Risking their lives instead of staying at home on the ohio river and risking their lives a little bit less. So pike makes the same request of congress. He forged letters from jefferson and dearborn and secretary of state James Madison and things like that in congress, the committee reviewing the request votes in favor of granting him this but by this point the expedition is inextricable from the politics dividing congress over jefferson and burr and wilkinson in general and Congress Never votes. My guess, there is no record of why they dont vote. No one made the decision not to vote but the last evidence we have in the congressional record as of the Committee Voting to bring it to a vote on the floor and then it just disappears until the 1840s when we have a comments by his widow clara who is requesting that the reward be paid to her. By this point she is destitute. Then she dies before they do anything. My guess about whats going on is twofold. One is burr is acquitted and he has a lo
Questions from the back cue. Were using the microphone in the back of the room. And again, general rules. If one can identify ones self, we get cracking. Steve wu again. I wanted to thank you for your thoughtprovoking paper. One of the things ive been thinking about is generally the transition from physical to digital and how the law doesnt seem to have caught up. And the example that i give is in the 1990s when i was really first thinking about the internet and i was trying to do, quote unquote, computer law, i saw some of the cases having to do with Insurance Coverage for the loss of some kind of data center. And a claim was put in by the insured to seek compensation for not only the loss of the hardware but also the loss of the data. Of course policies werent very sophisticated at that time but the courts said you can cover for the loss of the hardware but data intangible and not covered by the eyes of the policy and in the eyes of the court, this data have no worth. And im saying t
To what we heard over the weekend from senator graham and from others. And i think what were going to see in the coming weeks is probably more of these sort of closed briefings to try and figure out what exactly is going on on the ground there. Obviously one of the immediate concerns is the safety and security of the embassy facility in baghdad and other issues with u. S. Personnel who are on the ground there. But the other thing thats going to come up and senator graham was one of the people who mentioned this over the weekend is that if there are in fact, as were now seeing reports that there are these back channel negotiations or conversations of some sort with the iranian regime, that will be something that will certainly get the attention of congress. And it tells you what kind of a world that were dealing with and that were seeing in iraq if talking to the iranians is necessary for regional stability, which is something that im sure not a lot of people could have fathomed just a
The union between the two democracies, and we look forward to the next chapter in his extraordinary life. May it be as remarkable as those that preceded it. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the majority leader of the United States senate of the honorable harry reid. [applause] today we are gathered to honor a man whos dedicated his entire life to making the world a better place. I see in the audience senator dick durbin. He was with a group of senators that i left the middle east. I told senator durbin and others at the time that they were going to have an opportunity to meet demand that i had such a deep respect and admiration for. In fact no one has been more inspirational to me than demand that we honor today. We still talk about that meeting that we had with shimon peres and the view that he had of the world. But is it any wonder i think so highly of this man seven decades of Public Service should be an inspiration to us all and it is. We have heard his tenure of service in 50 year
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