[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this full Committee Nomination hearing will come to order. This morning the committee will consider four nominations the key transportation positions within our jurisdiction. Nominees before us today are eric soskin, the nominee to be Inspector General for the department of transportation. Robert primus who is been nominated to be a member of the Surface Transportation Board. Sarah feinberg, nominated to be director of the amtrak board of directors, and chris coons was been nominated to be a direct of the amtrak board of directors. The Inspector General for the part of transportation overseas critical audits and investigations of dots programs with the end goal of ensuring that our National Transportation system is safe, efficient, and effective for the american people. Eric soskin the numbered for the some portable. Mr. Soskin is a senior trial counsel in the federal Programs Branch at the u. S. Department of justice where he h has s
In 1848, a convention was held in seneca falls, new york to state womens rights. The gathering was seen at the beginning of the womens Suffrage Movement, however, it took until 1920, over 72 years later for women to earn the right to vote. During those years, would formns creating a national movement, yet it was women in every community who led the effort in their towns and states to demand through the work of cspans cities tour, we will introduce you to some of these women who dedicated their lives to this cause. To aa Newspaper Agency woman for protesting on the white house lawn. You will learn how western territories were on the leading edge of the movement and you will hear how a letter from a mother to her sun would lead to the ratification of the 19th amendment, giving women the right of au pair we begin syracuse, new york, where an author talks about one of the movements lesserknown figures. Lucretia mott is the most important female white abolitionists and one of the most impor
The Obama Administration. He spoke at the annual Aspen Institute security forum. Welcome back to the aspen security forum. Going to have a session with my friend tony blanken called foreignpolicy choices for 2021. Introduce both of our panelists. Tony doesnt need an introductionto most people for watching. We became friends and worked together long ago. President clinton at the National Security council had a very distinguished career in public service. As many of you know he was staff director for the Us Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Obama Administration and those eight years he was assistant to president obama and Principal Deputy National Security adviser. It was National Security advisor to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama and Vice President biden. Is now senior Foreign Policy advisor to Vice President biden in the Biden Campaign and its great to have tony blanken with us and hes going to be interviewed by jerry side, executive edi
After that, the french and spanish ambassadors on threats to europe, and then president ial candidate jeb bush out his foreignpolicy plan. Announcer now, from the 2015 Aspen Institute security form, a conference that features top officials in cyber security, counterterrorism, and other fields. This panel is one hour. Host good afternoon, everyone. Hopefully, we can get everybody back from lunch. Is chris young. Imb Senior Vice President and general manager for intel security business. Ase of you may also know us mcafee. Our next panel, the role of law and Law Enforcement in securing our nation. And in the Justice Department and the cia, we really have two of the governments that are most engaged in preventing terrorism from attacking the homeland, but the challenge of security the homeland has grown, and so has public me of some components of that effort, including surveillance and detention of suspects. This panel is going to be fromated by ken dilanian the associated press. Before hi
Infantry units against their . Ill, as we do men about 30 of infantrymen did not volunteer for combat. Its an entirely different discussion. Equalare going to have opportunity, society, instead saying every man for himself on a sinking ship, that is a discussion we ought to have. It lets us think about women in very dangerous roles. That is my sense of it at this point. Im not in a position to do anything about it. I know that the decisions will 2016. E during a january that last question to send us home. Create invasion of iraq isis . Create, technically no. Was before theq invasion in 2002. Did it intensify the growth of al qaeda in iraq after 2003 . That it did. It expanded the sunni insurgency. Ve forward to the irserise of isil after al qaedad iraq with largely defeated, it is largely a creation of the Syrian Civil War in the sanctuary. A lot of them operated from there during the iraq war. Al qaeda in iraq is not just al qaeda jihadists and former Iraqi Military officers and othe