Herbal life story started on this show, at this post, january 25, 2013 when bill ackland and carl icahn brawled on live tv. Herbal life, we simply provide to the public full transparency on this investment, 330 slides in detail, not scaring people, but going through the facts about the company. Okay . We exhausted research over a year and a half. Could have fooled me. Well be proven right or proven wrong. And i believe goes out, has 300 people in a room. I wouldnt care if it was anybody else was ackman. Goes in a room, gets 300 people, tells how bad the economy is. Did it in the 90s. Scare the hell out of people. Well, icahn, already herbal lifes shareholder certainly looking good today. Stock up more than 50 since the billionaire brawl. The settlement also gives icahn the ability to increase his stake in the company to nearly 35 . He says, i have always believed in herbal life strong fundamentals, and pleased the board decided to increase my nership limit. While ackman, who famously p
David, its great to be with you. Thanks for making time to talk about your book american underdog. [inaudible] [laughter] im eager to talk to you about this because i enjoyed it as you can tell ive got dogeared pages. As you know, i worked in the house of representatives as a staffer to the former free markets professor and dick armey had a big impact on the house and the underpinning that the congress did in the 90s and we talked about this and here you are coming to former freemarket economics professor, still a professor but in the house of representatives. I followed his work and all the guys like him. They had been role models for me. You cant put free economic values together into your politics. Host that his wife was so fascinated about because the book is as you talk about this emphasis of ethics and economics, Public Service and the fact is he has a lot of people came to know you in your surprise victory as a House Majority leader you were the only person in the house to be th
And worked on kennedys campaign. All of these people help make me the people that i am today. Youve a lot of people here at the National Book festival watching it right now. A bunch of young people here as well. What do you tell them . Their parents want to know. Thank you for being here. Stay in school get the best possible education that you can get be helpful, be optimistic and be happy. Dont get lost in the sea of despair. Here is the book. As the illustrator. Nominated a frat National Book award. This is again a book three representative lewis has written to others in graphic novel form. For longer conversation with congressman lewis. They sat down with him for three hours on her our indepth program. If you go to our website type and representative john lewis include the word book otherwise you will get all sorts of videos from the sea stand archives we sat down for three hours. You can put them together, you can put freemarket economics and your values together and your politics
Federal prisons. Thats live tuesday at 10 00 eastern here on c span 3. Millennials and their role in todays economy was the topic of a republican policy meeting on capitol hill. The task force is chaired by Elise Stefanik who at the age of 31 is the youngest member of congress. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. The House Republican policy meeting task force on millennials will now come to order. The committee is meeting today to discuss the essential role of mill epials in todays economy. And though were meeting on that important topic, couldnt start todays hearing without mentioning that our hearts and minds are with the people of paris today as they deal with the horrible tragedy over the weekend. We want them to know that we hurt as they hurt. And we all understand together that we have to be united in standing up to these terrorist thugs threatening our waive rife and ultimately douefeating them. I will recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to thank everyone for com
I think that the court has upheld such broad delegations that principle is simple a term it invokes. It doesnt have meaningful bite. Where i think the courts do Police Delegation is in terms of how they read statutes. In terms of whether or not its sub constitutional. Its statutory interpretation and Administrative Law when they subject something to more search and e review and require reasoned explanation thats in part to make up for the lack of the congressional delegation. And thats where i think the courts should play a role because thats where the most effective. Im very sympathetic to your vision of the collective congress as a matter of policy, but i heard you to be making not just a policy argument, but also an argument from constitutional structure. And i wonder what do you make of the fact that the constitution isnt more clear about this and that it does speak about the speaker of the house and the president of the senate. And it does speak of officers of these houses and giv