Yesterday, we approved 18 chairs and was pretty exciting for us. We had three contested races, and that included congresswoman rosa delauro, now chair of the Appropriations Committee, following in the footsteps of the first woman to serve in that capacity, nita lowey, paving the way. All three candidates were women for chair of the appropriations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, greg meeks of new york, greg meeks of new york, following in the footsteps of another new yorker, eliot engel. And the chair of the ag committee, david scott from georgia, the first africanamerican ever chosen to be the chair of the agriculture committee. Pretty exciting. Following in the footsteps of the great leadership of collin peterson. Greg meeks is also africanamerican. Pretty historic. A woman and africanamerican. In contested races. Throughout our leadership, half of the leadership were women and people of color in chairs of the committee. There are more chairs to be announced, but these ar
A couple days of electing our chairs. Yesterday we approved 18 chairs which is pretty exciting. 3 contested races, following in the footsteps of the first woman to serve in that capacity. The chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, greg meeks of new york, another new yorker, elliott angle, and the chair of the ag committee, david scott from georgia, first africanamerican chosen to be the chair of the Agriculture Committee following in the footsteps of the leadership of colin peterson. Greg meeks also africanamerican, prehistoric woman, pretty contested races but throughout, women or people of color, more chairs to be announced but these were the ones that related to rules and budgets related to steering and policy committee, two of the speakers announcement that were made and others follow. We held the house, pulled the gap 132 of them starting with 18 that were chosen yesterday. I am excited, when they made their presentations over several days this week it was a demonstration of valu
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48 after the event. Let me say a few words about our speaker. now in his second tm of te u. S. Civil rights commissions book the moral foundation of economic behavior was nominated for the highest book prize in his latest book which is the subject of our talk today is on why culture matters most. This is an extremely important book given the political and cultural crisis that we now find ourselves in here in america. Think about it, the institutions that are supposed to hand down the great cultural inheritance of western civilization, the civilization upon which the United States faced are failing miserably at the respective tasks in education, media, the arts, business, politics. Its hard to think of an Important Institution in America Today that takes seriously the virtues and the ideals that make it possible it requires a trust, high trust society. Many would argue that this is the one type of society we do not now have. We seem to be educating the next generation intellectually, mo
Important is it for pentagon operations and for the funding that those programs require . The National Defense authorization act, the ndaa, essentially its the defense policy bill. This is seen on the hill as one of the must need bill. This is essentially how muchby pay the military, haow many plane, how many ships were going to by. It includes policies regarding troop movements in some cases, overseas exercises, things like that. Its pretty much the bill that sets the military, in some cases, the next five years of military plan. Its seen in the pentagon as something they need to get done every year. Its seen in the Defense Community as a point of pride that they get it done every year. Its largely backed by the congressional leadership. This year, it might be a little tricky, well see what happens but theres a lot of confidence, at the end of the day, members of Congress Come together and actually make sure it gets through. So there are two different versions. The house and senate ve