Good morning. This hearing on the subcommittee on readiness and management support will come to order. Today this subcommittee meets to receive the testimony from deputy secretary of defense David Norquist concerning the department of defense 2018 and 2019 audits. Last year when he was serving as the dod comptroller, secretary norquist completed the first dod audit ever. Soon thereafter secretary norquist was nominated and then confirm as deputy secretary of defense, withh Overwhelming Senate support from both sides of the aisle. He is a welcome wealth of knowledge on these issues and i thank you for being here today. To a lot of people, aside from a good friend senator perdue, who im hopeful will be here a little bit later, the dod audit might not come across as the most interesting topics in the world. However, Ranking Member kaine and i taket her oversight responsibility serious and are happy to havee this important d timely hearing. Another responsively take circe is one in providi
Weve explained in our motion the District Court committed at least two serious errors of law in granting the request. Start with the it is the case, however, that we agreed with the District Court on the irreparable harm is not that important. Our contention in this case we thought that we would like to [inaudible] i agree with you that we have to show that dont agree we dont have that that the disclosure of grand jury information from a massive criminal investigation that concluded only eight months ago, there are only 25 pending criminal matters that come out of that proceedings. There are 2800 criminal grand jury subpoenas in connection directly to the material thats exactly the yes, and thats the point on our second argument that thats the committees burden to demonstrate that. Well, i suggest that the courts findings plus special counsel supports volume two, plus, what the said in the supplemental statements during oral arguments seems to specify why it thinks certain material is
Elena kagan speaks about the american legal system, her life and career and the polarization of the confirmation process for Supreme Court justices. From George Mason University earlier this month this portion is just over an hour. Students guests, president helton, Justice Kagan, friends and family of Roger Wilkins. It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the Second Annual Roger Wilkins lecture. Which this year takes the form of a conversation of Supreme Court justice elina kagan. My name is matt shearer im associate professor of policy and government in this our school and director of the undergraduate program and philosophy and politics and economics the eb for short at george mason. The program is honored to be theinstitutional sponsor and host of the Roger Wilkins lecture. We are grateful for the trust and support place in us by the university andby the friends and family of Roger Wilkins. Whats the connection between our pbe program and these lectures . Im glad you asked. I spent
Men whosts and the supported them as part of a series of events related to our Current Special exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. Partners are here tonight and we thank them for their support. Our special exhibit, rightfully hers, tells the story of the woman struggle for Voting Rights. Women activists had to win allies among men in influential positions. It was men who sat in state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19 amendment, whose centennial we celebrate. Opened,htfully hers guests were offered a yellow rose pin when they entered. That was won by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. Not to theests, this role that men played came as a surprise. Tonight we will take a look at theirffragists and contributions to the voting right struggle. Its my pleasure to welcome nancy tate, she has served as womens votef the Centennial Initiative and is also on the board of the turning point suffragists memorial. She served as the executive director of the
Appreciate it its been very warm. Its been a terrific field as you all know. Marvelously talented in many cases friends in every one of those great Public Servants and im hoping to have the chance to compete in every state and speak to every voter. We were delighted that in the first couple of hours of our white website going up we had people identify themselves from every one of the 50 states and we look forward to leveraging that kind of engagement through the primaries so im glad to be here and thank you for taking the early does i think im going to speak and you will all be ready to end your day i think. Questions . [inaudible] how do you navigate a field this large especially comingin late . A lot of people are voting. Im not going to get into the strategy buti can tell you two things. I would have come in a year ago and that was the plan, two weeks or so before we were ready to launch and i think some of you, my wife was diagnosed with uterine cancer and im really grateful to be