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...share an electrical grid, and Denmark can take power from its neighbors when there's no wind and sell it when the breeze blows. But it also has something to do with the way people in the region think. "This is a place where people are highly motivated to address climate change," says Annie Petsonk, international counsel for the Washington-based Environmental Defense Fund. "Denmark says, 'We can do this, come join...
...didn't use those words exactly. But he came pretty close. "We will rebuild. We will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before," he announced upon taking the podium on Tuesday for his first presidential address before a joint session of Congress...
Steele was in DuPage to deliver the keynote address at the county Republicans' dinner celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Lincoln, America's first Republican President. It was remarkable, considering that Illinois rarely receives serious attention from national Republicans. George H.W. Bush was the last Republican presidential candidate to carry Illinois, in 1988. In recent years, Illinois' Republican Party has been so neutered that, in 2004, it imported Alan Keyes from Maryland to compete against Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat. So Steele's visit demonstrates a key aspect of his strategy for reviving the party: planting...
...President of the United States will give maybe half a dozen speeches and make public remarks at twice as many events. But often the words that history remembers are delivered only once a year, usually in January or February, when the President travels the length of Pennsylvania Avenue to address a joint session of Congress. This is the moment when the President gets to set out the broad sweep of his plans, propose benchmarks for success and establish the tenor of his Administration...
...before a joint session that John F. Kennedy announced in 1961 his plan to land a man on the moon "before this decade is out." "The era of big government is over," Bill Clinton declared before a joint session in 1996. In 2002 George W. Bush used his address before Congress to denounce the "axis of evil, arming to threaten peace in the world"; his foreign policy vision will forever define his legacy. (See George W. Bush's 10 best YouTube moments...