Llima posting you in our building but please, yes six sits down. We are doing renovations. We hope that in a couple of years when you come back you will be able to drink the water and not worry about your health. The building is undergoing renovations but its great to welcome you here and far end mostly far. I know you are a little sleepy. We are so blessed to have your presence with us today. Thank you. In the spirit and strength the strength of the Obama Administration to the country the opportunity for all 566 federally recognized to come together to have a facetoface meeting with members of the president cabinet and Vice President. And i will tell you there is a lot of work that goes into preparing this. So before i see a few more thoughts but i would like to do is recognize a few people that have been amazing. Jody does incredible work alongside us and her partner at the white house the associate director for Intergovernmental Affairs lets give the white house folks a round of app
Agree more. We hope the congress will enact a new authorization based upon the principles that we are outlining here today. I want to thank you mr. President , and i hope that our colleagues will take this seriously and hopefully we can turn this mess around. With that, i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Hatch mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from utah. Mr. Hatch i suggest the quorum call be suspended. The presiding officer without objection. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. The clerk nomination. Executive office of the president , michael p. Botticelli of the District Of Columbia to be director of the National Drug control policy. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be 30 minutes of debate equally divided. Mr. Hatch i notice the absence of a quorum. T
Obviously see is a distractor question. There is nothing relevant there obviously. Obviously. A and b are plausible. Either of those actually make sense. If you are confused, just Google Google them and they we will make more sense to you shortly. In all in all seriousness we all know probably everyone in this room has taken a test a standardized test at one point or another. There nothing new. Theyve been around for a long time but it seems like were living in a moment where the stakes attached to tests have never been higher. Not only do standardized tests determine a childs future in many cases but they can determine the future of the teacher working with that child the future of principals and administrators the guidance counselor, the gym teacher, the music teacher, the teacher, the art teacher everybodys fate, sometimes the whole schools fate can be bound up with the results of a test or even the fate of all districts. What districts. What is interesting about this moment is that
Development for former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano whos now in my home state and prior to that served in a variety of roles of president clintons administration. Wellcome welcome, anna. Thanks. [ applause ] so i thought we would start with the heart of the matter. Which is by asking each of you to reflect just a little bit on your career path and talk about how growing up here in arizona in the west created opportunities for you and helped to shame who you are. Justice oconnor, would you like to start . I cant imagine having grown up any place else except the southwest. I am actually a ranch girl. I grew up on a cattle ranch on the arizona and new mexico border along the hila river. Thats about as remote if you can get if you were thinking of the u. S. Supreme court, you wouldnt be thinking about it from that ranch. We called it the lazy b because the brand was a capital b lying down which made it lazy. Thats where i grew up. And it started out there by my grandfather day in in a
Overtime to see if it changes. There is no doubt about that. Final thoughts . Thank you for your willingness to engage any discourse. There are important issues to us and we are able to do this today without yelling and screaming at each other or pointing at each other and making acquisitions accusations against each other. We have to as a nation come to grips with what is the balance here and there is going to be a lot of different perspectives out there. I understand that. Be grateful that you live in a nation that is willing to have this kind of dialogue. That is a good thing for us. Are there tensions along the way . Yes. Its not unique to cyber and its not the first time we had challenges have challenges like this and it wont be the last. But if we are willing to sit down and have a conversation we can move where we want to be. [applause] please remain seated until wrapping up. If you missed any of the conference you will be able to watch it in its entirety on the website cspan. O