Dear Friend,
Senator Edwards has been quite busy and we wanted to let you
know about some of the things he's been up to! Recently, he
delivered a very well-received speech to the Center for American
Progress in which he laid out his plan for fighting poverty in
America, and this past week he traveled to Moscow on behalf of
the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sen. Edwards and the Hon. Jack Kemp
(Red Square in Moscow)Mark Your Calendars!
Senator Edwards
will be on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart Wednesday,
October 5.
Harkin Steak Fry Video
Click
here to see the video of Senator Edwards' remarks at Senator
Tom Harkin's Steak Fry in Iowa.
Podcast
Please
remember to submit your
questions for the upcoming podcast, which will be released
next week.
Book Club
We will begin the next
book in October. Stay tuned!
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The Council on Foreign Relations Task
Force on US-Russia Relations
Senator Edwards serves as Co-Chairman of the bipartisan Council
on Foreign Relations Task Force, which assesses the relationship
between the U.S. and Russia. His co-chair on the task force is
former Congressman and Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, who joined
Senator Edwards on the trip. In Moscow the two of them met with
an array of officials and experts - including Kremlin officials,
Russian Duma (parliament) members, business leaders, NGO experts
and activists, and journalists - and they also had a chance to
meet some Russians as they walked through Moscow (Senator
Edwards says that the traffic there is so unbearable that they
found it easier to walk to many of their meetings). Now that
he's back, he and Mr. Kemp are preparing to convey their
findings to the task force, which will in turn issue a formal
report suggesting specific, bipartisan policies for improving
our relationship with Russia. Senator Edwards says during his
trip he heard many things that left him with a deep sense of
possibility for this relationship, but he also feels that he has
a greater appreciation of the challenges that he and the other
members of the task force will face as they try to improve that
relationship.
We'll be hearing more about the task force and its findings next
year, when the official report is published.
Click here to learn more about
the Council Task Force on Russian-American Relations.
Sen. Edwards Speaks at Center for
American ProgressDon't miss Thomas Oliphant's column
about Senator Edwards.
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Restoring the American Dream
On Monday September 21st, before leaving for Russia, Senator
Edwards spoke at the Center
for American Progress. He discussed the widespread poverty
exposed by Hurricane Katrina, and he proposed steps that we as a
nation can take to combat poverty in the Gulf Coast and across
the country.
Download
the MP3 of the speech, read the
speech, or watch
the video.
A key part of Senator Edwards' plan is the New America
Initiative. It's modeled after FDR's WPA program, which employed
millions of Americans during the Great Depression. Through the
New America Initiative, residents of the Gulf Coast region would
rebuild their communities with the help of the government,
nonprofit organizations, unions, and private businesses. This
concerted effort would restore the region, and it would provide
the residents with good-paying jobs and benefits. In addition,
the residents would develop valuable work skills that would
enable them to get good-paying jobs in the future. This
initiative could not only get the region and its people back on
their feet; it could make life better than it was before for the
thousands of Gulf Coast residents who were living and working in
poverty before Katrina struck.
To convince the President and leaders in Congress that this
initiative must be implemented, the call for it must be loud and
continuous. Thousands have already joined in. Please add your voice to this
call.
Thank you for your support! And if you haven't
already, please
visit our web site. There you will find regular updates on
Senator Edwards and the issues he's tackling, and you can also
participate on our Blog, which is frequently updated with new
threads and content. Check it out!
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