Good afternoon and welcome to the Cato Institute. Im the director of the center for constitutional studies and your host for this event. I want also to welcome the cspan audience and those of us those who are looking at the event on cato Live Streaming in the archives. We are here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the modern Business Corporation pursuant to statutory and constitutional law. More immediately, we are here also to mark the publication of the new book on the subject from religious liberties for corporations and i note the title ends with a question. In the the book our two main speakers today, ilya shapior and david gans discuss hobby lobby and the blockbuster decision of the Supreme Court handed down at the end of its last term which rejected the obamacare regulations that provide employers sponsored healthcare plans to provide, which required employersponsored healthcare plans to provide free contraceptive coverage. Its base
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Western countries to the economy of ukraine is the most important thing. Thats not my responsibility. But i just wanted to say, i think thats the most important thing. We are supplying military assistance to the ukrainian military. The president just made an announcement about a week ago about military assistance and a number of categories, vehicles and so forth that i think will be of material assistance to the ukrainian military. There are also under consideration and, yes, it is under consideration some additional categories of assistance which are defensive lethal assistance and those are being considered. I think they should be considered. And ive said that before. But it is a complicated decision that involves other kinds of assistance that were giving and the paramount fact which is that we need to support the ukrainians politically and economically and in particular our nato partners and our european allies need to support ukraine economically. In the end, thats the key to keep
We want to know what you have to say. The numbers are on the screen. You can also send us a tweet. Or you can go to facebook and send us also an email. We begin with the front page of the New York Times in their true stories on what police said yes on what the Justice Department said yesterday. The second story calls for reforms from the Justice Department. And the New York Times reporting on wednesday we begin with eric holder yesterday, the attorney general, at the Justice Department outlining this report. [video clip] records show a really disturbing history of unnecessary force against people with mental illness. The overwhelming majority of force, almost 90 , is directed against africanamericans. This deeply alarming statistic points to one of the most pernicious aspects that our investigation uncovered, that these policing practices disproportionately harm africanamerican residents. In fact, our view of the evidence found no alternative explanation for the disproportionate impact
Defense budget and addressed sequestration and budget challenges posed by syria, r ussia, and iran. This runs about one hour and 50 minutes. If the committee will please come to order. Today, our subcommittee on defense appropriations reviews the budget request of the department of defense. We are very pleased to welcome secretary of defense Ashton Carter and chairman of the joint chief of staff general Martin Dempsey of the United States army. This is our final schedule hearing of the year on the 2016 Defense Budget request. The subcommittee recognizes the uncertainty of the current fiscal environment and the impact it has only department of defense in its planning. We also appreciate the complexity of building the first year 2016 budget request and we look forward to comments from secretary carter and general dempsey on how we can support our men and women in uniform and our National Security interests. We are pleased to recognize dr. Carter on his first appearance before the subcomm