Guest on in depth to take your calls on goveren and legal reform in america. Heas written six books including the collapse of the common good, life without lawyers, and his bestseller the death of common sense. His latest book not accountable is a critique of publicsector unions. Joined a live conversation with attorney and author Philip Howard sunday at noon eastern on booktv on cspan2. Senators Amy Klobuchar and rob portman have been awarded the madison prize for constitutional excellence from American University school of Public Affairs for their bipartisan cooperation on capitol hill. Following the awards ceremony both senators spoke indepth about their experiences working across the aisle to pass legislation. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome everyone. Thank you for being with us this evening. I am vicky wilkins, the dean of the school ofth Public Affairs t American University, and i am pleased to welcome me to tonight madison prize for constitutional exc
President wants at that do today. He heralded a Capitol Hill Police, took what was an already awful situation and prevented it from coming much more and saving potential carnage there. The request to arm our congressman and women, maybe all should be allowed to carry weapons or at least have protection. There is back and forth on that the day after all of this. Meantime, were keeping what ensues with the selloff particularly in technology. You wouldnt know it with the dow down all of 24 points but this is concentrated beneath the surface with Technology Stocks resumed their rout couple days ago here. If we go through some of the Big Technology names here that are back to a big selloff here, on that, despite the fact that yesterday there was sort of a breather for a while, what people thought. You will have to take my word for it. We will show you these stocks. But for now, technology is still getting sold off. All right, as we go through these names here, that continue to slide off of
That seems to be something we could fix. These are fulltime positions. They were off moving to a fulltime position. These are fulltime, very demanding tough positions, but they are not at a level that they were asked before. Okay. Thank you. And is it typical for all to be directly even when they volunteer for position, and im sorry you may have covered this country is about im curious about the direct assignment compared to volunteering. Though, scs can be volunteer or directed. I dont believe that weve ever directed somebody inside out eba. I think thats something we need to change. I think that our ro directors, part of the problem is they remain in position for too long. I think they should be like general officers in the army where they dont spend ten, 20, 30 years at one location had become too comfortable. I dont think that is a good thing coming and that we should use our ability to move people around a little bit more often. Think you. Ms. Holliday, im curious to me and you ma
Didnt find a whole lot in terms of studies that have looked at these things. Theres a lot of studies that talk about computer assisted and used to design a program that could be effective. What criteria is success . Well, first of all i think it was successful in that we did achieve what Congress Actually asked us to do in 1996, make sure that it was no inequality in terms of, you know, highincome areas having classrooms connected and lowincome areas not. By the way, in the early phase, not sure that will be true of the reform of the erate, but there certainly were studies that suggested that the erate in the years 97 through 2002 i think actually helped drive an upgrade to broadband in those areas where you had erate finding. It was kind of an anchor institution that drove greater connectivity. Look, i appreciate that. I think if you look at the weight of all the evidence that came in from various groups, and you can say they are biased, support for reform of the program to have wifi