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About taking care of myself to expand railroad horizons but the one book that totally changed my way of thinking of myself. Hello everyone. Thank you for being here today for this lunch. I am a senior fellow here at the Manhattan Institute. Our speaker today is the founder and editor of National Affairs magazine. Its a real privilege for me to introduce him today. He is and ask standing mentor role model to younger scholars such as myself and really all you need to know about him is that he has the wisdom not to use twitter. I should probably say more about him than he doesnt tweet so, more relevant today, he is better than anyone in america at defining what conservatism means, showing its relevance to modern society and applying its principles to the challenges of today. Now he has written a book doing just that, the fractured republic renewing americas social contract and the age of individualism. I think this book is an extraordinary accomplishment just as a diagnosis of our society
I give a little bit about the agenda. I know were going to havet then several debates in this committee on the floor of the subject. Todays was through the meeting because i did not know we have been scheduled for 1130 i would like to finish but 1140. That where we all get a chance to vote. But anyway, we have several bills on the agenda for the 1st time as well as for nominees, three of those are right for a vote. Last week but moving those out of committee. We know we had difficulties between the two parties on that issue. I went over that. The we will hold over the thgislation on one nominee vote on the other three. It has been a lot of discussion about the Supreme Court vacancy last couple weeks. The record is clear about how the senate approachesup vacancies that arise. I spoke at length on the floor about these issues. Y i thought i would spend a few minutes reviewing where we are in dispelling some of the myths that i have heard repeated a number of times. The most appropriate p