Newt Gingrich says the basis for the current mortgage crisis is a result of policies pursued by the Carter and Clinton administrations which pushed to allow every American to own a home. (0:45)
Bill Clinton’s speech and at the Talk Radio News Radio Row
Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hosted a conference call on the upcoming National Clean Energy Summit which will be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Mid-August. Reid said one only needs to look at a corner gas station to know that the energy crisis is serious. The summit on clean energy can lead to developments that are good for the economy, good for the environment, and good for jobs.
Dan Weiss, Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress, said the summit’s goal is to develop a consensus on energy policies for the next President that participants can bring to their respective party conventions next month.
Former President Bill Clinton said the government needs to take a leading role in making a commitment to a national clean energy policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Clinton said he is particularly excited about the summit bringing together the leaders and the American community to solve the climate crisis. Reid said the American people are overwhelmingly supportive of renewable energy, and that he is aware that a “drill, drill, drill” policy will not make gas prices any lower. (23:33)
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D- MD) focused on the rising price of gas in his weekly sit-down with reporters. He showed a series of charts that indicated the rise in the price of gas over the last 16 years. Under the Clinton administration, Hoyer said, the price of gasoline went from $1.06 to $1.46 in the course of Clinton’s eight years. A separate chart demonstrated that under the Bush administration gas has gone from $1.46 to $4.06, which is the current national average. This is the House Democrat response to the campaign against the “Pelosi Premium” pointing out the price rise under Bush instead of under Democratic majority in Congress. All of Hoyer’s data came from the Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy.
Hoyer admitted that across Congress all the energy plans being offered are mostly designed at long term relief. He said that Democrats have done their part to reduce prices by passing anti-gouging legislation and working toward regulation of speculators, but that there are very few things that Congress can do to reduce prices in the short term. In response to the Republican measures that call for more drilling and more refining capacity, Hoyer pointed out statistics that suggested that drilling in ANWR would only lead to a 1.8 cent drop in gas prices by 2030.
Hoyer also mentioned Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introducing articles of impeachment against President George Bush, taking up a total of four and a half hours of floor time. Hoyer said that he expect this to be referred to committing with out a second read-through, effectively tabling the bill.
The historic presidential campaign of New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton came to an end as she delivered an enthusiastic “thank-you” turned “Barack Obama endorsment” speech to thousands of her supporters.
Clinton’s speech, while coming at the end of a long, sometimes bitter battle against Obama, was both reflective of the accomplishments she made during her run to try and secure the Democratic presidential nomination, and was a platform she used to offer her support to the Illinois Senator. (more…)
Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, talks emphatically about the need for independent media with Talk Radio News Correspondent Elia Herman at the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, MN. She also traces her journey as a journalist from her first job as an envelope stuffer for her younger brother’s home press to a controversial interview with President Bill Clinton in 2000 (16:32)
Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, speaks about her endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president and the specific challenges in foreign relations that the next president will have to face. (10:36)
Talk Radio News Service Bureau Chief Ellen Ratner interviews Mike McCurry, a White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton and currently a spokesman for the Hillary Clinton campaign. McCurry speaks about strategy, Hillary’s debate performance and Super Tuesday. (5:23)
Ellen Ratner interviews President Clinton at the Radio Row in Manchester, NH about his wife Senator Clinton (D-NY) and her campaign as New Hampshire votes in the first presidential primary election.
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