.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052934", "text": "On North Korea, we confirmed our commitment to the CVID of all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles of all ranges and agreed to demand North Korea to fulfill its obligations under Security Council resolutions.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000052935", "text": "And agreed that discrimination by race cannot be permitted in any societies.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000052936", "text": "In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and that's what artists do.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052937", "text": "If you make less than $15 an hour working 40 hours a week, you're making a wage under the poverty level.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000052938", "text": "They served in the United States army, and now they're serving jointly as the Poet Laureates of the State of Delaware and Nnamdi is a state representative.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000052939", "text": "It includes a historic investment in federal procurement, which is the way government purchases goods and services.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052940", "text": "Air pollution causes childhood asthma that follows them through their adult life and affects their overall health condition.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000052941", "text": "It's existing mandate promotes maximum employment, and stable prices.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000052942", "text": "And I think our democracy is at stake for real.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052943", "text": "So I think they should just follow the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052944", "text": "Through war and strife, America's endured much and we will endure here and we will prevail again, and we'll prevail now.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052945", "text": "The second action addresses the root causes of our migration to our southern border, and the third action.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000052946", "text": "And I will drive new investment and research and innovation and our workforce, investing in training, university partnerships that are going to lead to new technologies and new solutions.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052947", "text": "While also addressing the threat of inflation that it opposes to our families and to our economy.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000052948", "text": "As economies all across the world, come back from this pandemic, America's leading the way.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052949", "text": "The pandemic, however, brought an immediate and painful recession.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052950", "text": "The unprecedented reopening of the economy, along with the continuing effects of the pandemic led to supply and demand and balances, bottlenecks, and a burst of inflation.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052951", "text": "We came out of that recession with the longest spurt of economic growth in any administration in American history.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000052952", "text": "My job right now, because it's on a scale where I don't know if I'm going to get to go back to work, my biggest concern is probably my pension.", "issue": "pension"}
{"id": "0000052953", "text": "My concern would be for unemployment, for job security, as far as going back to work and health insurance and just any type of relief package for actual entertainment workers.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000052954", "text": "One of my greatest concerns has been the failure to deal with COVID to begin with.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000052955", "text": "So funding for broadband, support for building out that infrastructure is critical to continued growth of telemedicine services.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052956", "text": "Who knows in war where every tank, plane, rocket, every piece of equipment is so you know where to send it where it's most needed.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052957", "text": "Slow to order the government to buy food from farmers and send that food to food banks.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000052958", "text": "And we've been struggling way before the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052959", "text": "Vice president, I can't overturn systemic racism that black Americans face every day.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000052960", "text": "The pandemic slammed the states and we know what's going on.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052961", "text": "Build a modern energy grid that we can withstand storms and carry renewable energy across America, make high-speed internet affordable and available to everywhere in America.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000052962", "text": "We're going to make the largest investment in public transit in American history, and we're going to make the most important investments in our rail since their creation of Amtrak 50 years ago.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052963", "text": "Earlier this year Moody's on Wall Street projected at the investments in these bills will bring us higher GDP and additional 2 million jobs per year in lower unemployment.", "issue": "GDP"}
{"id": "0000052964", "text": "The weapons of war and the nature of injuries they inflict don't differentiate based on race.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000052965", "text": "It includes the most significant investment to tackle the climate crisis in history.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052966", "text": "Investments in infrastructure are critical to workers like me, my brothers and sisters in other industries, and I was so proud to join them to help pass this bill you have signed today, President Biden.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052967", "text": "You know, Mr. President, I've been working on infrastructure since I was elected as mayor in 2010.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052968", "text": "And our bill makes significant investments in tribal communities' infrastructure, including all necessary funding to complete authorized Indian water rights settlements.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052969", "text": "The bipartisan process that resulted in this historic investment began with a meeting about eight months ago with my colleague, Senator Sinema, whose persistence was absolutely key to us being here today.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052970", "text": "It'll make us more competitive against countries like China, who are investing heavily in infrastructure, much more than we have been.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000052971", "text": "Inflation, of course, is caused when demand supply.", "issue": "Inflation"}
{"id": "0000052972", "text": "It makes the most significant investment in passenger rail in the past 50 years and in public transit ever.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052973", "text": "That's American democracy and I'm going to be signing a law that is truly consequential because we were made our democracy delivered for the American people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052974", "text": "His own director of CDC said while we're waiting for a vaccine, even if we had a vaccine, this will prevent more deaths between now and the end of January than a vaccine would.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000052975", "text": "With the same significant disease that your mom had, stage four glioblastoma.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000052976", "text": "And then when we went to NATO, I think it was the same thing.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000052977", "text": "These cuts will affect education, healthcare, sanitation, reduced transit services, and operating hours at government offices like the DMV and threaten public safety like closing fire stations and emergency responders.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000052978", "text": "The absence of the right kind of food, the absence of making sure they lived in areas where you could breathe the air, where you could drink the water.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000052979", "text": "Latino families have affordable housing and a path to home ownership is critical to build wealth.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000052980", "text": "And our Commander-in-Chief, who said he's declared war on the virus has already waved the white flag.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052981", "text": "Double the number of school counselors and psychologists to help kids cope with the trauma this pandemic had caused and other traumas they're worried about.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052982", "text": "Like their fellow brothers and sisters in arms who died defending our vision and our values and the struggle against terrorism, of the fallen this day are part of a great noble company of American heroes.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000052983", "text": "You have said leaving Afghanistan is in the national- ... you have said leaving Afghanistan is in the national interest of the United States.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000052984", "text": "Environmental cleanup, and making infrastructure more resilient.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000052985", "text": "During remote learning and during the pandemic last year, we saw too many families forced to sit, literally sit, in their vehicles in a fast food parking lot.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052986", "text": "We have the benefit of significantly reducing pollution from vehicles on our roads.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000052987", "text": "Look, this bill, I believe, will make the most important investment in public transit in American history.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000052988", "text": "And so I think it's a matter of listening, it's part of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052989", "text": "American democracy works because America makes it work at a local level.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052990", "text": "You know, respecting the will of the people is at the heart of our democracy, even we find those results hard to accept.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052991", "text": "You know, in this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052992", "text": "As you know, the assault on Burma's transition to democracy remains an issue of deep bipartisan concern.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000052993", "text": "Today, I again call on the Burmese military to immediately release the democratic political leaders and activists and they're now detaining including Aung San Suu Kyi and also Win Myint, the president.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000052994", "text": "Our colleagues here have been working around the clock throughout the pandemic to ensure a continuous supply of critical hospital medicines as well, of course, as to produce and ship Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052995", "text": "This administration is going to be guided by science to save lives and to make lives better.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000052996", "text": "The Governor's been on the front lines of this pandemic as well for a long time, and I think she's doing an incredible job under very difficult circumstances.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000052997", "text": "And by the way, they make up half the employment in America.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000052998", "text": "Some of our community members are patients inflicted with the virus while some are the first responders and physicians treating COVID-19 patients.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000052999", "text": "We must trust science and reason over conjecture and harmful instinct, real information over conspiracy theories.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053000", "text": "From 1948, after the war to 1979, productivity in America increased by more than 100%, while the pay for American workers grew by nearly 100%.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053001", "text": "Because here's the deal, the fight against COVID won't be won in January alone.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053002", "text": "And by the way, in the meantime, I'm going to make sure that the vaccine is both free and available, and that any follow up on the vaccine is free and available that relates to any health complications from it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053003", "text": "The pandemic only made the divisions so much worse and more obvious.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053004", "text": "Our adversaries are worried about us building this critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053005", "text": "Historically, infrastructure had been a bipartisan undertaking, many times led by Republicans.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053006", "text": "And this administration will follow the science to deliver more breakthroughs.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053007", "text": "The FDA will decide on emergency use authorization of a vaccine based on science, not due to any political pressure from me or anyone else.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053008", "text": "If, if the FDA approves the use of this new vaccine, we have a plan to roll it out as quickly as Johnson & Johnson can make it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053009", "text": "We also sent millions of vaccines to thousands of local pharmacies all across America to make it easier for folks to get the vaccine shot like they would their flu shot.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053010", "text": "Because of isolation, violence against women is up, abuse of children is up and the need for mental health problems to deal with mental health problem, the consequence of them is up as a consequence of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053011", "text": "It does that by making healthcare more affordable.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053012", "text": "We have experienced loss of property, loss of infrastructure, COVID-19 and natural disasters have dealt major blows to this community.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053013", "text": "When I think about the threats of hurricanes and global warming and the poor condition of our economy, as it relates particularly to infrastructure, I think of one thing.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053014", "text": "Let me close with this, infrastructure has historically been a bipartisan undertaking, and there's no reason it shouldn't be that way again, as the mayor is evidence of and others are.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053015", "text": "And again, remember, the vaccine, most of the people taking the vaccine, a vast, significant number, require two shots, and they're average of three weeks apart.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053016", "text": "Child poverty will be cut in half as a consequence of what's in this Recovery Act.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053017", "text": "You see, the strength of democracy is the rule of law.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053018", "text": "The strength of democracy is the principle that everyone should be treated equally, that elections should be free and fair, that corruption should be given no quarter.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053019", "text": "And the fragility of democracy is this, that if we are not vigilant, if we do not defend it, democracy simply will not stand.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053020", "text": "Madam Vice President, my fellow Americans, to state the obvious, one year ago today in this sacred place, democracy was attacked, simply attacked.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053021", "text": "The constitution, our constitution, faced the gravest of threats.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053022", "text": "They weren't looking to save the cause of America, they were looking to subvert the constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053023", "text": "Because if we have a shared belief in democracy, then anything is possible.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053024", "text": "We're engaged anew in a struggle between democracy and autocracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053025", "text": "Believe me, I know how difficult democracy is and I'm crystal clear about the threats America faces.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053026", "text": "I know just how critical infrastructure is to every Michigander.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053027", "text": "We're going to make the largest investment in public transit in American history, and we're going to make the most important investment in our rail system since the creation of Amtrak 50 years ago.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053028", "text": "She pointed out that China made a major investment in steel plants beginning about 20 years ago.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053029", "text": "Most of the major metropolitan areas of America, you can't afford the housing and it helps to meet the moment on climate change as well.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000053030", "text": "They think democracy is not a joke.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053031", "text": "A key plank of our build back better recovery plan is building a modern resilient climate infrastructure and clean energy future that will create millions of good paying union jobs, not seven, eight, 10, $12 an hour, but prevailing wage and benefits.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053032", "text": "We think of renewable energy, we see American manufacturing, American workers racing to lead the global market.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000053033", "text": "We see farmers making American agriculture first in the world to achieve net zero emissions and gaining new sources of income in the process.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000053034", "text": "And I want to parenthetically thank the secretary of agriculture for helping to put together that program during the campaign.", "issue": "agriculture"}
{"id": "0000053035", "text": "Finally, as with our fight against COVID-19, we will listen to the science and protect the integrity of our federal response to the climate crisis.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053036", "text": "This next one to restoring trust in government through science and integrity and evidence-based policymaking.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053037", "text": "That in this moment of crisis with interest rates as low as they are, historic lows, it is smart fiscal investment, including deficit spending, and they're more urgent than ever.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053038", "text": "And today, we're announcing a major step forward, two of the largest healthcare and pharmaceutical companies in the world, that are usually competitors, are working together on the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053039", "text": "When we came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053040", "text": "We've sent millions of vaccines to over 7, 000 pharmacies, to make it easier for folks to get their COVID-19 vaccine shot, like they would their flu shot.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053041", "text": "Who can administer the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053042", "text": "That they make decisions strictly based on science and healthcare alone.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053043", "text": "As the Delta wave has made all the more clear, to exit this pandemic, inventing lifesaving vaccines isn't enough.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053044", "text": "First thing I did when I was sworn into office back on January 20th is I bought enough vaccine right off the bat to vaccinate every single American.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053045", "text": "During this pandemic, we've seen just how important being in school is for families and for our country.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053046", "text": "That was separated from a family member at the border under the last administration.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053047", "text": "Look, as my chief of staff, Ron Klain would say, who handled Ebola, the vaccine is important.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053048", "text": "And also on the economic front, as we fight the pandemic, world trade continues.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053049", "text": "My administration is also committed to safeguarding our critical infrastructure, much of which is privately owned and managed like Colonial.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053050", "text": "In addition to companies stepping up, we need to invest to safeguard our critical infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053051", "text": "This one time investment is a real answer to a real problem where our economy is facing right now.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053052", "text": "They lost their jobs to a virus and to a government that bungled its response to the crisis and failed to protect them.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053053", "text": "It will take the pressure off of inflation, give a boost to our workforce, which leads to lower prices in the years ahead.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000053054", "text": "Effectively your administration is naming and shaming China, but no sanctions.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053055", "text": "And yes, forcing us to confront systemic racism and white supremacy.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053056", "text": "The last executive order is condemning and combating racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053057", "text": "We will not hesitate to raise the cost on Russia and defend our vital interest in our people.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000053058", "text": "We're also stepping up our diplomacy to end the war in Yemen, a war which has created humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053059", "text": "We've restored our commitment to science and to create policies grounded in facts and evidence.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053060", "text": "Highways weren't traditional infrastructure until we allowed ourselves to imagine that roads could connect our nation across state lines.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053061", "text": "The technology, quantum computing, investing significant amounts of money in dealing with cancer and Alzheimer's.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000053062", "text": "Of course, building the infrastructure of tomorrow requires major investments today.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053063", "text": "Hard working women and men who have struggled through this pandemic, never given up and are determined to get the country back on track as well as their families.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053064", "text": "And it won't raise a penny tax on a family making less than $400, 000 a year, no federal tax, no addition.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000053065", "text": "The American people have been promised action infrastructure for decades.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053066", "text": "You'd said that you could fight against corruption in the core of your national security policies.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000053067", "text": "Apr 15, 2021 President Joe Biden spoke about relations with Russia after issuing sanctions on the country on April 15, 2021.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000053068", "text": "Where there's an interest in the United States to work with Russia, we should and we will.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000053069", "text": "And so, threats that are more geographically dispersed than they were 20 years ago are going to continue to require vigilance.", "issue": "vigilance"}
{"id": "0000053070", "text": "More people than killed in the United States of America because of COVID than in every single major war we fought.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053071", "text": "I know who runs the military, chief master sergeants.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053072", "text": "The U.S. and U.K. are both founding members of NATO, the strongest military and political alliance in the history of the world, and that's not hyperbole.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000053073", "text": "We're not seeking conflict with Russia, we want a stable, predictable relationship.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000053074", "text": "Our democracy has never been perfect, never been perfect, but Americans of all races, religions, sexual orientation, immigrants, Native Americans, all have spilled their blood to defend the values that we talk about.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053075", "text": "We wouldn't have the wage raised in some states to $15.00 an hour which you guys make more than without the union movement.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000053076", "text": "And also, our senior leadership will have their compensation connected to the progress they meet in meeting our diversity goals.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000053077", "text": "When it comes to fighting this pandemic, we have to be crystal clear.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053078", "text": "Under the Biden administration, we're going to get weapons of war and high capacity magazines out of our communities.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053079", "text": "But just because we are dealing with the pandemic does not mean that all other issues important to our communities disappear.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053080", "text": "As we face a virus that's struck every community but hit us, Latino families and people of color, with a devastating force.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053081", "text": "We're not done fighting this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053082", "text": "Just as in World War II, America was the arsenal of democracy, in the battle against COVID-19 pandemic, our nation is going to be the arsenal of vaccines for the rest of the world.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053083", "text": "Just as democracies led the world in the darkness of World War II, democracy will lead the world out of this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053084", "text": "Just four weeks ago, the Department of Defense required vaccinations for the military and already 92% of our active duty service members are vaccinated.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053085", "text": "It's showing how American science and technology, American business and academia, and our government can all work together.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053086", "text": "And we've all seen the news about Johnson & Johnson vaccine today, just the third safe, effective vaccine and they've approved it today.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053087", "text": "Together, we're making healthcare a right, not a privilege in this nation.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053088", "text": "We need to work together to confront the epidemic of gun violence.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000053089", "text": "Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053090", "text": "It was never supposed to be creating a unified centralized democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053091", "text": "Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been, preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053092", "text": "American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war, and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053093", "text": "The political leaders of Afghanistan were unable to come together for the good of their people, unable to negotiate for the future of their country when the chips were down.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053094", "text": "They would never have done so while US troops remained in Afghanistan, bearing the brunt of the fighting for them.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053095", "text": "We talked about how Afghanistan should prepare to fight their civil wars after the US military departed.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053096", "text": "To clean up the corruption in government so the government could function for the Afghan people.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000053097", "text": "Of doubling down on a civil war in a foreign country, of attempting to remake a country through the endless military deployments of US forces.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053098", "text": "I've worked in these issues as long as anyone, I've been throughout Afghanistan during this war, while the war was going on from Kabul to Kandahar to the Kunar Valley.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053099", "text": "This bipartisan agreement represents the largest investment in public transit in American history.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053100", "text": "Mar 12, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden gave a speech today on the coronavirus pandemic, or COVID-19.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053101", "text": "We have to confront a coronavirus everywhere.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053102", "text": "Month after month, as other leaders in other countries took the necessary steps to get the virus under control, Donald Trump failed us.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053103", "text": "Fifth, while the pandemic rages on and as we increase the supply, distribution and administration of the vaccine we have to remain vigilant.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053104", "text": "The threat of a pandemic we told them was coming.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053105", "text": "I think because of this pandemic, everyone has renewed appreciation for just how hard our teachers work, how important their job is.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053106", "text": "The process of establishing priority groups is driven by science, but the problem is the implementation has been too rigid and confusing.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053107", "text": "Our administration will lead with science and scientist.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053108", "text": "The FDA whose decisions are based on science and science alone, speaking directly to you.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053109", "text": "We'll continue to support the government of Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053110", "text": "Rather than return to war the Taliban, we have to focus on the challenges that are in front of us.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053111", "text": "In 2014, NATO issued a declaration affirming that Afghan security forces would from that point on have full responsibility for the country's security by the end of that year.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000053112", "text": "We already have service members doing their duty in Afghanistan today whose parents served in the same war.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053113", "text": "War in Afghanistan was never meant to be a multi-generational undertaking.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053114", "text": "We went to war with clear goals.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053115", "text": "The Russian government has perpetrated cyber attacks against Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053116", "text": "Putin chose this war and now he and his country will bear the consequences.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053117", "text": "Although we provided over $650 million in defensive assistance to Ukraine just this last year, let me say it again, our forces are not and will not be engaged in the conflict with Russia in Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053118", "text": "Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine, but to defend our NATO allies and reassure those allies in the East.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053119", "text": "I spoke last night to President Zelesnkyy of Ukraine and I assured him that the United States together with our allies and partners in Europe will support the Ukrainian people as they defend their country.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053120", "text": "Aug 31, 2021 President Joe Biden gave remarks on the end of the war in Afghanistan and the final withdrawal of U.S. troops on August 31, 2021.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053121", "text": "Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053122", "text": "In April, I made a decision to end this war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053123", "text": "I was not going to extend this forever war and I was not extending a forever exit.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053124", "text": "To make sure Afghanistan can never be used again to launch an attack on our homeland.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053125", "text": "The terror threat has metastasized across the world, well beyond Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053126", "text": "But I also know that the threat from terrorism continues in its pernicious and evil nature.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000053127", "text": "We will maintain the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and other countries.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053128", "text": "We just don't need to fight a ground war to do it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053129", "text": "We're engaged in a serious competition with China.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053130", "text": "We can do both, fight terrorism and take on new threats that are here now, and will continue to be here in the future.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000053131", "text": "After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, I refuse to send another generation of America's sons and daughters to fight a war should have ended long ago.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053132", "text": "I refuse to continue to war that was no longer in the service of the vital national interest of our people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053133", "text": "It's time to end the war in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053134", "text": "And Lily, thanks for bringing us together and for the energy and leadership you've brought this indispensable organization.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000053135", "text": "So I'm making sure educators salary don't get cut and educators don't get fired.", "issue": "salary"}
{"id": "0000053136", "text": "When we need investment in our small businesses, when people who proclaim to be capitalists seem to only believe in capitalism for themselves.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053137", "text": "I'm ready to stand up for affordable healthcare, stand up for a livable wage, stand up for voting rights and equal rights, stand up in this defining moment in American history.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053138", "text": "And as someone who's family and friends has been affected by this pandemic that's very important to me.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053139", "text": "It's advocating for better healthcare, a living wage for working people, a fair and more equal justice system and a fighting chance for all Georgians.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053140", "text": "Another recent report from the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance noted more than half of all democracies have experienced a decline in at least one aspect of their democracy over the last 10 years, including the United States.", "issue": "Democracy"}
{"id": "0000053141", "text": "My late friend, Congressman John Lewis, was a great champion of American democracy and for civil rights around the world, learning from and gaining inspiration from other great leaders like Gandhi and Mandela.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053142", "text": "And we'll fight this variant with science and speed, not chaos and confusion.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053143", "text": "Families are anxious about COVID, the economy, the cost of living, and the way to relieve that anxiety is with consistent, determined, focused action.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053144", "text": "States set the priorities for who gets the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053145", "text": "Melanie actually contracted COVID herself last March and has now been vaccinated, and she's been administering vaccines to people in her community.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053146", "text": "But I got my second vaccine February 5 and I just make sure I tell everybody that it was a wonderful experience.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053147", "text": "We're an administration that thinks science matters.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053148", "text": "I just think this is about the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053149", "text": "So, our top priority as you saw in the campaign and certainly as you've seen throughout the transition is following the science and keeping the safety of our team top of mind.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053150", "text": "We need to remember we're war with the virus, not with one another, not with each other.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053151", "text": "The federal government has vast powers to combat the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053152", "text": "And they should never again in this country deny anyone a livable wage like many are being denied.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000053153", "text": "This virus has made all too clear the absolute necessity of making sure everyone, everyone, can access affordable, high quality healthcare.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053154", "text": "Testing, rapid results, treatment, and ultimately access to a vaccine for COVID-19 should be available to everyone, and I mean everyone, free of cost.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053155", "text": "It's a chance to change the institutional racism that exists and make real progress, and everybody benefits, not just the immigrant community.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053156", "text": "Full respect for essential workers during this pandemic, and I chair the Immigration Subcommittee in the Judiciary Committee.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053157", "text": "Last week on the White House lawn, President Trump invited China to get engaged in deciding our election and who our nominee would be.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053158", "text": "Vice President, in addition to this pandemic we're all facing, there's a great fight we've now been forced to meet head on in our communities, across the country.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053159", "text": "That's what brings employment.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000053160", "text": "We're going to make four years of public education, two years of community college free for families making less than under 25 grand.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053161", "text": "His response during the deadly pandemic is to try to take your healthcare away by asking the Supreme Court to strike the Affordable Care Act in its entirety.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053162", "text": "Now, because of COVID, lung scarring or heart problems is a consequence of having survived COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053163", "text": "Already, we have members of our military whose parents fought in Afghanistan 20 years ago.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053164", "text": "I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053165", "text": "No, but I trust the capacity of the Afghan military who was better trained, better equipped, and more competent in terms of conducting war.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053166", "text": "And the likelihood there's going to be one unified government in Afghanistan controlling the whole country is highly unlikely.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053167", "text": "But we have talked to your own top general in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053168", "text": "It's up to the people of Afghanistan to decide on what government they want, not us to impose the government on them.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053169", "text": "The pandemic calamity, deepening recession, and racial outrage in the country are stirring energy, in our communities that's diverse and growing.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000053170", "text": "On top of this, the coronavirus has incited intense anti-Asian xenophobia and hate crimes over the past few months that have threatened the safety of our community.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053171", "text": "I am voting for democracy and for the candidate that is best able to make true the promise of America.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053172", "text": "At the same time, during a pandemic, Donald Trump is telling his administration to slow down testing , ending federal funding for test sites.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053173", "text": "We secured long overdue compensation for proud Filipino veterans of World War II, and we appointed more AAPI judges to the bench than every administration in U.S. history combined.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000053174", "text": "Now this pandemic has brought out the best in so many people, doctors, nurses, first responders, grocery clerks, delivery people, caregivers, heroic soldiers in the war against the virus.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053175", "text": "This is a war he talks about, a war against this virus, yet he's AWOL, he does not take any responsibility.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053176", "text": "Under the previous administration, from 2012 to 2016, every year the threats coming from North Korea became more and more bellicose.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000053177", "text": "And if this warning was not heeded then the consequences to North Korea would be catastrophic.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000053178", "text": "US department of education temporarily delayed student loan repayment and held interest rates to zero.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053179", "text": "What it did was made the prices of housing go up by a $100, 000.", "issue": "housing"}
{"id": "0000053180", "text": "As I said in my address to the joint session of Congress, according to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today, not Isis, not Al-Qaeda, white supremacists.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000053181", "text": "Ukraine and the United States have a similar value system and the strong commitment to the fulfillment of a promise that we hope all will come forward, and that is a Europe whole, free, and at peace.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053182", "text": "Because for eight years in a row, as you know, we've had this war in the Ukrainian Donbas and we have lost 15, 000 of our best people.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053183", "text": "We've ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053184", "text": "To fight this pandemic, we need a collective act of science and political will.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053185", "text": "And my administration's working closely with our Congress to make critical investments in green infrastructure and electric vehicles will help us lock in progress at home toward our climate goals.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053186", "text": "We will pursue new rules of global trade and economic growth to strive a level of playing field.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000053187", "text": "Those who commit acts of terrorism against us will continue to find a determined enemy in the United States.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000053188", "text": "Yesterday Vladimir Putin recognized two regions of Ukraine as independent states, and he bizarrely asserted that these regions are no longer part of Ukraine and they're sovereign territory.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053189", "text": "We have no intention of fighting Russia.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000053190", "text": "And as I said, Russian forces remain positioned in Belarus to attack Ukraine from the north, including war planes and offensive missile systems.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053191", "text": "Further Russian assault in Ukraine remains a severe threat in the days ahead.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053192", "text": "He indirectly threatened territorial formally held by Russia, including nations that today are thriving democracies and members of NATO.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000053193", "text": "He explicitly threatened war unless his extreme demands were met.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053194", "text": "Science has made clear that things may get worse as new variants of this virus spread.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000053195", "text": "If the ailment you have is caused by your exposure to Agent Orange that you get treatment.", "issue": "ailment"}
{"id": "0000053196", "text": "Military spouse employment, done right, impacts all of the other issues that we'll talk about here today.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000053197", "text": "President Barack Obama and I got into office, is that we inherited the most significant recession, short of a depression in American history.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000053198", "text": "I am currently working with a veteran who's a member of my congregation.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000053199", "text": "Just a short example of one of our many veteran members, a Vietnam vet decided to go back to school.", "issue": "vet"}
{"id": "0000053200", "text": "The idea that in the middle of a pandemic, the worst thing since the great flu back in the turn of the century, where so many people died worldwide, is that people are figuring out that we're all in this together.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053201", "text": "We need a president who will use war as a last resort and not use the military as a personal security force.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053202", "text": "Like every American I'm happy that millions of American workers are back on payrolls and this historic unemployment we still face has at least come down a bit more.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000053203", "text": "Yesterday he reiterated his belief that the virus was going to disappear.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053204", "text": "He touted the numbers for Latino unemployment, but those numbers are still more than three times higher than they were before the crisis started.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000053205", "text": "His failure to take quick action made this pandemic more costly for American people in every way, in lives lost, in economic impact and economic toll of those living with so much doubt and uncertainty.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053206", "text": "Other countries have figured out how to get the virus under control and reopened their economies and put their people safely back to work.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053207", "text": "I think the pandemic has given some real opportunity to make sure that when someone goes to work they're safe.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053208", "text": "And if we learn anything from this miserable COVID virus, I hope we learn a new respect for a lot of the folks who are doing the work in this country.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053209", "text": "Back during the H1N1 epidemic, we had OSHA, Occupational Safety Operation, that's supposed to be available all across these workplaces, and the CDC, the Center for Disease Control.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000053210", "text": "We either deal with the virus or we deal with unemployment and the economy.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053211", "text": "Because of COVID we want to make sure people are out of their shelters as quickly as they can because of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053212", "text": "They voted to make healthcare a right, not a privilege.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053213", "text": "In fact, the fact that so many election officials across the country made it easier and safer for them to be able to vote in the middle of a pandemic is remarkable.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053214", "text": "First by the pandemic, then by a desperate attempt to deny the reality of the results of the election.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053215", "text": "We're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053216", "text": "In that battle the people voted, democracy prevailed, our Constitution held.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053217", "text": "And I should just say this with due respect to those that don't believe in science, you got to believe your own damn eyes.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053218", "text": "Let me just ask you though, Johnson & Johnson could be authorized, a new vaccine from them could be authorized in a couple weeks.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053219", "text": "But here's the thing, if you look back over the last 40 years as minimum wages increased the end result of net employment hasn't changed.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000053220", "text": "But thirdly, I think we have to deal with systemic racism that exists throughout society.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053221", "text": "Chinese leaders, if you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven't been unified at home.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053222", "text": "I think science matters.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053223", "text": "We met a woman named Rosie Torres who runs an organization named Burn Pit 360.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053224", "text": "I was diagnosed with war lung disease and a toxic brain injury.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053225", "text": "We go to war to serve our country knowing the uncertainty of death or injury.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053226", "text": "None of us return from war with the hopes of losing our careers, our homes, our families.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053227", "text": "We always have money for war, we never have money for the war fighter, and it's unacceptable.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053228", "text": "We didn't go to war to come home to die by something that our government did to us.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053229", "text": "What we need is a new nationalism, a new agenda to make the rule of the people real in this country, and give the people back.", "issue": "nationalism"}
{"id": "0000053230", "text": "Canada and the United States have the longest unmilitarized border in the world, and it is very much in both of our interests for it to remain that way.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053231", "text": "As I spoke about yesterday, we will be participating in international efforts to fight this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053232", "text": "This virus will possibly face resurgences even once we've handled it in Canada and in many countries.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053233", "text": "Joe will bring us together to end this pandemic, and make sure that we are prepared for the next one.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053234", "text": "As we emerge from the pandemic, I believe that we are at the start of a new era.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053235", "text": "And we're talking about healthcare, an issue that is as personal as it is important.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053236", "text": "Sadly, that war on poverty was short lived, but there were some important components which lasted, including community health centers.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053237", "text": "The president of the United States who is also, again, the commander in chief, responded, Science doesn't know.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000053238", "text": "We're going to fight for their access to healthcare, too.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053239", "text": "We've got to fight systemic racism.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053240", "text": "So Kamala Harris represents a strong and astute woman, who in the midst of confusion brings clarity.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053241", "text": "Well, science does know Mr. President and science knows so much that the leading science publication has in the worst job for President of the United States.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053242", "text": "And as a former attorney general, I was elected as only the second black woman, I think, in the history of our country to be elected and attorney general of any state.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053243", "text": "We believe in our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053244", "text": "We know that America's democracy will always be as strong as we the people are in our willingness to fight for those ideals.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053245", "text": "When people were peacefully protesting racial injustice in America, a woman was killed.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053246", "text": "And we know that the strength of our democracy is in the strength of the people and that the people are prepared to fight for their country based on our love of our country.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053247", "text": "Two caused by the pandemic, a public health crisis and an economic crisis.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053248", "text": "America's democracy is as strong as our willingness to fight for it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053249", "text": "We are prepared to fight for our democracy and the integrity of our democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053250", "text": "Working two jobs yet receiving no healthcare because private insurance system makes it so we are dependent on the generosity of our employers.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053251", "text": "When this administration has orphaned 545 children because of a policy that has been about separating children from their parents at the border, everything is at stake.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053252", "text": "Let's deal with healthcare from the neck up.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053253", "text": "Whether we're going to embrace science and deal with this change in climate.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053254", "text": "Because here's the thing, our democracy is always going to be as strong as our willingness to fight for it.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053255", "text": "And of course, millions of children as a result of all of that fell into poverty, on top of the children who already were in poverty before the pandemic.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053256", "text": "While the pandemic forged new pathways for using technology and providing real-time biofeedback, optimization requires reliable broadband infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053257", "text": "And so yes, I think that the pandemic has enhanced our reliance on technology, and so now we have to be able to depend on that technology.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053258", "text": "Many mornings throughout this pandemic, my family and I had to decide who got priority to use the internet.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053259", "text": "And for him to be able to then learn from all different perspectives, all different walks of life on the internet and bring that to our farm, will do nothing but benefit our community, our state and our nation.", "issue": "farm"}
{"id": "0000053260", "text": "And this town had some of the worst air pollution in the state and the community was demanding action.", "issue": "pollution"}
{"id": "0000053261", "text": "World leaders pledged to unite behind the principles of democracy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053262", "text": "When women are heard, whether that is in the courtroom, in the workplace, and the halls of government or at the ballot box, democracy is more complete.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053263", "text": "Our results are more impactful because democracy is strongest because our world is stronger when everyone participates.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053264", "text": "The President and I agreed to continue our work to manage migration at Guatemala's Northern and Southern borders.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000053265", "text": "Second, on economic development, the President and I also discussed the root causes of migration, in particular the lack of economic opportunity for many people here in Guatemala.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000053266", "text": "The President and I discussed the importance of anti-corruption and the importance of an independent judiciary.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000053267", "text": "If we are truly to have and fight for democracies, especially in a world where increasingly they are under attack, one essential ingredient of our priorities must be to fight corruption.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000053268", "text": "If we are to be effective, if we are to be true to our principles, we must root out corruption wherever it exists, and that is one of our highest priorities for that reason.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000053269", "text": "So we need to fight poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053270", "text": "We are in an honest fight against corruption, but corruption understood as an action which is multidimensional.", "issue": "corruption"}
{"id": "0000053271", "text": "Unfortunately, for decades, the federal government has recognized that Indian country has had substandard infrastructure in every sector.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053272", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has not only made these needs clear.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053273", "text": "Including manufacturing, including contractors and construction companies, including all of those businesses that will benefit from an investment in America's infrastructure, be that roads or bridges.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053274", "text": "I see this investment as a down payment on what we need to restore our MDIs and to support our CDFIs.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053275", "text": "Seniors, and people with disabilities who have already been disproportionately impacted by the deadly pandemic should not be forced to abandon their home services for groups settings, where there are far higher risks of illness and death.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053276", "text": "Our Build Back Better Act represents the single largest investment to address maternal mortality and morbidity in our nation ever.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053277", "text": "We want to develop our nation as a democracy, as a country where freedom and the respect for human rights and the rule of law are paramount to our system of governance.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053278", "text": "So that's the investment that we have made, and it is an investment that you have been very supportive of.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053279", "text": "This will be the first Black woman running for president.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053280", "text": "Back in early March, the pandemic forced so many colleges and universities to pivot and to make drastic changes in our traditional modalities of delivering instructions.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053281", "text": "So I think we all know that the pandemic has really impacted us in ways beyond what we could even phantom.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053282", "text": "And then, I stand as the first black woman to serve as the executive director for Faith in Florida, which we are a statewide organization where we organize multi-faith, multi-racial clergy around racial and economic justice.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053283", "text": "What ended up happening is because of a so-called trade war with China, America lost 300, 000 manufacturing jobs.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053284", "text": "So now with regard to China, Susan first and foremost, China is to blame for the coronavirus and President Trump is not happy about it.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053285", "text": "NATO is now contributing more to our common defense than ever before thanks to President Trump's leadership.", "issue": "NATO"}
{"id": "0000053286", "text": "But Joe Biden would hold Russia to account for any threat to our nation security or to our troops who are sacrificing their lives for the sake of our democracy and our safety.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000053287", "text": "We believe in the American people, we believe in our democracy, and here's what I'd like to say to everybody.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053288", "text": "And our administration has focused on the essentials of opportunity and that's education, it's healthcare, it's the environment, but also a fair economy.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053289", "text": "Instead of preparing for a virus that he knew would lead to a pandemic, President Trump lied.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053290", "text": "And as soon as there's a safe and effective vaccine, he'll make sure that it's available to everyone, everywhere, no matter where you live or how much you can pay.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053291", "text": "And still, Native Americans are more likely to live in poverty, to be unemployed and often struggle to get quality health care and to find affordable housing.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053292", "text": "This persistent inequity, this persistent injustice is not right, and the pandemic has only made it worse.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053293", "text": "Our Infrastructure and Jobs Act and our Build Back Better agenda represent the largest investment in Indian country in our history, more than a point of pride.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053294", "text": "On the issue of Belarus and what is happening at the border with Poland, we are very concerned about that and closely paying attention to it, and the Yevtushenko regime, I believe, is engaged in very troubling activity.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053295", "text": "The thing about this pandemic is that it has in many ways been an accelerator in that it made worse what was bad to start with in terms of who was getting resources, who was having access to resources or not.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053296", "text": "In terms of COVID, it's really important to understand that in this election the contrast is as follows.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053297", "text": "You all know we were at war in Afghanistan for 20 long years.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053298", "text": "Many members of our military gave their lives in Afghanistan, as did many from our allies and partners.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053299", "text": "Wages are up, employment is up, consumer demand is up; and we believe that our growth should not stop at the water's edge, that it can also, and it will also, benefit our partners.", "issue": "employment"}
{"id": "0000053300", "text": "Galloway has a long history of providing healthcare in the underserved populations in our state and Dr. Galloway is the President of the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Caucus of the North Carolina Democratic Party.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053301", "text": "She did not make a living wage.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000053302", "text": "When I say healthcare, I mean healthcare, which includes the visits, includes lab work, x-rays, medications.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053303", "text": "So we know that they are struggling because of social isolation, people cannot go in and visit because of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053304", "text": "At its root, I believe that infrastructure is about all the support systems that make our country work.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053305", "text": "The effects of the virus have caused us to change our lives in several ways.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053306", "text": "The pandemic has made this crisis worse and forced many childcare providers to close.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053307", "text": "And before I talk about this investment, the president has asked me to update you on the implementation of the plan.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053308", "text": "The American Rescue Plan is also making healthcare more affordable by reducing the cost of coverage for nine million people who are currently receiving financial assistance.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053309", "text": "Trump telling us not to worry that the virus will disappear that a miracle is coming.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053310", "text": "Manufacture the medical supplies and protective equipment we need and make them right here in America, so we're never again at the mercy of China and other foreign countries to protect our own people.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053311", "text": "Before the virus hit, Trump made our country vulnerable.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053312", "text": "It's a decision that could take away healthcare for 20 million Americans.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053313", "text": "As Attorney General of California I defended your right to healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053314", "text": "Judge Barrett has a long record of opposing abortion and reproductive rights.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000053315", "text": "For example, court decisions can determine your ability to earn a living wage, to receive equal pay for equal work, or collectively bargain for your rights at work.", "issue": "wage"}
{"id": "0000053316", "text": "The United States ambassador to the United Nations is working within the UN to support their humanitarian response plan.", "issue": "UN"}
{"id": "0000053317", "text": "In our democracy, in every democracy, a representative government is foundational, and the right to vote is fundamental.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053318", "text": "And so, we are equally committed to combating threats to democracy wherever they exist, threats, such as corruption, which corrodes public trust, fuels inequality, and can destabilize nations and entire regions.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053319", "text": "And I mentioned my belief that democracy is marked by both its strength and its fragility.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053320", "text": "Though we grew up in different times and places under very different circumstances, the importance of democracy in our own lives was, and remains clear.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053321", "text": "As we address the present threats to democracy, as we work to prove its value and vitality in this new era, as leaders of our world, we must all remember that democracy is neither an abstract concept nor a static state.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053322", "text": "And the Marine Corps and the Navy are leading on making the connection between the pandemic and medical readiness of our fighting forces for the future.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053323", "text": "Again, everybody, that was Vice President Kamala Harris making history today by being the first woman to deliver the commencement speech in the Naval Academy's 175- Transcribe Your Own Content Try Rev and save time transcribing, captioning, and subtitling.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053324", "text": "And this election is about addressing systemic racism, not giving marching orders to white supremacist groups.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053325", "text": "It's about fighting for healthcare.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053326", "text": "Yes, we can do what is necessary to bring healthcare to everybody because we believe access to healthcare should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053327", "text": "The change we see coming when we know here in Nevada, we have the highest unemployment of any state in the country.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000053328", "text": "Jim Banks, a Navy veteran who served in Afghanistan, he serves on HASC, chair of the largest caucus of the Republican Conference, as a leader of a standing committee.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053329", "text": "Think for one moment, Jim Banks is a Naval officer, he defended his nation, served in Afghanistan, elected by his peers to the largest conference in the committee.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053330", "text": "Continue to fund a civil war in Yemen.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053331", "text": "I support aid for Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053332", "text": "I do not support what your country has done to Ukraine.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053333", "text": "One minister was once convicted of inciting racism and supporting terrorism.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053334", "text": "But faced with a national security and credibility crisis in Afghanistan, they have done nothing to plan to address it.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053335", "text": "And if you're a veteran, a service member who served in Afghanistan and you're feeling this, reach out to this veteran crisis hotline, which is available.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053336", "text": "If you think Afghanistan is far away, understand what's happened to our borders today.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053337", "text": "So not only should we make sure every American is taken out of Afghanistan, we should secure our borders and we should do it today.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053338", "text": "If you want to think of it another way, it's disorder at the border by executive order, to channel Dr. Seuss.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053339", "text": "Instead of being transparent with Congress and the American people about what is happening at the border, the administration is twisting itself into our pretzel to avoid saying the dreaded word, crisis.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053340", "text": "When Jeh Johnson was secretary of Homeland Security, he said 1000 individuals coming across the border a day is, A bad day.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053341", "text": "I'll stop with what I said at the beginning, there's disorder at the border because of his executive order.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053342", "text": "I've been to the border many times as the head of the 2014 task force created to address the alarming number of unaccompanied children come in the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053343", "text": "And the outcome of these policies have wreaked havoc along the border and in border communities.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053344", "text": "There's always a pent up demand for crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000053345", "text": "And here's what's happening, there's no question, this trip has confirmed it for me, there is indeed disorder at the border by executive order.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053346", "text": "I've made several trips to the border, McAllen, Rio Grande sector here in El Paso with the past administration in regard to my capacity.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053347", "text": "The policies that the Biden Administration has put in place has caused this crisis at the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053348", "text": "And for months they were told to get the vaccine and they could go back to work back to normal, back to school.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053349", "text": "We'll base decisions on science and we will fight for the American people.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053350", "text": "We've taken the vaccine as members of the Doctors Caucus.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053351", "text": "Jim Cliburn, who is probably one of the most political people on the Democratic side, described this pandemic as a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit their vision.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053352", "text": "Four months for unemployment was already decided on Sunday.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000053353", "text": "When I think of their pain, I think of the damage China's responsible for inflicting on countries around this world and right here at home.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053354", "text": "Our newest members that are elected to this Congress, Mike Garcia, is not a woman, but he's a first generation American.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053355", "text": "Now, we are not done with our fight against this virus, but we are on the road to rebuild and renew and restore this nation.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053356", "text": "Well, I think as we look at coronavirus, we want to make sure the safety of all.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053357", "text": "Instead of allowing the State Department to run this, I'd allow the military to run it.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053358", "text": "If the military says it makes them safer, yes, I would.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053359", "text": "Look, I don't think people are arguing about whether we should have left or not in Afghanistan, it's how.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053360", "text": "Now let me be clear, COVID didn't crush the economy, government crushed the economy.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053361", "text": "This pandemic illustrated that many politicians have a totally different vision for government than what the founders laid out.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053362", "text": "Now if you don't know one of your family members is getting $87, 000 a month from the most corrupt gas company in the Ukraine and it's your job to deal with corruption in the Ukraine, you're not looking very hard.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053363", "text": "Now as to betraying the Ukraine, I've got a different view of that hopefully other people will talk about it.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053364", "text": "This is an evolving disease and virus similar to the SARS virus that we've had previously and I just asked people to take the appropriate precautions.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053365", "text": "If you're former vice president and you were in charge of the Ukraine, nobody can ask you about what you did because you're running for president in 2020.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053366", "text": "The other message that I received regardless of party affiliation was the concern about Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000053367", "text": "It seems that Iran is able to be the largest state sponsor of terrorism and nothing deters them.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000053368", "text": "The largest state sponsor of terrorism, the Iranians, need to feel more pain for their misconduct.", "issue": "terrorism"}
{"id": "0000053369", "text": "There are nation states like Iran calling for the destruction of the only Jewish state in the world, Israel.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000053370", "text": "If they would have been in the military, they had been relieved of their commands and most likely court marshaled.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053371", "text": "I think he's brought order to the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053372", "text": "When I got upset about Syria, he listened and he actually changed his policies.", "issue": "Syria"}
{"id": "0000053373", "text": "I think he should talk about how we've gotten all these peace agreements between the Arabs and Israelis, that's by being tough on Iran.", "issue": "Iran"}
{"id": "0000053374", "text": "I understand what it's like for a woman to go to school when she's threatened every day.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053375", "text": "In the West Herat, which is on the border of Iran and major city in Afghanistan, I think the Iranians will have a major influence.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053376", "text": "We gain the idea that the war is now over, and Joe Biden ended the longest war in American history.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053377", "text": "This is where the war started.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053378", "text": "Under the construct you have created for our diplomatic corps to work safely in Afghanistan, without some military presence, our CIA, who's on the front lines of defending America, cannot stay in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053379", "text": "Senator, you mentioned that you're certain that the military opposes the Biden plan.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053380", "text": "I've talked to commanders in Afghanistan.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053381", "text": "But why the Biden administration has lost control of the southern border, a time to regain control.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053382", "text": "If you believe in controlling the border, this would be the first thing you'd do.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053383", "text": "And when the DHS secretary says the border is closed, nobody believes him, because the word is out that you get to stay in the United States.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053384", "text": "To Jeff Duncan, you won the cyber war all by ...", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053385", "text": "To the conservatives who believe in the constitution, now's your chance to stand up and be counted.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053386", "text": "If you're willing to stay the course in Afghanistan, I'll give you all the protection I can.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053387", "text": "Let's be serious about healthcare and it doesn't have to be a partisan thing.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053388", "text": "So we're in the midst of a pandemic and Lindsey Graham supports the court to strike this down.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053389", "text": "Senator, the White House has been described as a coronavirus hotspot, dozens of people associated with the president's campaign have tested positive for COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053390", "text": "In Washington, to be our voice in Washington, we have a superintendent of education, Molly Spearman, who I trust.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053391", "text": "But what's happening in America and all over the country is a war on the police itself.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053392", "text": "Marijuana can be a very dangerous drug, particularly for young people, but I do support medical marijuana.", "issue": "Marijuana"}
{"id": "0000053393", "text": "When it comes to medical marijuana, it makes sense.", "issue": "marijuana"}
{"id": "0000053394", "text": "All I can say is that the virus is a problem that came out of China, not Trump Tower, that we're getting vaccines ready I think any months now, hopefully even sooner.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053395", "text": "But they have not moved at all, on addressing COVID, which is the number one issue right now.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053396", "text": "They want to put all healthcare under government control.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053397", "text": "This bureaucrat run healthcare is a disaster for you- socialized medicine.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053398", "text": "I support infrastructure here in South Carolina.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053399", "text": "Education is the gateway to the American dream, and we need to make sure that we can do everything possible in order to do that.", "issue": "Education"}
{"id": "0000053400", "text": "When this outbreak first started in China, the government there censored the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and downplayed the true gravity of the virus.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053401", "text": "By the way, when we talk about education, we got 45 million people in America struggling with student debt, some of them really struggling with student debt.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053402", "text": "I voted against the war in Iraq, which was also a tough vote.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053403", "text": "We both agree we have to deal with education and access to education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053404", "text": "Senator, just to be clear, the Vice President committed to picking a woman as his running mate.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053405", "text": "It causes war, it causes great migrations, great migrations.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053406", "text": "Like what's happening in China there they're exporting coal, significant coal.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053407", "text": "And by the way, the idea that he praised the Soviet Union when it was the Soviet Union about the things that they had done well, they are an awful dictatorship killing millions and millions of people.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000053408", "text": "I was condemning the dictatorship in the UAE, you were not.", "issue": "dictatorship"}
{"id": "0000053409", "text": "Okay, let's start off with the war in Iraq, Joe, I was there too.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053410", "text": "Crime soars, people feel unsafe.", "issue": "Crime"}
{"id": "0000053411", "text": "But yet when we go, just to see conditions in a prison, we're turned away and told that we're trespassers.", "issue": "prison"}
{"id": "0000053412", "text": "In cities where there are federal courts but there's no federal detention facilities, they make an agreement with a local jail or prison to hold federal prisoners.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000053413", "text": "They were isolated in a separate wing of the jail where they are abused, where they are ridiculed, where they are mocked because of their political beliefs and because of January 6th and because of the color of their skin.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000053414", "text": "The speaker just mentioned food, we want to make sure that kids have food.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000053415", "text": "But people have run out of the enhanced unemployment, so that is something we will recommend an executive order on.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000053416", "text": "This fight against this global pandemic is a race against time and we must take action now.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053417", "text": "Before we get into the latest details on the war against the COVID-19 pandemic, I have some other sad news to share.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053418", "text": "As we continue to fight this unprecedented a worldwide pandemic, our first priority is saving the lives of thousands of Marylanders.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053419", "text": "It is not a virus that is exclusively for people, but what we know is that older people and people with serious medical problems are disproportionately impacted.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053420", "text": "What we're seeing in Maryland right now is we're seeing community transmission across the state and as a result, yes we are seeing that this virus has entered nursing homes in our state.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053421", "text": "So if you suspect an outbreak and you're operating a nursing home or assisted living, send that specimen to the state lab.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053422", "text": "As of yesterday evening, as governor Hogan noted, we have 17 cases confirmed of COVID-19 within our system.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053423", "text": "This pandemic has had a significant impact on families across the state and many are experiencing severe hardship.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053424", "text": "And so for a nursing home, actually the technical definition for an outbreak is one confirmed case.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053425", "text": "And I think now our understanding of this virus, first of all, how prevalent it is in our communities and how important it is that we keep social distance.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053426", "text": "Without a vaccine or a therapy to stop this disease, the only way to slow this virus down is through the social distancing measures that the governor has put in place in Maryland.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053427", "text": "The health systems of the major city of Wuhan in China were driven into complete crisis by this virus, but social distancing measures put in place reduced the spread to now a very low level in that city and in other places in China.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053428", "text": "So important for all of us and particularly for people who have underlying medical conditions, people who are 65 and older, but don't for a minute think that you are immune from this virus if you are younger.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053429", "text": "All of our normal routines, so we could fight this virus and save lives.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053430", "text": "Obviously, the spread of this deadly virus is wreaking havoc on our national and state economies, on small businesses, and on struggling Americans and the people of our state.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053431", "text": "Together, we are going to defeat this deadly virus and together the state of Maryland will return stronger and better than ever.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053432", "text": "Taking together all of our collective actions and decisions will either slow this virus down or they will speed up the spread.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053433", "text": "On the tests from Korea, we do the approval of the FDA.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000053434", "text": "Without a vaccine, again without an effective treatment, a very powerful tool that we have to protect Marylanders and to fight back against this virus are exactly the social measures which you have implemented through these many orders and through these many weeks.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053435", "text": "The Battelle system uses FDA approved N95 decontamination technology.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000053436", "text": "Despite the clinical command structure establishing order and medical protocols, COVID-19 is a highly-contagious virus that has a much more severe impact on older adults and those with underlying conditions.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053437", "text": "The Minister of Foreign Affairs in China was extremely helpful and a whole bunch of other people, both on this side and on their side, understood the nature of what we were trying to achieve.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053438", "text": "And Tencent, which is the company that in China that actually had the gear, was the sort of connection point to make it happen once the plane landed there.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053439", "text": "We should remember the hospitals and health centers are administering a tremendous amount of vaccine, they are a very big reason about why Massachusetts leads almost every other state in the country in this effort.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053440", "text": "We built the testing infrastructure that made it possible for us to be the second largest per capita tester in the continental United States.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053441", "text": "We've decided to continue to run that infrastructure through the end of June.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053442", "text": "That way, as the governor said, we can provide more sites with vaccine that can administer to people faster.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053443", "text": "The funding will go to qualified organizations to directly administer vaccination to groups not effectively reached by other outreach efforts.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000053444", "text": "The pandemic, we should all remember that the pandemic really mucked up a lot of transnational and international commerce of all kinds and because of that, we lost a significant amount of time on that project.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053445", "text": "We all have a role, we all have purpose as we battle this disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053446", "text": "Our first responders and emergency medical personnel, those who are essential to our success in battling this disease need us all to do everything we can to reduce the spread.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053447", "text": "The state reported 1, 566 new cases of COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053448", "text": "On behalf of them, and so many others who are stepping up day after day in the midst of this pandemic, let's all just keep up the fight against the virus.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053449", "text": "Today's announcement to extend the childcare closure helps the department of early education and care continue to keep the best public health interest of our families and our workforce at the forefront.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053450", "text": "The state reported 1, 745 new cases of COVID-19 for a total of nearly 43, 000 cases tested positive statewide.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053451", "text": "We don't want people getting sicker or exacerbating an illness or an injury and it's important that people are cared for when they're sick whether that's for COVID-19 or for something else.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000053452", "text": "COVID-19 is a horrible disease that is caused by a vicious virus that has extracted a horrible toll despite the incredible supportive care that our hospitals can offer.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053453", "text": "Since the current pandemic began, we are seeing advanced vascular disease, such as leg ulcers and vascular insufficiency, that is leading to amputations.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053454", "text": "Without any effective treatments or vaccines and only a few weapons that we had to fight this virus, those decisions were made to save lives.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053455", "text": "As a social worker, former Commissioner of Mental Health, and as a family member who's experienced the impact of mental illness on my family, it's important to be aware of our personal mental health during this pandemic.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000053456", "text": "A pandemic can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children, in all of us.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053457", "text": "Nearly half of Americans report that the Corona virus has had a negative impact on their mental health, as reported in an issue paper by the Kaiser Family Foundation in April.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053458", "text": "The collaborative approach between our administration, the crafts, and many others to bring respirator masks from China on the new England Patriots plane is reflective of the significant and complicated effort it takes to get this valuable equipment to Massachusetts.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053459", "text": "Our top priority is fighting the virus as we return to something like a new normal.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053460", "text": "I know we'd all prefer to believe that the virus is less serious now and that it's behind us.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053461", "text": "As we continue to bring this fight to the virus, it's how we move forward together.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053462", "text": "Expanded testing and tracing are crucial for beating back the disease.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053463", "text": "From the first days of the pandemic mayor Rivera has been engaging with the hospital to try to tamp down the virus.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053464", "text": "Each and every employee at LGH has played a significant role in fighting this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053465", "text": "The governor has said many times that COVID is not taking the summer off.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053466", "text": "Governor, there's a small outbreak in the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, and the coalition there is calling for more resources from the State.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053467", "text": "We're going through this pandemic, how could it be I think part of it had to do with ...", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053468", "text": "I think if you have more vaccine available and more appointments that you can make available to people, then people move through the system.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053469", "text": "Said yesterday that coronavirus could back in cycles.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053470", "text": "As many of you know, the FDA authorized the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for emergency use.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053471", "text": "The latest information we have on the J & J vaccine is that states won't be receiving large quantities on a regular basis until sometime around the end of March or beginning of April.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053472", "text": "These folks are far more vulnerable to this virus than just about anybody else, and they need to be vaccinated as quickly and as soon as possible to prevent serious illness, and in unfortunate circumstances, death.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053473", "text": "And if we could get to the point where J&J is playing a really big role, and we have a ton of one dose vaccine, that will make a really big difference.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053474", "text": "But at the end of the day, this is still an incredibly contagious virus and people need to take it seriously until we get to the point where we have vaccinated a very significant portion of our population.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053475", "text": "COVID has impacted every resident of our Commonwealth in one way or another, but we all know that there's been a significant impact also on our children.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053476", "text": "As the governor said, the Commonwealth has made tremendous progress in the fight against COVID, which is allowing us to lift restrictions before the end of this month.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053477", "text": "We believe that every veteran in America ought to have healthcare and benefits just as good as any member of Congress.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000053478", "text": "And if we kept advisers with there, the government of Afghanistan and the army would have still been there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053479", "text": "And the secretary said our border is secure.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053480", "text": "While these variants are not known to cause more severe illness, they do tend to be more contagious.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000053481", "text": "It is still believed that having the vaccine is still an important step towards protecting against disease from COVID-19 even those caused by some of the variants of concern.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053482", "text": "You also know in the one vaccine, it's, I think 86%, , as opposed to 47. 5 on the first dose of the other one.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053483", "text": "Governor, according to surveillance, Dr Chang just gave a call out to doctors asking them to send them potential cases of concern.", "issue": "surveillance"}
{"id": "0000053484", "text": "As we continue to navigate this global pandemic here in Maryland, we are continuing to see positive indications in our key data metrics.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053485", "text": "In order to get mass vaccination in Baltimore City up and running sooner than that, the Baltimore City Convention Center Field Site will begin providing vaccinations by next Friday, February 5th.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000053486", "text": "Basically, it is a small change in a virus which may or may not lead to improved ability to infect us all and make us more sick.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053487", "text": "The Haemophilus influenza type B or HIB vaccine, which prevented bacterial infection was introduced in 1987 and is administered in a four dose series, typically from a pediatrician during infancy.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053488", "text": "In addition to those high risk medical conditions, studies also define specific ethnicities, access to healthcare and challenges with things like transportation or health literacy as other risk factors for severe COVID-19 infection and death.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053489", "text": "Expanding the 1C category and addressing healthcare disparities does not unfortunately rectify the issue that limited vaccine will be our unfortunate present day situation.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053490", "text": "In preparation for mass vaccination sites, the Maryland Department of Health is developing a broad, scalable vaccine administration infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053491", "text": "Our strongest defense against this virus continues to be the cooperation and vigilance of the people of Maryland.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053492", "text": "This family is a testament to what faith in medicine, strength in science can do.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053493", "text": "And if you are struggling with addiction, there is no shame in your illness.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000053494", "text": "Like my husband and the administration, I will continue to encourage education that supports a child's individual needs.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053495", "text": "Like many of you, I have experienced the firsthand effects of COVID-19, not only as a patient, but as a worried mother and wife.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053496", "text": "This administration chooses to keep moving forward during this pandemic, not backward.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053497", "text": "As an independent woman, I'm grateful for a President who has championed not only women, but working mothers, by promoting and supporting their roles in the workforce.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053498", "text": "Addressing migration is a hemispheric challenge, a commitment captured in the Los Angeles Declaration adopted by the Summit of Americas.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000053499", "text": "And now we have the war in the Ukraine, and as we know, it has not only constituted grief and destruction, but it made the economic crisis even worse.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053500", "text": "We are suffering from inflation imposed as a consequence of what's going on in Ukraine, but we have the lowest rate of almost every major nation in the world.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000053501", "text": "Today, more Americans have died from this virus than died in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korea combined.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053502", "text": "When Americans of all backgrounds peacefully protest racism and police violence, he disparages them, yet eggs on heavily armed militias.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053503", "text": "He will tell the truth and trust science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053504", "text": "And this pandemic has only shown that your efforts are even more important right now.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053505", "text": "Obviously when I took office 15 months ago, neither I nor anyone could have anticipated we would be confronting a global pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053506", "text": "So stopping the spread of this virus is really the most important tool that we have right now to keep our communities safe.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053507", "text": "We know there is currently no approved vaccine and there is no antiviral treatment for this disease.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053508", "text": "If we've tested negative people who weren't at high risk any way of getting the disease, that's actually giving us a false sense of security.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053509", "text": "Throughout the pandemic, I've been honored to chair the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053510", "text": "State government can't tackle this pandemic and the vaccination drive alone, which is why we're so grateful for partnerships that make this site possible.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053511", "text": "We're excited to bring that technology as well as our pharmacy and IT teams to support the State of Michigan and FEMA in this critical and ambitious effort here at Ford Field.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000053512", "text": "As part of our robust vaccinate vaccination program, we're administering vaccinations at multiple sites across southeast Michigan each week through partnerships with places of worship, community organizations and schools.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000053513", "text": "The drug is used for people hospitalized, experiencing severe COVID symptoms.", "issue": "drug"}
{"id": "0000053514", "text": "So as of April 12th, 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine have been administered across the country, including a little over 209, 000 here in the state of Michigan.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053515", "text": "I and all my eligible family members have received the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053516", "text": "As I stated at the beginning, we've made significant progress toward reducing COVID-19 disparities in communities of color, specifically in the black community in particular.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053517", "text": "Together, we'll become the state that can end this pandemic on our terms because we can do any and everything in Michigan when we do it together.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053518", "text": "Getting a vaccine helps us all be able to do more things and feel safer.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053519", "text": "Because I believe in the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053520", "text": "Post once you've gotten your vaccine, send a happy text.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053521", "text": "I think I'm getting the Pfizer vaccine today and as is my daughter.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053522", "text": "On the heels of the last recession, the legislature cut workers' economic lifeline from 26 weeks to 20 weeks and let inflation whittle away the $362 maximum weekly benefit.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000053523", "text": "The nature of this virus demands that we all work together to protect the people that we serve.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053524", "text": "Per CDC recommendations, and again, depending on the supply of vaccine, we will continue to expand to other types of critical healthcare workers.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053525", "text": "The epidemic order was geared toward stopping the spread of COVID by limiting interactions that are indoors where people are maskless, where there are many households present.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053526", "text": "As the governor mentioned, the first priority for vaccination will be frontline healthcare workers, as well as people living and working in long-term care facilities.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000053527", "text": "I think that this is a woman who has been through a lot, and I think it's important that every single one of us give one another a little bit of compassion and grace.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053528", "text": "With regard to vaccine rollout, we are hopeful that we will have vaccines here in Michigan in the coming days, and that we will be able to get our healthcare workers and nursing home residents, and the first priority vaccinated.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053529", "text": "Right here in a state built on innovation and grit, the safe and effective COVID vaccine is being manufactured by Michigan workers right here.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053530", "text": "Because just one infection can cause an outbreak in your community, which could quickly overwhelm hospitals and put you and your loved ones at risk.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053531", "text": "But remember- One infection can cause an outbreak in the community, which could overwhelm your hospitals where you and your loved ones.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053532", "text": "This means a new era in fighting this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053533", "text": "Over the weekend, the CDC released more specific information on the approved vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053534", "text": "The vaccine was developed using a robust scientific process and no steps have been skipped in the approval process.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053535", "text": "Early in the pandemic, my office was made aware of retailers attempting to sell phony COVID-19 testing kits and fake COVID-19 protection patches.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053536", "text": "It is the nature of this virus, and I'm trying to do everything I can to help these struggling small businesses.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053537", "text": "The only way we will eradicate this virus for once and for all is if our leaders in Washington, Republicans and Democrats, here in Michigan our small businesses and all of you come together and work together for the common good.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053538", "text": "I am encouraged that a second vaccine made by Moderna may be authorized for use as early as this weekend.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053539", "text": "We know this virus is a killer that preys on our most vulnerable populations, which is why my administration has prioritized testing in our nursing homes from the very beginning.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053540", "text": "So as the governor mentioned, two weeks ago, we started vaccinations in Michigan to end this pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053541", "text": "Every area of the state will have access to the vaccine, whether you're in a rural part of the upper peninsula or in the Detroit or Grand Rapids Metro regions.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053542", "text": "So if you do not have a history of a severe allergic reaction to the components of the vaccine, the you should still get vaccinated, and you should talk to your doctor about any concerns you may have about your medication allergies.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053543", "text": "Like other tools that we use in medicine and public health to keep people alive and healthy, these vaccines are an important tool to end this pandemic and save lives.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053544", "text": "A vaccine that is administered to someone who is a healthcare worker is not a wasted vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053545", "text": "Even one infection, one unknown infection of an asymptomatic person, can cause an outbreak in our communities.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053546", "text": "As of yesterday, we had 373, 197 cases due to COVID-19 in the state and 9, 405 deaths.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053547", "text": "You should also know that the process for this vaccine being approved is solid.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053548", "text": "It says, One of the reasons Governor Whitmer supporters like her is that she listens to science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053549", "text": "My administration has been working hard to fight this virus, but we can't do it alone.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053550", "text": "Just to add to what the Governor said, the first priority is reopening high schools for education and sustaining that.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053551", "text": "If our numbers come down a good amount, it still doesn't mean that COVID is gone by Christmas.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053552", "text": "So Michigan is making encouraging progress in eliminating this virus in communities across our state.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053553", "text": "This pandemic is not over yet, and it is important that we remain vigilant, but we have reason for hope.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053554", "text": "But as for events that have happened, that's not what drives decisions in my administration; it is the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053555", "text": "That's the nature of this virus, as we see the demand for vaccines outpace the supply we currently have.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053556", "text": "These are dollars for vaccines, dollars for education of our children, dollars for helping businesses that are struggling and of course, dollars to help people who are struggling as well.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053557", "text": "To date, over 1.2 million doses of vaccine have been administered to Michiganders.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053558", "text": "And we are committed to bringing more and more vaccine into Michigan as quickly as possible.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053559", "text": "So one of the most important things you can also do to end this pandemic, is to get your vaccine as the governor mentioned.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053560", "text": "That is my solemn vow is that everyone who wants a vaccine is going to get one.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053561", "text": "Through the end of the day on Wednesday, there were 174, 749 doses of vaccine administered across the state.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053562", "text": "There is simply not enough vaccine today that has been given to us by the federal government for that to work at this time.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053563", "text": "But fighting this virus is not about graphs, and numbers, and percentages.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053564", "text": "The silver lining in this pandemic is that so many strong partnerships have developed across multiple sectors, government, business, academia, and healthcare, to fight this pandemic back.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053565", "text": "We are a year into fighting this virus, but we are not yet done.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053566", "text": "So people in Michigan know what to do to fight this virus back.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053567", "text": "So let's keep fighting this virus together.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053568", "text": "We've always led with science and data and recently we were able to permit visitations at nursing homes for family members with testing.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053569", "text": "On Friday, the FDA approved a third safe and effective vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053570", "text": "We must and we will, become the state that beat the damn virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053571", "text": "This virus is still very present in the state and our progress we've made is very fragile.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053572", "text": "On Monday, the FDA authorized the safe, effective Pfizer COVID vaccine, which has manufactured right here in Michigan for children ages 12 to 15.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053573", "text": "While we are making steady progress, we know what this virus is capable of when we let our guard down.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053574", "text": "This week the Pfizer vaccine was authorized by the FDA for children aged 12 to 15 years.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053575", "text": "While we are still awaiting further guidance today from the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the authorization of this vaccine is an important milestone for our children.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053576", "text": "So I'm asking all parents today to take this virus seriously and take your child to get vaccinated.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053577", "text": "If you have any questions about the vaccine, talk to your family physician who can provide you with science backed information.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053578", "text": "Michigan's family physicians are key partners in helping end this pandemic and serving our patients at the same time.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053579", "text": "Leaders everywhere, those here in Lansing, and this state Capitol and all the way up to the White House have caught COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053580", "text": "As you noted, the spread of COVID was down substantially, or at least the state was able to do that earlier in the year, and in part, that's probably because there were lockdowns or stay-at-home orders in place.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053581", "text": "Steps like these are crucial to getting this virus under control and I want to thank them and all of the other restaurants and restaurant workers who've made incredible sacrifices this year.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053582", "text": "We as a nation have got to come together to fight this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053583", "text": "By contrast, no country or state has brought COVID down from spread like ours without terrible loss of life or the force of law.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053584", "text": "For schools, children have already lost many months of education, but these are also indoor group settings that bring risk.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053585", "text": "A shortage of blood can have devastating consequences, and one important thing people can do right now is donate blood.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000053586", "text": "They may feel like because of this virus they can not do the things that they want.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053587", "text": "Since the rise of COVID, we have seen a significant decrease in immunization rates and also a decrease in lead screening in the state.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053588", "text": "I want to talk a minute about the virus and a little bit about what we're all going through as we're confronting something that no one's ever been through before.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053589", "text": "This money is critical for families to put food on the table, to keep paying their bills, to buy prescription drugs.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000053590", "text": "Every decision that we're making is based on the best science, the facts that we are confronting as a state.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053591", "text": "The fact of the matter is this is a virus that is ravaging our state, that threatens the very ability of us to meet people's critical healthcare needs by overrunning our hospitals.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053592", "text": "And as the governor mentioned, easing them up too abruptly, or without the right infrastructure in place, would no doubt cause a second spike in cases and deaths.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053593", "text": "The enemy is the virus, not one another and we have to keep that straight.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053594", "text": "The site will serve people who are exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, and all healthcare providers and first responders, whether or not they are experiencing symptoms.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053595", "text": "In order to safely reopen our economy, we've got to know how much COVID-19 is still present in our state.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053596", "text": "Those states are dealing with the same national shortage that Michigan is.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000053597", "text": "We will continue to monitor closely where the disease is in the state and the number of deaths, both at a state and a regional level, as we have been.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053598", "text": "And we then assess the status of the epidemic, so its density and its trajectory and the status of our healthcare systems, how well positioned they are in each of the eight regions over time.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000053599", "text": "And the second key consideration we focused on in defining the regions was how healthcare is provided and reported on across the state.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053600", "text": "Less than a week after we found our first cases of COVID-19, I signed an executive order to expand eligibility for unemployment benefits.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053601", "text": "Now in the midst of our global pandemic, it's an opportunity to shine a light on that issue that we should be talking about year round.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053602", "text": "Our enemy in this instance is a virus, but our frontline workers are just as heroic and that's why it's important for us to extend some gratitude and some opportunity once we are beyond this moment.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053603", "text": "As of today, we have 40, 399 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state and we have 3, 670 people who have lost their battle with this disease.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053604", "text": "We are making decisions based on the best science and data with the council of some of our great business leaders as well as our public health leaders, as we score risk and plan for protocols to mitigate risk.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053605", "text": "Michiganders have now been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic for over five months.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053606", "text": "This virus demands to be taken seriously.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053607", "text": "There's not currently a vaccine approved for COVID, but there are many safe and effective vaccines for things like measles, mumps, hepatitis, meningitis and the flu.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053608", "text": "And that can make the difference between getting COVID asymptomatically and getting COVID and ending up in the ICU.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053609", "text": "We are all hoping for a safe and effective vaccine that will protect us from COVID-19 and allow our communities to get back to some sense of normalcy.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053610", "text": "Efforts to develop a vaccine are being accelerated worldwide, including here in the US, and with the leadership of researchers, even here in the state of Michigan.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053611", "text": "But it's important to note that creating this vaccine is just half the battle.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053612", "text": "Because our schools are funded primarily by state sales tax, the necessary slowing of business and retail due to COVID-19 has stretched an already thin revenue stream for education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053613", "text": "Now, imagine if we had a major flu outbreak on top of the surge that we experienced in March and April of this year.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053614", "text": "The vaccine is already available in many parts of Michigan, with an ample supply expected across the state and across the nation by early fall.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053615", "text": "But unlike COVID-19 there is a vaccine for the flu, and that's why today, we are launching the Facing the Flu Together campaign to increase awareness of the importance of flu vaccinations.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053616", "text": "Last season, only about 31% of Michiganders age six months and up received their flu vaccine, and in 2018, Michigan ranked 38th out of all 50 states for flu vaccination rates.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053617", "text": "This includes making the flu vaccine more accessible in clinics, at community sites, and even at current COVID-19 testing centers.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053618", "text": "So first, the flu vaccine does not cause the flu.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053619", "text": "It's important to remember that the common signs and symptoms of COVID-19; fever, cough, and difficulty breathing are also present, can also occur with influenza illness.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000053620", "text": "Today, I also signed an executive directive declaring racism as a public health crisis in Michigan.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053621", "text": "So we still have to keep fighting this disease that's still very present across the state.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053622", "text": "It has been said, we are at war with a virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053623", "text": "And this makes it uniquely susceptible to COVID outbreak.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053624", "text": "So while we're in the midst of a global pandemic, it's really important that to the best of our ability we observe the best practices to keep ourselves and our families safe.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053625", "text": "But in the midst of a global pandemic, what I ask is that people do so in a way that does not expose themselves or others to a prolonged public health crisis.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053626", "text": "As I said, the vast majority of Michiganders have been doing their part to fight this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053627", "text": "Because COVID-19 doesn't stop at a state border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053628", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has required sacrifice and leadership, has demanded that we all work together to protect each other.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053629", "text": "So, MDHHS is actively working to build out the infrastructure to be able to support this active work.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053630", "text": "So far, more than 1.5 million state and municipal jobs have been cut in the pandemic, double the size of the loss in the Great Recession.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053631", "text": "With his plan, the budget reductions in the coming year will be severe as cuts to education, public safety, and healthcare services at both the state and local level will be unavoidable given the current revenue dollars.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053632", "text": "I'm curious how the state defines outbreak.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053633", "text": "So, great question about how we define an outbreak.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053634", "text": "If we find that there is a close contact that's associated with that initial index case, if you will, then that's how we define an outbreak.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053635", "text": "And outbreaks can be different sizes, but once you have an index case and it spreads to other people, that's how we define an outbreak.", "issue": "outbreak"}
{"id": "0000053636", "text": "Specifically as result of the current public health pandemic, the CARES Act designated more than $13 billion in funding for state education agencies across the country, allocated to school districts based on low income students enrolled.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053637", "text": "Shortly after we discovered the first cases of COVID-19 on March 10th, I signed an executive order closing school buildings to protect our students, , and the more than 100, 000 educators who have dedicated their lives to our children.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053638", "text": "This virus has shined a light on the staggering health disparities black Michiganders have faced long before COVID-19 ever hit our state.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053639", "text": "What we normally hear more about is race, but it can be gender, it can be what we perceive the body weight should be, it can deal with what we think is attractive and not attractive.", "issue": "gender"}
{"id": "0000053640", "text": "Across the state about 12% of people tested, have tested positive for the disease, but in the past two weeks that number has been much lower at about 5%.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053641", "text": "COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on our state budgets.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053642", "text": "We are in the midst of a global pandemic and we're confronting decades anxiety and anger about police brutality in the same moment, not to mention a 500 year flooding event.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053643", "text": "As a father, former teacher, principal, police officer, and United States Marine, my commitment to ensuring that all children have access to a high quality public education extends beyond the walls of my district's classrooms to include the entire state.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053644", "text": "We came together as the arsenal of democracy to defeat the Nazis because we were united against a common enemy.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053645", "text": "The ongoing education of our kids, is something that we are well into, ISDs are leading that effort at the local level.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053646", "text": "We're making decisions based on the best medical science, not a political poll, not a tweet, and not a threat of litigation.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053647", "text": "The most important tool that we have to fight this virus is social distancing.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053648", "text": "In fact, with a poor 4.5, I'm sorry, 4.6 billion in the trust fund prior to this pandemic, we had the third highest trust fund balance in the nation, also third highest in terms of solvency.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053649", "text": "So for comparison, at this time during the great recession there was less than $40 million in that trust fund.", "issue": "recession"}
{"id": "0000053650", "text": "We've taken aggressive action to fight this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053651", "text": "They really are on the frontline of battling this disease in their communities.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053652", "text": "For many of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought life as we know it to a standstill, and Michigan's healthcare community has been in a unique position during this time.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053653", "text": "One of the most powerful tools that we have in the fight against this virus is widespread testing.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053654", "text": "Under this executive order, anyone who leaves their work for home or who has symptoms of COVID-19, even mild symptoms, may receive a test at a community testing location without securing a doctor's order in advance.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053655", "text": "The CVS health team is part of an army of countless healthcare professionals and frontline workers who have brought the country together through their efforts and compassionate, selfless acts.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000053656", "text": "It's about a killer virus that is confronting all Americans.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053657", "text": "And similarly, when I'm talking to him I'm getting the benefit of Cleveland Clinic science that is informing a lot of the work that he's doing.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053658", "text": "Neither the virus, nor the economic distress stops at state line or party line.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053659", "text": "Michigan is not alone, states across the country are facing budget challenges due to COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053660", "text": "The pandemic forced us to think about alternative teaching methods.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053661", "text": "The dollars we've used to keep people safe during this pandemic have come not only from the state treasury, but also from philanthropic sources and the federal government.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053662", "text": "They're doing great work during this pandemic to support families and preventing abuse and neglect before it occurs.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053663", "text": "I want fewer people to get COVID and that's what really has informed every decision that we've made.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053664", "text": "In the March presidential primary, we had a line in our lobby.", "issue": "lobby"}
{"id": "0000053665", "text": "Just like fighting this pandemic, democracy is a team sport, and we all have a part to play this fall.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053666", "text": "So today we will announce 113, 863 cases of COVID-19 in the state and 6, 623 deaths.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053667", "text": "We're now approaching 200, 000 American deaths from the virus, untold sacrifice has been made all across this country, deaths that could have been prevented had we had more of a national strategy.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053668", "text": "So today, we are announcing 103, 710 total cases of COVID-19 and 6, 509 deaths here in the state of Michigan.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053669", "text": "Alleviating and disrupting poverty in our communities necessitates comprehensive and integrated investments in adult learning and job training for in demand sectors.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053670", "text": "It also includes financial education and Huntington Bank has always been a willing partner to actually present at our financial workshops and help our individuals learn the ins and outs of financial management.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053671", "text": "Obviously when I took office 15 months ago, neither I nor anyone could have anticipated we would be confronting a global pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053672", "text": "So stopping the spread of this virus is really the most important tool that we have right now to keep our communities safe.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053673", "text": "And if you think you should be tested for coronavirus, call on the phone.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053674", "text": "We've also ensured that if you need to do banking or gas up your car, you can do some of those fundamental things that are necessary for life.", "issue": "banking"}
{"id": "0000053675", "text": "As with every decision that we've made throughout the pandemic, we are leading with science and data to keep you and your family safe.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053676", "text": "Recently, the Pfizer vaccine, manufactured right here in Michigan, was authorized for children ages 12 to 16.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053677", "text": "Like other vaccines before it for polio and smallpox, the vaccine represents hope and healing.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053678", "text": "They've been on the front lines of battling COVID and they've made sacrifices for the community that should not be overlooked or forgotten.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053679", "text": "And that vaccinated people do not pose a significant risk of passing the virus on to others.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053680", "text": "The disruption this virus has caused to our daily lives is immeasurable, and it has already taken the lives of more than 210, 000 Americans, including over 6, 800 right here in Michigan.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053681", "text": "When you see major league baseball clubhouses, really some of them have seen a number cases with COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053682", "text": "It is, I am told, this state in particular sees trade with Mexico and Canada support 228, 000 jobs, $20 billion annually.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000053683", "text": "The governor mentioned the border.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053684", "text": "But when we have a vaccine, we'll make sure it's safe for the American people.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053685", "text": "With the way that the administration has handled the pandemic happen the last couple weeks.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053686", "text": "Where Joe Biden abandoned his historic opposition to taxpayer funding of abortion, he now supports using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion in this country.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000053687", "text": "Early in this pandemic, the American people saw the leadership of President Trump shine forth.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053688", "text": "We're going to defend the freedom of religion of all of our veterans of every faith.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000053689", "text": "They even support taxpayer funding of abortion.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000053690", "text": "This president has called on Congress to outlaw late term abortion once and for all.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000053691", "text": "In our 48 months, the Trump-Pence administration achieved the lowest unemployment, the highest household incomes, the most energy production, the most pro-American trade deals, the most secure border and the strongest military in the history of the world.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000053692", "text": "I can assure all the Veterans for Trump here that you have a president and a vice president who know that veteran's benefits are not entitlements, they are the ongoing compensation that was earned in the uniform of the United States.", "issue": "compensation"}
{"id": "0000053693", "text": "My dad always said that the heroes in that war were the ones that didn't get to come home to their families.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053694", "text": "Now President Trump and I will always support the right of Americans to peaceful protest, it's enshrined in our constitution, but rioting and looting is not peaceful protest.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053695", "text": "On the issue of trade, so important here in Arizona, the governor and I were just talking about it.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000053696", "text": "Four years ago we inherited a military hollowed out by devastating budget cuts, an economy struggling to break out of the slowest recovery since the Great Depression.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053697", "text": "We restored the arsenal of democracy and we are once again giving our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and space force the resources and support they need to defend this nation.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053698", "text": "And where President Donald Trump ended the war on coal, unleashed American energy and we're now a net exporter of energy for the first time in 70 years.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053699", "text": "But now Joe Biden supports using taxpayer dollars to pay for abortion all the way up to the moment of birth.", "issue": "abortion"}
{"id": "0000053700", "text": "But in those first three years under the leadership of President Donald Trump, we rebuilt our military, we restored the arsenal of democracy.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053701", "text": "And in the midst of this pandemic, President Trump worked with the leaders in Congress in both political parties to secure support for America's families and America's businesses impacted by this virus that came to us from China.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053702", "text": "And I promise you when it comes to trade, President Trump is always going to put American jobs and American workers first.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000053703", "text": "President Donald Trump, we opened up coal country and the war on coal is over.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053704", "text": "They came here for the freedom of religion, chief among them.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000053705", "text": "I think of myself as energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000053706", "text": "So against everyone's advice, including the current president's own military, he decided to withdraw and to withdraw rapidly.", "issue": "military"}
{"id": "0000053707", "text": "I think Afghanistan is lost.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053708", "text": "Make US industry less competitive than China in order to massively subsidize the coastal cosmopolitan lifestyle.", "issue": "China"}
{"id": "0000053709", "text": "Unemployment is extremely important and we need to make sure for those who are not able to recover their jobs, unemployment is adequate.", "issue": "Unemployment"}
{"id": "0000053710", "text": "One of the things we've observed here in the Ukraine war is the President seems to want everybody in the world to produce more except us.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053711", "text": "We do need, especially for certain distressed sectors, and you heard Chairman Powell talk about this earlier this week, we do need some additional stimulus for those distressed sectors.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000053712", "text": "Because we don't really hear talking about the border, the crisis in the Middle East, the gas supply issues right now.", "issue": "border"}
{"id": "0000053713", "text": "I believe in the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053714", "text": "Fortunately, President Trump and his administration ended the ideological war on fossil fuels and hit the accelerator on all-of-the-above American energy dominance.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053715", "text": "When I was a child, our nation was battling a different virus, polio.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053716", "text": "The biggest issue they're dealing with now is inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000053717", "text": "The Democrats are trying to redefine infrastructure to include lots of things and they have a long list of social spending on their wishlist.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053718", "text": "So if President Biden wants to be middle class Joe and focus on physical infrastructure, then he's going to find a willing partner in Republicans.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053719", "text": "So if this administration would take a look at what we did in the EPW committee the last two congresses, they would see where we worked on infrastructure in a bipartisan manner.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053720", "text": "Again, bipartisan this is what Americans think of as infrastructure; roads, bridges, waterways locks and dams, and throw in some broadband and we've got a bill.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053721", "text": "The government of communist China, whether it's covering up the COVID-19 virus, stealing our jobs or technology, putting a million people in prison for their religion, harvesting organs involuntarily, taking away the basic rights of Hong Kong citizens.", "issue": "religion"}
{"id": "0000053722", "text": "And what this double death tax would do as the leader alluded to, not only do you have the death tax, which hits these farm and ranch operations.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000053723", "text": "And one of the real silver linings, I think you could say about the pandemic is we never had a food shortage.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053724", "text": "Marlene asked everyone to get a vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053725", "text": "And our question is, going into this election, nothing impacts the voters more than the COVID-19 pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053726", "text": "This virus was so bungled at the federal level that we literally had states and communities fighting each other for personal protective equipment.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053727", "text": "Kentuckians are not confused about who launched the war on coal.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053728", "text": "Every single combat mission that I did, no matter how high I flew, no matter where I was, in Afghanistan or Iraq, I never forgot who sent me there.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053729", "text": "That candidate, Senator Kamala Harris, has a wealth of information and in fact, she represents a great step forward in history if you think about it.", "issue": "wealth"}
{"id": "0000053730", "text": "She will be the first black woman, the first Indian American woman to run for Vice President of these United States on any major party ticket.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053731", "text": "The pandemic of racism, the pandemic of health, and that pandemic of economic injustice and we are so pleased to have both of them join us today.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053732", "text": "She was a petite woman and there was such an inverse relationship between her size and her stature, in terms of everything she achieved on, in our ongoing fight for civil rights.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053733", "text": "The NAACP has since its founding represented individuals in court to eliminate race based discrimination.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000053734", "text": "It is widely supported by the public, and part of that agenda, which people also care about, is whether we still have a democracy in a few years.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053735", "text": "We can't build a world-class infrastructure, if we don't have good paying jobs that lead to clean energy.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053736", "text": "And this was a crisis long before COVID, but the pandemic magnified just how important care is.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053737", "text": "Everything we're talking about affects that woman putting a sick child on the bus, and what that means to the child and the other children.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053738", "text": "They didn't believe in the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053739", "text": "They want the party of healthcare to represent them.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053740", "text": "On the subject of healthcare, this was a reiteration of what we had run on in 2006, six for '06.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053741", "text": "This pandemic has made clear the deep inequities and failures in our healthcare system.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053742", "text": "These problems were clear before the pandemic, and yet this administration is still dead set on achieving through the courts, what they could not do in Congress.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053743", "text": "And as a physician and humanitarian, I find it repulsive that during a global pandemic, while millions are infected by COVID-19, millions gasping for air, millions anxious and depressed, because of their situation.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053744", "text": "We fought a civil war over part of that, but that made so much progress.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053745", "text": "Our founders built our democracy on a simple promise that every American should have a voice in our government from city hall to the halls of Congress.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053746", "text": "And he said, 240 years ago, we fought a war against the mightiest nation on earth, and the reason why we fought the war was taxation without representation.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053747", "text": "I mean, you've talked about the importance of crushing the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053748", "text": "But over 90% of the funding for education comes from state and local government.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053749", "text": "The Republican bill, the Republican bill which they wholeheartedly supported said, We're against violence against women unless you are a Native American woman, unless you are LGBTQ, or unless you are an immigrant woman.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053750", "text": "The Framers of the constitution did not promise a perfect country.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053751", "text": "The chairman talked about systemic racism.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053752", "text": "Systemic racism demands action.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053753", "text": "On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 when our constitution was adopted, Americans gathered on the steps of Independence Hall to await the news of the government our founders had crafted.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053754", "text": "Our republic endures because of the wisdom of our constitution enshrined in three co-equal branches of government serving as checks and balances on each other.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053755", "text": "And this week, the President has admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically.", "issue": "Ukraine"}
{"id": "0000053756", "text": "Russia can very well afford to pay for those ventilators, so they just a wheel and deal in a way that is not appropriate.", "issue": "Russia"}
{"id": "0000053757", "text": "We are part of that army that will follow this woman any place, anytime, day or night.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000053758", "text": "The extraordinary role that you are playing during this pandemic and recognize that you have made a tremendous difference.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053759", "text": "The pandemic made it very clear, whether it was telemedicine, whether it was distance learning, whether it was communicating with family, and the rest because of being remote and the rest.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053760", "text": "So again, we come back to healthcare, and education, and fairness in our economy where we have a sense of community.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053761", "text": "What is in this bill is what we could agree to as infrastructure.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053762", "text": "And the issue of Medicaid, $900 billion, almost a trillion dollars, from Medicaid, that's 60% of Hong Kong healthcare, is paid for by Medicaid.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053763", "text": "Well look, power to declare a war is in the Constitution, a power of the Congress of the United States.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053764", "text": "This trade off is one for our elected representatives who wield powers of taxation and spending.", "issue": "trade"}
{"id": "0000053765", "text": "I'm a big believer in technology, and perhaps there will be something, but we're just talking about this timeframe.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000053766", "text": "Because we should be using our energy on how we go forward, than making judgements about what his administration did or didn't do.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000053767", "text": "Throughout America's history, our leaders have created and strengthened guardrails in the constitution to ensure stability and continuity of government in times of crisis.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053768", "text": "Putin's goal was to diminish the view of democracy in the world.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053769", "text": "I am calling for the resignation of the Chief of the Capitol Police, Mr. Sund.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000053770", "text": "And while the administration decides to ignore science, has contempt for science, the death toll rises.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053771", "text": "We demand that we be put into the constitution.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053772", "text": "This justice of the Supreme Court not known to be friendly to some of our issues but to be clear about the constitution, it does not forbid discrimination against women, it does not.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000053773", "text": "It's long past time that the constitution officially recognizes and guarantees that equality of rights under law shall not be denied on the account of sex.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053774", "text": "She was sent to jail, she was sent to an insane asylum because she believed in women's equality and our right to vote.", "issue": "jail"}
{"id": "0000053775", "text": "But the suffragists knew specific language was needed in the constitution in order to achieve equality of rights under the law and they were right.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053776", "text": "We have borne the brunt of this pandemic and we have a system in America that so often suppress and also do not support women.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053777", "text": "And therefore, so much of the burden of trying to meet the challenge of this pandemic goes straight to small communities, local governments, irrespective of what may be happening at the state level.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053778", "text": "As you think big, and you're talking about infrastructure here, you've seen that President Trump is supportive of it.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053779", "text": "But, again, we really have to face the reality of science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053780", "text": "The federal government has invested in infrastructure before, but never with the focus and emphasis on sustainability.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053781", "text": "And yet, despite the evidence, too many of our Republican colleagues refuse to acknowledge the science.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053782", "text": "And some people criticize the price of Build Back Better, but remember that it's over a 10-year period.", "issue": "price"}
{"id": "0000053783", "text": "If you don't believe in science, you won't take the measures to protect the health of the American people.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053784", "text": "That where we are talking right now, the administration, in terms of their denial, their delay on the coronavirus, caused death.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053785", "text": "One to lower the cost of healthcare by lowering the cost of prescription drugs and keeping the preexisting condition benefit as a benefit.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053786", "text": "I don't think the virus is taking a pause.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053787", "text": "For weeks after the public health emergency was declared, the federal government provided little or no information about COVID in any language other than English, leaving millions of people in the dark.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053788", "text": "We talk a great deal about a vaccine and a cure.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053789", "text": "But what we're talking about now is about a stimulus to our economy at a time where people are crippled with concern about their physical well being as well as their economic well being.", "issue": "stimulus"}
{"id": "0000053790", "text": "And know, just again, state and local does do over 90% of the education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053791", "text": "The Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, has a responsibility to approve drugs, judging on their safety and their efficacy, not by a declaration from the White House about speed and politicizing the FDA.", "issue": "Drug"}
{"id": "0000053792", "text": "If schools are closed, we have to make sure that the food gets to the children.", "issue": "food"}
{"id": "0000053793", "text": "We did the major investment last week.", "issue": "investment"}
{"id": "0000053794", "text": "So very important to take inventory, to understand the spread of the virus, and also to meet the needs of the people affected.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053795", "text": "We're providing the technology, the training, and all the rest to make sure that everybody is up to par on that.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000053796", "text": "Now, we all hope and pray for a vaccine, and that will make a tremendous difference.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053797", "text": "With all due respect to Archbishop, I think we should follow science on this.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053798", "text": "And I said, Well, I believe that science is an answer to our prayers.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053799", "text": "They have contempt for science and disdain for state and local government.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053800", "text": "And if it's virtual, you need the technology that the superintendent mentioned and that's in our bill, and not only the technology, the physical piece, but the power that goes with it.", "issue": "technology"}
{"id": "0000053801", "text": "I've been to Afghanistan nine times, many times led by Susan Davis of California for a Mother's Day visit.", "issue": "Afghanistan"}
{"id": "0000053802", "text": "But of course, our whole purpose of security to thank our troops, some of them moms, some of them grandmoms fighting the war.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053803", "text": "Our President has said, I will support the infrastructure, whatever we can reach in a bipartisan way, but I will not confine my vision for the future to what that bipartisan infrastructure will be.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053804", "text": "Indeed, in the words attributed to another of our colleagues, the legendary Daniel Webster, he said, Hold on my friends to the constitution of your country and the government established under it.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053805", "text": "And so, democracy must be forever defended from forces that wish it harm.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053806", "text": "And if the coronavirus, among many things, the coronavirus has taught us, have taught us that it's really important not only to have your own equipment, but to have the service.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053807", "text": "For our democracy, we ensure that states can carry out this year's election and require early voting and vote by mail.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053808", "text": "Again though, everything is overwhelmed by the coronavirus because this is about the health and wellbeing of the American people and how we in a very coordinated government wide way respond to it.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053809", "text": "Quite frankly, if you want to see a template about how to deal with such an epidemic as Ebola, look to what the Obama administration did.", "issue": "epidemic"}
{"id": "0000053810", "text": "We all remain committed to the fight to end racism and advance justice, which continues with a renewed urgency.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053811", "text": "Science and the Biden administration have taken us closer to the end of the pandemic.", "issue": "Science"}
{"id": "0000053812", "text": "The migration that that can create creates conflict and therefore a national security issue, but as always a values issue for us to pass on this planet to future generations in the best possible way.", "issue": "migration"}
{"id": "0000053813", "text": "The piece was about inflation and we had the expert's opinions and in fact, very recent today from Moody's, that since it is paid for, it would not increase inflation.", "issue": "inflation"}
{"id": "0000053814", "text": "Essential to crush the virus to make that happen.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053815", "text": "Well, over 90% of public education is funded at the state and local government.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053816", "text": "It didn't crush the virus, it didn't do any of the things it was supposed to do.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053817", "text": "But the climate issue is not just about, as I say, health in that, it's about people in poverty taking a terrible bite of this warming apple called the climate crisis.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053818", "text": "As the cares benefits of fade away, 8 million people, more people, have fallen into poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053819", "text": "And yet they refuse to help families from falling into poverty.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053820", "text": "We will have to do more on the coronavirus to make sure that the vaccine, God-willing, will be available.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053821", "text": "We knew this problem existed, but COVID made it even more apparent.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053822", "text": "We're talking about the consequences of a pandemic, symptoms of a problem that the president refuses to address, and that is the coronavirus.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053823", "text": "And because we believe education, we believe that all of our people, regardless of their income are entitled to a higher education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053824", "text": "And our administration believes in science, not right wing extremism.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053825", "text": "And the science tells us that outdoor activities are far safer than indoor activities, and we will continue to base our decisions squarely on facts and data as we have throughout this emergency.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053826", "text": "These are high poverty, high unemployment, low income census tracts to make sure that we're putting an equity and justice lens on everything we're doing around economic recovery.", "issue": "poverty"}
{"id": "0000053827", "text": "Each state is experiencing a shortage of tests.", "issue": "shortage"}
{"id": "0000053828", "text": "Social separation is key to fighting this virus, but it also is keeping us from the direct contact and support of those we depend on.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053829", "text": "My gut tells me more time on the clock is probably not our friend in this case, but that's a gut reaction, I've got no science to back that up.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053830", "text": "It's on me, but my number one goal, my entire focus is on defeating this virus and getting our state back to where we can responsibly reopen it.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053831", "text": "If you've been keeping your eyes and your mind close to the facts and to science, please, I beg you to open them.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053832", "text": "With that, please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053833", "text": "So on medical marijuana access during COVID 19 there's been a lot of concern that dispensaries are running out of supplies.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053834", "text": "Encouraging, engendering explicitly, almost hoping for bankruptcies of American states in the midst of the biggest healthcare this country has ever faced is completely and utterly irresponsible.", "issue": "healthcare"}
{"id": "0000053835", "text": "He was drafted into the US Army in 1961, and among other highlights of his service, he served two years as a member of the Presidential Honor Guard.", "issue": "Army"}
{"id": "0000053836", "text": "Later, she would be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, but even in the face of this, she never let it define who she was.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053837", "text": "It takes a village to win this war, and that includes the strength of our legislative bodies on both sides of the aisle.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053838", "text": "As the governor shared last evening, our hospitals reported 6, 722 hospitalizations of COVID-19 and patients or persons under investigation.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053839", "text": "When we say we're in a war, we mean it.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053840", "text": "I think that this shared experience, COVID knows no neighborhood.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053841", "text": "While we're fighting this war, democracy and other things have to go on.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053842", "text": "The shore community, particularly in the off season does not have the healthcare infrastructure to support the challenges that this virus has put upon us.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053843", "text": "A woman who was taken to a crisis center for evaluation spit in an officer's face.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053844", "text": "We are doing that, we will do that and we will win this war as we have won so many before.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053845", "text": "Right now we still don't have a lot of information specific to SARS-CoV-2, that's the virus that causes COVID-19, but we do have a lot of information on other Corona viruses such as the Coronavirus that causes MERS.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053846", "text": "In fact, Matt's brother Michael, his big brother Michael is also battling COVID-19, and recently was moved out of ICU, and so please everybody pray for Michael's continued recovery.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053847", "text": "With that, please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053848", "text": "This is a well-deserved recognition that education and educators are a critical part of our COVID-19 response.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053849", "text": "He began his career in education as a special education teacher and moved on to serve in other roles, including as the Paterson's athletic director, and the principal at Great Falls Academy, and as a coach.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053850", "text": "Villamena was also stricken with COVID-19 but I can't say here for sure whether or not that's was the cause of death.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053851", "text": "Doing so takes a veritable army and with the attorney general by my side today we are announcing that this army will grow.", "issue": "army"}
{"id": "0000053852", "text": "Certainly we know, as the commissioner and others have mentioned, that the number of people going to emergency departments for other reasons besides COVID have dropped dramatically at about half the normal levels or so.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053853", "text": "This administration has been committed to tackling, and dismantling systemic racism, but despite our great strides thus far, we know that our work is far from over.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053854", "text": "With that, please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053855", "text": "Coxsackie virus is a very common infection of younger children and that causes what's known as hand foot and mouth disease.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053856", "text": "They had been waging, a heroic war against COVID-19.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053857", "text": "Importantly, Ms. Donnie was a woman of faith who lived her faith every day and was a deaconess at Newark's Shiloh Baptist Church.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053858", "text": "With that, please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053859", "text": "With that, please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053860", "text": "Expanded testing is vital to containing the spread of COVID-19.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053861", "text": "So, the potential for serious illness associated with this MISC is a really something we're very concerned about.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000053862", "text": "Employment in the garden state has been reduced to a level not seen since February of 1992.", "issue": "Employment"}
{"id": "0000053863", "text": "Many of these workers were unemployed before the pandemic began, and this situation is obviously made their job search exponentially more difficult.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053864", "text": "With so many people filing for unemployment for the first time, it's important to recognize that systems are in place to protect your personal and banking information.", "issue": "unemployment"}
{"id": "0000053865", "text": "And it's called, On coronavirus, we know who will pay the price when states reopen before they should.", "issue": "coronavirus"}
{"id": "0000053866", "text": "And that subject, without a mask, ended up coughing on the woman that had asked her to stand back.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053867", "text": "With the ongoing spread of COVID-19, I am once again emphasizing that social distancing is vital to slow this process.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053868", "text": "In South Korea, they viewed social distancing as the main effort of mass protection.", "issue": "Korea"}
{"id": "0000053869", "text": "I would almost add iterative here because as Dr. Fauci would remind us, Judy and Ed, we don't dictate the terms, the virus dictates the terms.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053870", "text": "Let's all remember this is a virus that dictates the terms.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053871", "text": "I'm joined by the woman to my right who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053872", "text": "One of the key things we have discussed since this pandemic began is the need for us to ensure our longterm resiliency and preparedness for, please God, Judy, it doesn't come, but the next outbreak.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053873", "text": "Once the war was over, he returned home.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053874", "text": "Please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053875", "text": "He had been battling kidney disease for some time, so please keep Andy, and his loved ones, family and friends in your prayers.", "issue": "disease"}
{"id": "0000053876", "text": "Three more members of our wonderful, extraordinary, and diverse New Jersey family taken from us by this virus, which does not discriminate.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053877", "text": "Commission members have also studied our public transportation infrastructure and childcare options, in our efforts to correlate transportation and childcare needs with a staggered return to work schedule.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053878", "text": "With me is to my right is the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli.", "issue": "woman"}
{"id": "0000053879", "text": "As we journey through this pandemic together, there is no group that is more important than our local health officials.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053880", "text": "Today, we are further investing in the public health infrastructure by making $32.3 million in federal funding available to county and local health departments.", "issue": "infrastructure"}
{"id": "0000053881", "text": "This lingering illness may lead to prolonged absences from work studies or other activities.", "issue": "illness"}
{"id": "0000053882", "text": "Funding for our children's education, funding for critical support programs that lift up countless New Jersey families, funding for essential programs that our underserved communities need, and more will be left unfunded or underfunded in the next budget.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053883", "text": "I have to remind folks, this virus, and Ed and Judy will back this up, is dramatically more lethal indoors than outdoors, and we just can't ignore that fact.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053884", "text": "Joe was a proud veteran of the United States Navy and in 2019, in fact, was cited for his service by the veterans administration.", "issue": "veteran"}
{"id": "0000053885", "text": "Reproductive rights now are enshrined in the constitution of the state of California.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053886", "text": "Contraceptive rights enshrined in the constitution of the state of California.", "issue": "constitution"}
{"id": "0000053887", "text": "We affirmed the medical intelligence of the vaccine and the entire medical community across the globe has accepted the efficiency and efficacy of the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053888", "text": "I've described the pandemic and what our healthcare workers in our hospitals have faced as the medical equivalent of a war zone.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053889", "text": "Just as the governor said, you could bring this virus home to others in your family or to those in your community.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053890", "text": "The sooner we can hit critical mass, the faster we will stop COVID in its tracks.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053891", "text": "Getting vaccines into arms is critical to crushing COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053892", "text": "Stony Brook has mass vaccination on its main campus and in South Hampton and has run numerous pop-up sites in communities across Long Island.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000053893", "text": "New Yorkers had been fighting for racial equality by ending systematic racism.", "issue": "racism"}
{"id": "0000053894", "text": "Of course, New Yorkers have been fighting to keep COVID-19 rates low.", "issue": "COVID-19"}
{"id": "0000053895", "text": "For those who aren't familiar with the vaccines, this vaccine only requires one shot as opposed to two shots with the other popular vaccines.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053896", "text": "That's how we have to think of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053897", "text": "The injustices that COVID exposed and let's take this moment and make it a productive and a constructive one.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053898", "text": "The pandemic has made it clear that we cannot consider high speed internet a luxury, it is a necessity for modern life.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053899", "text": "Now, especially in the context of this pandemic, I can see the adverse impact of the lack of broadband access to many kids and I live in New York City and it's a big issue there as well.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053900", "text": "People tend to focus on the state income tax.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000053901", "text": "We just put a surcharge on the state income tax for the highest earners to finance our reconstruction in essence.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000053902", "text": "No state has made this commitment to green energy.", "issue": "energy"}
{"id": "0000053903", "text": "So we have the vaccine and we're getting out the vaccine and it's important that everyone gets the vaccine, but it's important that everybody gets the vaccine equitably and fairly.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053904", "text": "A member of the family has a virus, that member of the family takes precautions to protect the family.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053905", "text": "Now he is making sure the vaccine is easily accessible for our another essential population.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053906", "text": "The folks who work at bodegas and the grocery stores have provided vital lifelines during the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053907", "text": "Now, just to show how easy the vaccine is I'm actually going to administer your vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053908", "text": "If you take precautions within the family, when somebody gets a virus, you can make sure that other people don't get the virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053909", "text": "We fought hard to defeat this virus.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053910", "text": "I encourage everyone to get the vaccine under the governor's leadership we have also passed the budget, hardest budget we've ever done.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053911", "text": "So what you see in the beginning is those people who are willing to take the vaccine, they came in and they're taking it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053912", "text": "The nursing homes, what that is going to come down to in my opinion is the politics of COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053913", "text": "I believe the federal government was slow on COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053914", "text": "We have got to stop this and make sure COVID cannot make a resurgence in our community.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053915", "text": "Since the fall, you and your team had made sure the vaccine are safe and have fought to get New York State the vaccine it needs.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053916", "text": "Again in retrospect, in the beginning of COVID the federal government authorized an unemployment insurance program.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053917", "text": "With the vaccine, this fight can finally come to an end.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053918", "text": "But as the governor has said, the first in line to suffer from COVID should not be the last in line to get the vaccine.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053919", "text": "Fortunately, as the COVID vaccine proves effective, trust in it increases.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053920", "text": "And consequently, the demand for the vaccine is increasing.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053921", "text": "To overcome COVID, we need everyone as the governor has said to take this vaccine.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053922", "text": "We run a strong program of education around this vaccine that the government talked about.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053923", "text": "On a more personal note, this pandemic has wreaked havoc, I know, on many of us.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053924", "text": "The sooner we can hit critical mass, the faster we will stop COVID in its tracks.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053925", "text": "Faith leaders have taken the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053926", "text": "We have COVID, that is still very much alive and well, and it is still causing deaths and we cannot move past that.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053927", "text": "Yes, COVID posed major challenges, and yes, you're not going back to the way it was, there is no going back.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053928", "text": "Those benefits have been subject to state tax for decades, so that has not changed.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000053929", "text": "Hardest hit state by COVID on the globe.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053930", "text": "It's less disruptive, the children get the education, you don't have the same issues you have with remote learning.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053931", "text": "I respect local governments, I respect the prerogative of local governments with education.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053932", "text": "I understand battling COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053933", "text": "It ends when the vaccine hits a critical mass.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053934", "text": "So the vaccine is coming and we're ready to administer it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053935", "text": "And we're all anxious to do the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053936", "text": "The agenda will be to make sure not only COVID never happens again, but we answer those inequalities once and for all.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053937", "text": "The way the vaccine is distributed is we have the priority list of who should receive the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053938", "text": "The federal government approved the vaccine and the New York State Clinical Advisory Task Force approved the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053939", "text": "What happens is the state gets the vaccine, the state then distributes it proportionately to regions.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053940", "text": "They will be administering the vaccination.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000053941", "text": "The state paid more than its fair share for COVID and what we went through in the spring.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053942", "text": "And then the first allocation from the Moderna drugs vaccine is tentatively slated to be distributed to all hospitals here in New York state on December 22nd.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053943", "text": "The state controls the dispersal and guidelines on the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053944", "text": "We're extending the sales tax deadlines for the New York city restaurants by waiving interest and penalties on sales tax due on Monday, December 21st; sales tax were due on the 21st.", "issue": "tax"}
{"id": "0000053945", "text": "If you start with a public where 50% are skeptical about the vaccine, that's a major problem.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053946", "text": "Situations are causing an increase in crime.", "issue": "crime"}
{"id": "0000053947", "text": "I think it was COVID and the economy and young people unhappy and a captive audience.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053948", "text": "To date, the biggest criticism that you face through this is regarding nursing homes during the pandemic.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053949", "text": "I think that's what we proved during COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053950", "text": "It undermines the entire sense of democracy and equality and a government that works for all people.", "issue": "democracy"}
{"id": "0000053951", "text": "But we tell the hospital, this is the eligible category, you administer the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053952", "text": "We have already distributed more vaccine and our hospitals have vaccinated more people than any state in the nation.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053953", "text": "We're already leading the nation in getting the vaccine out.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053954", "text": "This is the weapon that wins the COVID war and we have to get serious about this.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053955", "text": "And I won't ask New Yorkers to take a vaccine that I wouldn't take myself.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053956", "text": "New York clean in the vaccine, which will have the added benefit of cleaning your arteries while you're being treated by the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053957", "text": "First of all, on the vaccine, you said that you wouldn't ask anyone to take the vaccine that you wouldn't take yourself.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053958", "text": "Doctor, on this education of the population of both the small spreads and even more now the vaccine, Take the vaccine, it's safe, I think that's going to be difficult to do.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053959", "text": "A, you have many people who think the vaccine was rushed for political reasons by the Trump administration.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053960", "text": "B, you're asking people to take a vaccine and older people to take a vaccine", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053961", "text": "I would not ask New Yorkers to take any vaccine that I would not take myself.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053962", "text": "So in the spring, the pandemic was pretty much defined by shortages.", "issue": "pandemic"}
{"id": "0000053963", "text": "The way the vaccine is going to work is the federal government will be responsible for the procurement and the distribution.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053964", "text": "Pfizer's vaccine is expected to be approved by the FDA tomorrow.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053965", "text": "On the disparity in the vaccine, I think we anticipated it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053966", "text": "You have the access to the vaccine, which is problematic all across the state, obviously, but we have significant special efforts in poor, black and brown communities.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053967", "text": "And we talked about this last year when the Trump administration said, Well, we'll tell you that the vaccine is safe.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053968", "text": "I believe in this vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053969", "text": "COVID exposed injustices, fundamental injustices that exist at all across the country.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053970", "text": "They don't trust the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053971", "text": "For the NAACP, we're not telling people to take the vaccine, not take the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053972", "text": "The Biden administration has put science, data and expertise first.", "issue": "science"}
{"id": "0000053973", "text": "Well, the federal government approved the vaccine, the Trump administration approved it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053974", "text": "This state was ambushed by COVID.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053975", "text": "I respect local governments and their role in education, but schools must open.", "issue": "education"}
{"id": "0000053976", "text": "This remote learning is a poor substitute for in-class teaching and this remote learning, when they do the studies, it will show discrimination in education caused by remote learning.", "issue": "discrimination"}
{"id": "0000053977", "text": "The main point of this site and everything we're doing is this, the vaccine is the weapon that will win the war we know that.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053978", "text": "The second is making the vaccine accessible and making it accessible in an equitable way.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053979", "text": "It's not that people are hesitant, it's that people don't trust the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053980", "text": "I don't trust the Trump administration but we set up a separate panel in New York, the best New York doctors, they approved this vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053981", "text": "The top black medical professionals in the United States of America say trust the vaccine it can save your life.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053982", "text": "I would not tell my mother to take the vaccine unless I believed in the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053983", "text": "They're skeptical, they're cynical about the vaccine and they're not willing to take it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053984", "text": "You are saving lives and this vaccine does save lives, and that's why it's so important that people know that and people accept it.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053985", "text": "And we have an opportunity because COVID caused a global crisis.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053986", "text": "You have two variables, the infection rate of the virus, by the way, variants of interest of the virus, hospitalization rate of the virus, effectiveness of the vaccine against the virus, that's one cluster of variables.", "issue": "virus"}
{"id": "0000053987", "text": "The site also doesn't provide any breakdown of how much vaccine is being delivered to different parts of the state and to which types of distribution sites like hospitals or pharmacies or governments.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053988", "text": "They're increasing production of the vaccine and they're going to give states projection allocations so states can plan.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053989", "text": "Again, don't get cocky with COVID because God forbid something happens with one of these new strains, UK strain, South African strain, Brazilian strain, California strain.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053990", "text": "A state cannot purchase vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053991", "text": "So all of those requirements that exist as a result of COVID continue, so none of that goes away.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053992", "text": "But without the vaccine, I don't think that number comes down.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053993", "text": "You go into the war with a plan and a strategy.", "issue": "war"}
{"id": "0000053994", "text": "We then tell the local governments what the vaccination is.", "issue": "vaccination"}
{"id": "0000053995", "text": "New York state was ground zero, New York state had a different problem with COVID than any other state.", "issue": "COVID"}
{"id": "0000053996", "text": "Some of the lawmakers who called for your resignation today include Congressman Jerry Nadler, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Congresswoman Grace Meng.", "issue": "resignation"}
{"id": "0000053997", "text": "We are going to make this vaccine available in the communities that have been hardest hit.", "issue": "vaccine"}
{"id": "0000053998", "text": "The leading Black medical professionals in the United States of America say take the vaccine.", "issue": "vaccine"}