s. this legislation is quite, quite frankly, long overdeuvment for decades inspectors general have acted as independent northern partisan watchdogs helping congress prevent and uncover waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government and assure our taxpayer dollars are being used appropriately. the counselor of the inspectors general recent annual report to congress estimated that inspectors general saved american taxpayers more than $50 billion last year alone. it's absolutely vital that our federal watchdogs are able to work independently and without the threat of political interference. current law allows for action that is threaten to undermine this independence, including the removal of inspectors general from office without sufficient explanation, and the appointment of partisan political operatives to serve in these traditionally nonpartisan roles. these actions and others have left inspectors general and their critical work vul negotiable political influence and that is simply u

public opinions from 19 70's through 1990's and college professor o'connell on legacies. find more information on your program guide. here is professor john pitney. >> first point i want to make that for the first century and change of american history presidents didn't give all that many speeches. we have seen president's washington farewell address which was ghost written, who ghost wrote it, hamilton, of course. if you saw the play there's the famous song one last time. people called it an address. washington never gave it as a speech. washington never gave that address as a speech. it was all in writing. presidents gave inaugural addresses. occasionally gave speeches on other occasions, but if they communicated with the public it was generally in writing, sometimes official presidential messages. sometimes unofficial political communication through proxies. political allies would put out material supporting their political position. that happened quite a bit in the 19th century. why was this? because the norms were different. there was an expectation that presidents s

they referred to the cold war specifically in period of the 50's and 60's. we think of the cold war entire period between world war ii and closing of the soviet union on christmas day in 1981. but we didn't know in 1983 that the berlin wall was going to fall in 1989. if you had gone to a time machine in 1983, 8 years from now the soviet union will close, the soviet union will dissolve, component parts of the soviet union will split off in independent countries and at least for a while they'll be free elections in russia. of course, thicks kind of change with vladimir putin a little later. but the old soviet union collapses. i mean, people would have thought you were crazy if you would have said such a thing. 1983, it was still a growing concern. people were fearful of the soviet union and the san sovietn was afraid of the united states. there were times where the cold war might have gotten that. we avoided that. if we hadn't avoided that, we wouldn't be here today. so reagan wanted to send a very clear message. now, again, he thought he could mobilize the ev

to vote act, and s. 4 the john lewis voting rights advancement act and s. 2615, the right to vote act. as some states and political operatives around the country seek to roll back voter protection laws and gerrymander voting districts congress must act to strengthen the freedom to vote and ensure elections are safe and accessible. since its original passage in 1965 the voting rights act safeguards the rights of historically marginalized voters at the polls. sadly, the u.s. supreme court's 2013 ruling in shelby county versus holder gutted key voting rights act protections. earlier this year, in july of 2021 the supreme court issued another split decision ruling further that law in its decision in vrn very much versus the -- in brnovich versus the d.o.c. over the years this democracy has seen a crisis in access to the polls and it's been worsened recently as republican-led state legislatures have implemented policies that disproportionately suppress the voting rights of people of color the elderly college students, and those living in rural areas among others. those same political opera

the presiding officer: under the provisions of s. res. 27, there will now be up to four hours of debate on the motion equally divided between the two leaders or their designees with no motions, points of order or amendments in order. mr. schumer: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. schumer: mr. president. i ask that the time during the quorum call be equally divided. the presiding officer: without objection, mr. leader. mr. schumer: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president. mr. barrasso: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. barrasso: i come to oppose the democrats reckless spending spree bill. right now the democrats are pushing a big government socialist agenda. i mean, no question about it. they want additional permanent welfare programs. they want -- to me this bankrupt current program, like medicar

can you not do with the t7, why don't you buy more t7's? >> first of all there may not be a capability gap and there might not be anything that we need to do, but the flipside is there might be other industry solutions either added to the airplane just now or frankly completely new airframe and so you are correct, it may be able to fill most of their needs, but going from training to fire training will unambiguously generate a size, weight and power requirement because we aren't just going to take off and land which are key parts of every mission. we need to make sure our landing people are capable. at the other piece of it is that there will be-- i suspect an increased demand for sensor capability whether that be small radar, small jammer, i suspect, but i don't know that there will be increased fuel requirement and afterburner use, i expect there to be at least a small weapons computing capability on their at least for a nine higher missile capability and simulation playback that either has real or simulated or constructed threat awarenes

wice: if i could just add, what we don't want to see a s. a return to the situation we had up until 1965, whether the tenets of section 5 preclearance was the rule against retrogression that you had to maintain for redistricting purposes the same number of districts in your new plan that you had in the old plan that you not retrogress. i know that in texas, draft plans are now circulating where allegedly minority districts might be eliminated or weakened if that's the case, had section 5 been in effect those plans could not have been used. it's a very basic rule of thumb that you had to have simply the same number of districts in your new plan as the old plan. so we wouldn't want to see a situation in texas, let's say, where minority districts, if they're still effectively electing the preferred candidate of choice of the minority community is eliminated. we need to be careful there. we don't want to see laws, i mentioned texas, harris downy was a predom naptly minority voting politic, where they're denied the right to vote certain hours on

also cotton main export of the united states till the 1930's. somebody has to harvest it and taken away the source of free labor so what do they do? substitute it with slavery, sharecropping, laws that allow idle black men to be picked off the street and be put on the chain and then the depression, the great depression until 1920's. they changed the name. the right to vote was guaranteed by federal troops located in those 5 -- 10 confederate states that we have been talking about, divided into 5 military districts and federal troops protected the right to vote for black men and then conservative supreme court, many of the justices appointed by abraham lincoln starting in 1876 that said the 14th amendment is about state action and private action or private behavior and then the famous civil rights cases of 1883 struck down civil rights act of 1875. black people had rights in 1875. 100 years to almost get back. it was not until the passing of the civil rights act of 1964 and voting rights act of 1965 that the black rights guarantied by the constit

the s. 1 bill, they couldn't get the voats to bring it up in the senate. senate manchin was first to oppose now senator manchin has come back with a compromise that would essentially set new standards against partisan gerrymandering. so that bill, the intent is that regardless of when congress passes it, any redistricting plan can be challenged in court even after they're enacted for a period of years looking backwards. there's no federal law at this point outside of the voting rights act, the 14th amendment, and the all quaw -- equal population requirement that federal law has jurisdiction over. there is really -- that is really left to state and local laws. the current bill s. 1 or its current iteration in the senate would create a wholly new standard for giving courts more power to reject redistricting plans based on partisan grounds. that bill has not gained traction yet. mr. braden: there's still gerrymandering as a cause of action as we speak right now in federal court is pretty much dead. there's, i guess you can dream up some way it could be alive

having personally lived through the 1970's and 1980's, i've seen inflation happen firsthand i've seen it bring many businesses down and to put it in simple terms inflation is a vicious cycle like a dog chasing its tail and the tail is on fire. of course the biden administration has been throwing gasoline on this fire since the moment they took office. today's inflation crisis began with joe biden's boondoggle stimulus bill and the proceeding labor shortages. for months now we've seen help wanted signs everywhere from the small mom and pop shops on main street to big hotel chains and fast-food restaurants, employers are struggle to fill the open jobs they have despite raising wages and offering return to wornlg bonuses. this shortage is having a ripple effect across our economy from slowing down the supply logistics chains to putting an unfair burden on employees who choose to show up. this ripple has turned into a tidal wave of inflation, and now a full-flown tsunami. but the storm waves don't stop there. the cost of living increase as a result of production delays caused by labor sho

's and college professor o'connell on legacies. find more information on your program guide. here is professor john pitney. >> first point i want to make that for the first century and change of american history presidents didn't give all that many speeches. we have seen president's washington farewell address which was ghost written, who ghost wrote it, hamto

s work. i religious read all p.a.r.'s white papers and research papers. everybody i know who cares about my state takes their suggestions seriously. and to be the director or the president of p.a.r., it's quite an honor. it's a lot of work and it's a big deal. and our president of p.a.r. is retiring. he's a friend of mine. his name is robert travis scott. and i want to say a word about robert. robert's a graduate of the university of south carolina with honors, graduate of johns hopkins. he's done it all. i first met -- and robert has been president of p.a.r. since 2011. but before that he was the capital bureau chief for our newspaper, new orleans. that's how i got to know him. robert is -- was never an agenda journalist. and we know that those journalists, particularly in the print media, exist. they exist in electronic media. i couldn't tell you today what robert's politics are. i don't even know what party he's in. i don't know if he's in a party. he was always, when he was a reporter, a straight shooter. called it like he saw it. played it straight d

s jurisdiction. but so i think we've got an outstandingly strong process of appropriately using our documentary subpoena and we'll build on that and ensure that we appropriately handle testimonial subpoena. senator hassan: you've got a system in place and can use those restreus oversee the documentary subpoena process so it won't be abused? ms. lerner: yes. it has a greater impact on people. senator hassan: you referenced it a bit but if concerns are raised about an i.g.'s use of the documentary subpoena authority how are those concerned addressed? ms. lerner: there are a couple of different avenues. if there's any question of, you know, political or partisan or problematic reasons behind a subpoena, that's a matter that could go to sigi's integrity committee but i also imagine >> to examine the use of this by inspectors general to have appropriate procedures in place and factor that into the ultimate assessment that happens periodically of all ig investigative operations. >> briefly we have to get t

s finding? general nakasone: i certainly accept the i.g.'s findings. we need to talk what the i.g. findings stated. the fact that mr. ellis had two significant security allegations -- mr. nunes: glad you're getting there. we'll get to that. we're coming to that, if you can let me get through my questions and i'll give you a chance, an opportunity to discuss that. the i.g. also found there was no improper political influence by the trump white house towards ellis' appointment. did you believe at the time that there was political influence? >> nak -- general nakasone: it was the process upon which i was being advised. that the individual had to have a merit-based review. this is what caused a bit of the confusion. but later on we found out and the d.o.d. cleared up there was not a need for a merit-based review. mr. nunes: you don't dispute the i.g.'s findings on this question? general nakasone: i do not, ranking member. mr. nunes: it came from anonymous sources who told "the washington post," among other things, that you opposed lieutenant commander ellis' hiring. these anonymous sou

the clerk: s. res. 418, expressing support for the designation of october 3 through october 9, twupt, as national 4- h -- 2021, as national 4-h week. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the motion. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of senate resolution 422, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 422, authorizing the use of the atrium in the phillip a. hart senate building for a bipartisan halloween dog parade on october 27, 2021. mr. schumer: thank god we got this one through. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the p

the clerk: s. res. 409 designating the week beginning october 17, 2021, at national character counts week. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. schumer: i know of no further debate on the resolution. the presiding officer: if there is to further debate, the question is on the resolution. all those in favor, say aye. those opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the resolution is agreed to. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the preamble be agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. thursday, october 7. that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for

before like -- like the 1990's i say,let say 1980, okay. black people were the only population singled out for hypersegregation, right. latinos were moderately segregated, right. this is douglas matthews book american apartheid. at one point in the 20th century there were nearly 50 hypersegregated cities in this country and -- and all of them were places where the great migrants ended up in large numbers, right. so the segregation has been a defining feature of the african-american experience and continues to have consequences till this day. in the case of reparations, the atlantic magazine, for african-american making a hundred thousand dollars tends to live in a neighborhood where the amenities of what whites making $40,000 gets, right? so -- but as the latinx, hispanic populations grew with immigration, there are two -- some areas new york and la where some hispanics become hypersegregated but it's not the defining feature. the defining feature of oppression for latino people i would say is, you know, the sort of anti-immigrant rhetoric,

. >> last week i came to the floor and supported s scottsville pushing back on what many of us consider the unconstitutional covid-19 mandates. i use my floor time to describe the transparency of our healthcare industries in talking about the information that are healthcare agencies media and the news media, are now providing to the american public. i've come to the floor today to expand a little bit on that information, and last week, i presented this chart. it shows the daily number of new cases, the blue lines, you actually have the tragic deaths, the very thin red line and you also have this line showing the percent of fully vaccinated americans. now, i've pointed this to this chart, because this is not what i would've expected to see if we had 100 percent effective vaccines rated now the me again say, is a big support of operation warp speed and i'm not an anti- vaccination. about every vaccineac up to this one because i had covid-19. i hoped and prayed, that the covid-19 vaccine would be 100 percent safe and effective. but this chart is not what i would expect to have seen with a

. >> and infrastructure addresses this hard s assets godsend. >> yourlation it's afterst guard i know you just visited recruiting and inclusive coast guard.nd potential shutdown a apop seconds the jim clyburn helpful, a new program in north and one in florida that's two on top north carolina but i think buying up a couple of for former postcards and we could touch schools and communities and icy for becoming eight becoming 30g new authorities cited gets going to get us places we haven't been before. that was more than two seconds i apologize. >> next, i'llofmmittee, sandra. >> thank you this important hearing. get a more dedicated group of peo side coasters of making sure the coast guard has the resources it needs master vander h on my colleague, senator blumenthal's question. you know i sent this letter recently abo assault. i want to say we'ven childcare in the coas guard and the efforts expanding healthcare in the coast guard definitely appreciate those efforts. work with you oamily leave, coast guard leading the way in getting paid family leave. i think you recognize 40% of your w

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[laughter] 's he winds up around the trump white house, if you can believe that. i insisted that he come here. i don't think he knows anything about the economy but he has a great story to tell. [laughter] 's head of forbes media, longtime leader in supply-side and politics in communications, but rock man great principles. my brother, steve moore similarly we've been in about every insurrection you can imagine here in washington. she's been married to steve all these years and deserves a hand for just that alone. [laughter] i'm sorry. judy shelton, great monetary expert and great friend of ours. both reagan and trump people and many in between the steadfast person of great principle. i want to begin with what steve forbes mentioned on our show a few moments ago which is important, the relationship between economic strength and home national security military strength abroad. sometimes it's characterized as weakness at home and weakness abroad but i think it's more properly characterized as strength at home as strength abroad. one leads to the other. to some extent

and 1990's. speaking of the 1990's, as a theft of intellectual property by china and chinese companies is one we're still fighting, blatant theft in the 1990's despite president clinton and his team. they were focused on software and movies, but that seems quaint today given today's battle about artificial intelligence, biotechnology and dual use technologies. safeguarding global financial stability is critical. here again reading today's wall street journal you see the property market in china in meltdown. does it have financial implications not only in china, but in financial institutions outside of china? that's a key point in the public markets, but china as a large creditor has a policy of predatory and neo colonial lending in the emerging world. in my view, that is not a constructive way to achieve financial stability. hence, my firm and continued objection to the biden treasury massive approval of special drawing rights imf in the name of poor countries building reserves in the face of the

his superior john jay foster used a phrase that ulysses s. grant would use a few days later 100 miles to the east demanding unconditional surrender. it was just as well. stephenson's men were in the sweep of the shoreline found federal can -- several confederate using the delay to escape by small boats in and stephenson's men rounded them up. in the battle they performed well in an unexpectedly difficult conditions. zero it to the rain and the guns exposed he wrote his official report many of the men had difficult they fired them. his men moved into position and then got an unwelcome surprise. thompson on a right which i supposed to have no guns on the lan side open up as soon as they got into position. with support from the union the confederates retreated fastidiously stopping only to reload musketry. before cat should last six rebels raise the american flag. shortly thereafter on march 20 and 21st event since 24th massachusetts set up the river on an expedition to washington. in deserted town by the time they arrive so stevenson landed two

we had a similar service until the late 1990's. i think in the 1990's with the collapse of the soviet union there was a period when we really thought the united states would always be the only great superpower from there ever after. the only country that was going to maintain that role in the world. now what you have is a very aggressive and resurgent china and also russia. there is a usefulness now to have how tax. it seems like a smart premise. -- jonathan: breaking down language barriers can lead us to better understand china's goals. i am wondering, if this is enacted and the translation service center gets erected, do you think we would then develop more ominous understanding of china's goals? or more benign? do you think by this greater understanding, what you think the takeaways would be of the china we live in today? or that we live with today. we are not in china. rep. castro: this is not necessarily have to be something that in flames tensions towards china. there is already in the united states, and in the congress -- [n

[applause] ♪♪ 's. >> thank you guys. thank you guys. [applause] jennifer andni jesse, the stages yours. >> welcome to california. >> thank you for having me. i cannot believe you guys invited juan williams here before me. [laughter] >> i know. [laughter] >> i spent all weekend reading your book. i loved it. if you have not read it yet, it is equal parts memoir, current events analysis which is really cool and. i loved it because as a fan of yours, visualizing you talking to me in that book. i think you did a really great job. what made you decide to write this book during the pandemic,zy during the crazy impeachment part two and election year, what was the catalyst? >> i needed the money. [laughter] not going alive. i needed the money. [laughter] i had gotten into a point in my life where i have the time to reflect on 20 years at fox news and covering the news. from the o'reilly factor to waters world to the o'reilly five, i just wanted to share these stories. i decided to write the book in a month later the pandemic kit. i had no excus

s recommendations as part of your own strategic plan? and then also, and i'm working off of the packet that i assume y'all handed over to us on page 5, the demographic diversity in the i.c. and following up on the point that representative speier made, the most underrepresented group in the intelligence community and in the federal work force is the latino community, by far. they make up 18.6% of the pop population. and 7%. i.c. it's a huge gap. i would ask you because that's the largest gap by far, to prioritize hiring, recruiting, promoting latinos in the intelligence community. if you could address those things. then i have at least one more question, hopefully. director haines: thank you very much, representative castro. appreciate your own work on these issues. first of all in response to the d.a.o. report there wasn't a report before i arrived. i'm not responsible for it. to do d.o.d. joint strategy to eadvance diversity and inclusion in the intelligence community. it is still a document we are working off of. it is dated, it was d

the fastest way to help student debtholders are people in their 60's. retirement and a whole bunch of things. >> thank you. next up, we will talk about voting rights. this is an important thing for you. with the election of the big lie, we saw republican ages perpetrating false narratives. 18 republican attorney generals led by ken paxton filed a lawsuit against battleground states to overthrow the election results. why is it important to have democratic ages serving in battleground states like michigan and wisconsin? >> without democratic ages in the swing states -- ag's in the swing states, we don't have a democracy in the united states of america. these efforts to overturn the election results, i don't even like calling it over trendy election. it was an attempted coup by the then president of the united states, donald trump. but for the fact that we had the attorney general in states like pennsylvania and wisconsin and michigan and nevada, we will not have an outcome. joe biden won the state of michigan by 154,000 votes. that is not even close. extr

then there's the decision that can be implemented by the s healthcare system and a similar process s has been conducted by the cdc that the advisory committee holds a public meeting were scientific experts weigh in on the data and questions then following the meeting the cdc takes their input into account and may seem clinical recommendation for f healthcare providers. to summarize if it makes their advice and decision if it's part of the process and they provide for the fda and cdc and make their ultimate decision the process is not new. it's been around long before covert 19. during the pandemic the process has been implemented for major decisions from initial vaccine authorization for pfizer, mothen a and j andpf j to the authorization of the vaccine for children 12 to 16 and most recently the booster shot recommendation. it's worth reviewing the process but in the next month for two important decisions. firstor a decision about whether to authorize booster shots for modern a and j and j and then the decision whether to authorize the vaccines for children under 12. we anticipate h

s jurisdiction. so i think we've got an outstandingly strong process of appropriately using our documentary subpoena, and we ought to build on that and insure that we appropriately are handle testimonial subpoenas. >> so you've got a system in place, and you can use the same kind of parameters and structures and reviews to oversee the documentary subpoena process so it wouldn't be abused. >> absolutely. and we will build on them. because, obviously, what we're asking for here, it takes us a step beyond finish. >> right. >> -- and it has a greater impact on people. >> right. and you referenced it just a bit, but if concerns are raised about an i.g.'s use of the documentary subpoena authority, how are those concerns addressed? >> there are a couple of different avenues. if there's any question of, you know, political or partisan or problematic reasons behind a subpoena, that's a matter that could go to the integrity committee. but i also imagine if we're given the authority, we would build steps into o

the segue of the 40s and 50's it became a female rent agency and she sent the models over there and an interesting connection for me was in a real entry point for me as a scholar and an entry point for the barbizon for women was mademoiselle magazine which again in the 80s i remember mademoiselle magazine as a not very good fashion magazine but it has this remarkable history. it started in the mid-1930s and was run by women. it was known as the bible for every college girl because you learned not only what to wear and what to talk about what to read in the early 1940s mademoiselle magazine started a program and it was the way it basically to bring in the crÈme de la crÈme of young women across america, bring them in and have them stay at the barbizon. there were these training grounds of different organizational, that in many ways was doing what the barbizon was also trying to do and also sort of the complexity of being very feminized places with feminized reputations and so forth so it was complex and a fascinating story to find all of these entry points. >> the women were testing o

the vaccines and the shareholders s and then you need pools of liquidity. and then to ensure they had a vaccine. and the answer that we would elove to attack is then the aggregate that enables us and then to level up. [applause]e] >> . >> . >> these vaccines ensure that mutation jab job job is jobs jobs jobs.t >> that is produced. >> some of our generation to go with the world. how do we look at the ambition of paris. and the government can do it alone. the other day. >> then to see them up close. >> and then to straight across. and then with the office window. and then to save the planet. he does not respond to the and then with the and that is the difference between radical and optimism and hopelessly divided. [laughter] then to push this way and that way. >> or the skipper of a cruise line. right way and then that the schools were safer. and then for the rollout. [applause] >> with public anxiety and confusion. >> and then working the human weathervane the. [laughter] [applause] >> in with the funding that we pay toward the nhs. just to disseminate those

after that, to rescue the republic on president ulysses s grant. to the report on the transition between the trump and biden administration and wrapping up our look at some of "the new york times" best-selling nonfiction books is midnight in washington, that's california democratic congressman adam schiff's argument that the trump presidency has weakened america's institution. and that is a look at this week's publishing news and the latest nonfiction books. thanks for joining us on about books. and a reminder that about books is available as a podcast on c-span's app, c-span now, or wherever you get your podcast. s. >> tonight cnn anchor best-selling author anderson cooper chronicles the rise and fall of the legendary american dynasty, his mother's family the vanderbilts. we are joined by catherine howell, a new york times best-selling author of historical fiction and an academic who brings

i visited hong kong in the late 80's. it was a delightful trip. there was vibrancy, freedom -- >> we lost you again. bad connection, perhaps? >> can you hear me now? the bottom line is, you have said the things i feel. i mourn the loss is a freedom in hong kong and i see the people have stood up as heroes. i admire them and we need to do all we can to help open up our country to the people who want to leave hong kong and find freedom here and we need to stand up to china for the repression of the uighurs and the hong kong citizenry. the loss of freedom is horrific. it's oppression and we need to protect it. >> thank so much. we have both worked for years together. it is great to have you here today joining in this effort. i would like to welcome our distinguished panel. three are here in person and to -- two have a personal connection. again, i thank them. these are five people who are truly expert and have lead on these issues. it is an honor to have you here. we look forward to your insight and your counsel. professor michael davis is a global f

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in those days, mind you this was in the mid-1960's. women and girls were told that if he did not have a. , take pills, sit in a tub of water or use a coat hanger if nothing else worked. my mother noticed i became introverted and quiet so she asked me what was going on with me. at that point, i told her everything. i told her i might be pregnant. she responded with love. she was supportive and sympathetic and told the doctor i was pregnant. my mother asked me if i wanted to get an abortion. she did demand or force me but understood that this was my personal decision and one i had to make. she would support me regardless. mind you, i was the first black cheerleader in my high school, got very good grades, active in my church, and a member of the honor society and an accomplished pianist. in fact, i won two music scholarships. i felt embarrassed and thought if anybody found out, my life would be destroyed. it was so important for me to have somebody i trusted to help me with this decision. once i made this decision carefully, one of my mo

.s. special envoy. currently serving as a founding partner and a key supporter and participant in the ra center founded by neal now d.c. circuit judge to encourage debate on constitutional and practicalhe proper role as administrative agencies in the constitutional separation of powers. please join me in welcoming him. thank you for joining [app you have no idea. i am by this the person who was being honored. the two people being honored. the justice for his commitmen to constitutional regionalism liberty and to the rule of law and to the getting the first principles award and i have often wondered day. [laughter] over the last 20 or 30 years because there is a certain resignations and there are many areas that deeply interest are shared questions. i looked at the judge's history. i followed it very closely. very exciting what they did. i listened for anything that could explain his administrative law expertise prior to him g court in 1985. of very important intelligence report. he served as deputy atto

s decisions so that parents can get their kids vaccinated quickly, easily, and conveniently. next, i want to highlight important progress we're making in ramping up both the availability of testing, particularly at-home testing, and access to free testing. we are on track to have more than 200 million rapid at-home tests available to americans each month starting in december. that's more than four times the level of supply in late summer. and we're also on track to increase the number of places americans can access free testing to 30,000 community-based locations. and this week, the f.d.a. and n.i.h. took additional steps that will make even more tests available and help reduce testing costs. first, f.d.a. authorized another over-the-counter at-home test. the ninth test to come to market in the last 10 months. giving consumers more choices. second, f.d.a. announced that at-home tests will now be able to sold in single test packs, meaning americans will have more options and no have to buy -- no longer have to buy two-test packs. that will also make tests more affordable and a

we need acronyms that only sound like 1980's rock bands. it is not a perfect solution, because just when you say is in the building materials does not mean it is also insured, but it is a good way to start incentivizing knowing what is in your products, knowing what is in your inventory, and the importance of this software supply chain, and we have got world-class experts who are helping us because we are the globally in global supply chain. alan friedman just came over to us from nift, but i am excited about that executive order because it really puts us in the lead for things that i think, i hope, i intend will help us make a real difference in cybersecurity, and i do not think anybody can look at that and say the status quo is acceptable. it is not. we are working with congress to reform the federal infrastructure monetization security act and einstein and are continuing diagnostic and mitigation programs. some exciting space and a lot of great parties in the coming years. >> a hundred percent and at the tectonic shifts happening in the

in the early 1970's when roe v. wade was being discussed, abortion advocates understood it as an appendage of sorts, but now we understand so, so much more about it. according to the american college of pediatricians and the association of american physicians and surgeons, they said this -- we now know that the unborn child is a living human being rapidly developing from the moment of conception and capable of feeling pain long before viability. even in the pre-viability period, the child's heartbeat, the child can express himself or herself through other actions and respond to other actions outside the home. in short, as basic embryology textbooks now teach, life begins at conception to the -- to the surprise of nobody in the medical profession. dr. skop, can you speak to the development of a child who has not been born yet? is it fair to consider this an issue? dr. skop: we now know so much. some people want to call it fetal cardiac activity instead of a heartbeat. blood vessels exist from about the 16th day after

powell died of convocations due to covid-19 and is sad and ironic that a minute spent so much of his s life helping othe, anfrom danger again and then did from a common enemy, too many of our fellow citizens continue to deny this giving the virus and opportunity to replicate and wreak havoc. we are not each other's enemies, the viruses the enemy and today claimed the life of an american statesman. by this time tomorrow, will taken another 1500, americans, family members and neighbors anm heroes to many. especially for young children who can't get vaccinated yet and for the millions of americans with compromised immune systems, we have really got to increase our vaccination rates. washingt. host: >> joining us for discussion on covid-19 related deaths and other related information in rural areas, right of your skin, the director of the role of policy research institute also joining us on the left, university bio public health research program director and other to both of you, thank you for giving us your time. >> described the work of the rural policy research institute particular when

s presidency but for the new deal deals tennessee valley authority tba -- tv and the chicago holding company. the commonwealth and edison behemoth customers electricity and gas in 32 states was consumed more than any other country in the world saving themselves 600,000 chicagoans were commonwealth and edison's winter of 1929 great depression collapse. not all utility holding companies were stacked pyramid's. their capitalization their regional services unregulated and overpriced as with his commonwealth edison deserve their castigation as the spiderweb of wall street. publicly directed at the chicago kingpin raise the prospect of entire industry being punished with federal sanctions. campaigning two months before the 1932 presidential outcome franklin roosevelt famously lamed the depression spreading missouri on men like samuel ansell and blamed federal electrocution of federal companies. the president said it are transforming the government's world war i power investment in muscle shoals alabama into the tennessee valley authority was among the first of the new deals prodigious 100

and ii don't think that he did s of that sorthi of betrayal of hm became our it made him interesting to me as a person want to try to do in the book is mostly create one single continuous personality go progress and during the french revolution did not suddenly become incompetent, he never was incompetent. and i think that isly very true that french historical memory is not lafayette rate him as highly as an american historiography does. and i think a friend generate him and he is not ours because thereer friends and they know their own history they got a right which is often something that i would feel when we talk about this. it's more the case that the french have their own running battles about the french revolution that are on the going to this verybo day like the freh revolution continues to be alive thing in french politics. these other people like they have a home inside of the debate like 20 think about road spirit, there are people sporting and people are, is very much alive figured people who will defend him. and lafayette's position whereer he is simultaneously trying to

in those days, mind you this was in the mid-1960's. women and girls were told that if he did not have a. , take pills, sit in a tub of water or use a coat hanger if nothing else worked. my mother noticed i became introverted and quiet so she asked me what was going on with me. at that point, i told her everything. i told her i might be pregnant. she responded with love. she was supportive and sympathetic and told the doctor i was pregnant. my mother asked me if i wanted to get an abortion. she did demand or force me but understood that this was my personal decision and one i had to make. she would support me regardless. mind you, i was the first black cheerleader in my high school, got very good grades, active in my church, and a member of the honor society and an accomplished pianist. in fact, i won two music scholarships. i felt embarrassed and thought if anybody found out, my life would be destroyed. it was so important for me to have somebody i trusted to help me with this decision. once i made this decision carefully, one of my mo

wholesale inflation just mark s the steepest jump on record. even dollar stores are having to raise their prices. just ask any american family about the last few trips to the supermarket, the gas station, or the toy store. heaven forbid if they have had to participate in the housing market or the auto market anytime lately. and the democrats are uniting run another multitrillion dollar taxing and spending spree. i guess our colleagues think they can inflate their way out of inflation. that is going to be in extraordinarily painful experiment for the middle class families of our country. >> madam president and listen closely to the speech by thehe republican senate leader. i've heard statements made over the weekend on television. i think this is a moment where we might consider it just a minute or two on senate 101 so there is an understanding of where we are and why we are at this place. there are 100 members of the senate. currently there are 50 democrats and 50 republicans. under the ordinary course of business, which has become extraordinar